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In a message dated 11/6/01 12:14:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
>
> Why do you have two house banks? My experience has been that you should
put
> them in parallel and give yourself the maximum capacity. That way you
don't
> have to remember which bank has what charge in it, and on average the depth
> of discharge will be less which leads to better battery life. If you
> parallel them, you won't need a second combiner and you can leave the two
> "bank" leads from your charger both connected to the single house bank.
> This doesn't "defeat" the charger, they will work together on the same
bank.
> You can achieve all this by leaving the switch permanently on ALL so
> everything will be fully automatic.
>
> Colin Foster,
>
I agree with Colin.
Norm
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