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jeff cote here from pacific outsystems

uh we've got here a question from a

fellow voter

drew drew asks what would you recommend

to optimize the use of solar panels

when connected to shore power by the way

that's a pretty common question

should i turn off the battery charger

switch and he goes on to ask

disconnect the shore power i'm running

everything i can off 12 volts well jew's

got a common question

as we're adding more and more devices on

board our boats that are enabling us to

recharge our batteries

a lot of us are wondering well isn't

this going to be overcharging bad

batteries could i be adding all these

devices

at the same time and the short answer is

there's nothing to worry about

and the reason why is that all these

devices solar controllers

battery chargers alternators

methanol fuel cell wind turbines are all

voltage regulated devices

so you can have all of them run

concurrently at the same time to a

single battery bank

and that battery bank will not get

overcharged and that's the advantage of

having voltage regulated charging

sources

so drew has nothing to worry about and

it's all good he can have the solar

panels and the shore power

connected at the same time on his boat

so i want to thank everyone for watching

and if you've got fellow questions

uh please send them or post them down

below and

we do this every week and we look

forward to it thanks for watching

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