How To Hook Up A Solar Panel To A Battery

Charge your 12v battery from a solar panel and have your backup powered.

How to hook up a solar panel to a battery.

This connection involves three main steps. However your batteries will not connect straight to your solar panels. Connecting the batteries to the solar panels is not a complicated project. The direct load can be directly powered up through solar power and a charge controller during the sunshine day time and during the shading night the dc load can be powered up using the battery.

They will actually connect to the solar panel regulator and to the inverter. We therefore aim to have alternating current ac as this is more powerful and is what most appliances run on. Always connect your solar panels via a regulator. This will help prevent a fire or battery explosion in the event of a short in the wiring.

They are usually wired in parallel to preserve the voltage of each panel but you can also wire sets of them together in series to increase the voltage to conform to the voltage of the battery bank if need be. Connect the panels of a solar bank together if there are more than one. A complete note on solar panel installation with calculation examples the dc load light fan etc is directly connected to the charge controller and can be fed up by two power sources. After you estimate your daily use set up the battery that you need.

Connect the positive wire from the solar panel to a battery cable with a fusible link between the battery and the solar panel. Connect the negative wire of the solar panel to the negative terminal of the battery. To get this set up we need to understand that the solar panels usually output direct current dc as earlier mentioned. Then connect the regulator to the 12 volt battery.

You will get enough power supply to make connections and use them.