Originally Posted by
drivesafe
Hi Clint and I am not a fan of DC/DC devices with built in solar regulators.
While they can be useful if you are just connecting unregulated solar panels once in a blue moon, when you go off camping, but when the solar panel is a permanent fixture, then using a DC/DC device as the solar regulator is a waste of an energy resource.
If you have a separate solar regulator, you now have an additional energy source for recharging your battery, which means a shorter recharge time and more charge gained in a given drive time.
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