FarmerChas
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Hello all. I'm new. I'm trying to help my brother who purchased two of the DC Solar Trailers. One has a generator, the other does not. Both seem to work ok. His goal is to have emergency backup power, but to also get a little bit of something day-to-day.
We've got one trailer hooked up to provide power to a subpanel in the home that was wired to accept a backup generator. Standard switch over from line to generator for essential circuits. This seems to be working.
My question is, has anyone ever tried to connect two trailers together to double the output? It looks like I could do a 4 unit, 2 phase set up with 3 of the Sunny Islands set as slaves. I'm not sure how well that is going to work with two separate battery banks, one on each trailer. I think the master unit is the only one that would look at state of charge. Any ideas on how to most easily merge the batteries, panels, etc, into a single parallel unit?
Thanks
We've got one trailer hooked up to provide power to a subpanel in the home that was wired to accept a backup generator. Standard switch over from line to generator for essential circuits. This seems to be working.
My question is, has anyone ever tried to connect two trailers together to double the output? It looks like I could do a 4 unit, 2 phase set up with 3 of the Sunny Islands set as slaves. I'm not sure how well that is going to work with two separate battery banks, one on each trailer. I think the master unit is the only one that would look at state of charge. Any ideas on how to most easily merge the batteries, panels, etc, into a single parallel unit?
Thanks