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They should be connected through a controller. No source of current 
should ever be directly connected to a battery without a controller. A 
controller will measure the voltage in your battery and when it is 
charged it will cut off the current to the battery. At that point it 
will become a "maintainer" and keep the battery maintained at the proper 
level and prevent "sufation." The controller in your converter should 
work exactly the same way. The good controllers use short pulses of 
current on the order of miliseconds (one milisecond = 1/1000 of a 
second) to maintain the batteries instead of cycling off and on. If you 
are overcharging you should check your controller.

An AGM battery (dry cell) will hold up much better than a gel battery 
which will hold up much better than a wet batter (what most people have) 
battery.

Truman

Ann Blankenship wrote:
> We have two solar panels connected to two deep cell batteries on our 
> class A and they work great. HOWEVER, they charge All The Time so you 
> must remember to check the water in your batteries regularly (like 
> monthly and maybe more often in hot weather) or they will dry out. 
> They aren’t cheap to replace either!


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