But I think for the amount of time I would be charging on the road, getting something over 13 volts to the battery in the field will be adequate.

Naturally, if it is possible to keep SAE connectors together as long as possible there will be less wear and tear to reduce pinch and less exposure to corrosive conditions. and the adaptor is very easy to connect your solar panel chargers and the other battery chargers with the SAE connectors. Once the housing is placed on the contact it is difficult to remove so make sure you have the lock ring on the wire first.

My thought is to have a short (less than 2ft) wire coming from the controller on the panels as well as coming off the 12V male plug that connects to the trailer. I can confidently say the installed systems are up to the task and I can now cruise in comfort eight months of the year. Once you've got the two modules connected in series, you need to use MC4 cables to bring that power to wherever your electrical equipment is located (usually a circuit breaker and a solar charge controller). Since I can easily swap the polarity when installing this is not a big issue but I will have to remember the connector/polarity of the cables will be reversed.

If moving sites occurs on an almost daily basis, this is something that will require attention to assure optimum efficiency of the charging system. The SunPower® Maxeon Gen III cells are compact and simply kick out more Volts/Current than all the others on the market today. Our SVB experts explain how to use solar energy on your boat and help you find the right system for your vessel. These seemed like the perfect solution and they appear to be of good quality but I have not installed them yet.Yep, they're occasionally a bit finicky to get apart (and my fingers are definitely getting old) but not enough to make me wish I has something different. Essentially, you've stepped down the number of wires from two positive and two negatives to one positive and one negative.