Thanks, great idea about the screens in them - I deal with wasp nests around the house every summer and it'd be a rude shock to open the battery box up and find a nest inside!
I went back and forth quite a bit on the 20A vs 40A charger. Ultimately, with the style trailer I have and the camping we've done with it, I know that having access to shore power is uncommon and I wanted the extra charging speed when it was available.
I've got a temperature sensor that I'm...
For anyone else that stumbles across this, it does sense the voltage change to switch. For my use case, without a permanently attached solar panel, there's 0 change that I'll have the solar panel setup while connected to the car.
I've finished the build (it took a bit because I had to have a battery box custom built due to the short length of the trailer's tongue).
Here's what I ended up doing (labeled picture of the battery box attached):
LiTime 12V 230Ah battery - frequently goes on sale, check a site like...
I picked up my brakes controller from eTrailer earlier this week and had a really nice experience with that. I figured that once I knew what I needed and that the system should work, I'd shop around on price for the functionality.
My trailer is a Taxa Woolly Bear that I'm mounting a Thule...
I'm brand new to trailers and solar, and am hoping someone can check my setup so that I'm not about to do something stupid. I've got a Taxa Woolly Bear (2021) that I'm going to expand to a dual battery (parallel) system on. Everything in the trailer is wired for 12V DC - no AC and I'm not...
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