-> KH> Thanks for your help. I'm probably going to go ahead and ask the
-> landlord KH> if I can put up a few small panels and see what else I
-> can learn.
-> I use just two small panels- one on a tree trunk dedicated to a garde
-> and the other on the roof of the garden shed. Was surprised to find t
-> "dark" current ie leakage out of the battery at night, was
-> significant [I forget how many mA].
->
-> Probably OK in summer, but not good for the winter period of low
-> panel output.
-> So I connected a permanent diode in a lead from each of the panels.
-> Problem solved.
But you lost the .7 volt drop across the diode in the process...
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