First off, What’s the system?

To have a decent understanding of my situation, you need to know the updated system. Currently, we have 2, 100watt solar panels, they wire into their own individual switch on 10 gauge wire (switches are nice because you can cut the electricity from a panel when you are working on something on the system, not to be ignored). From there, a junction box (just a fancy word for something that connects wires) of which mine are wired in parallel.

Next, coming from the junction box we wire with 10 gauge into our 50amp 12volt charge controller. The charge controller regulates the voltage coming in from the solar panels to protect the batteries from overcharging, in a nutshell. Some higher priced charge controllers can give you more information about whats going on in your system. From the charge controller, our 10 gauge wires lead to the main battery terminals. These are the wires that charge the battery with energy from the solar panels.

For the batteries, we have three, 12volt 8AH lead acid gel cell batteries and one, 12volt 33AH battery wired in parallel with each other to create a 12 volt 57AH battery bank. From the main terminals of the battery, we have the 500watt 12volt power inverter. As you can see, as you should know, the entire system is DC current; only after the electricity passes the inverter does it change from a rough 12volt DC charge, to a 110volt AC charge.

This is the final schematic, with fuses. Something I didn’t include in my actual setup, though I should’ve.

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