Change-over switch for solar-panels to Starter and House batteries?

[PaulRainbow]

Solar controller is a fit and forget wired direct to batteries.
Alternator wired to 1-2-both doesn't change and is used just as you always have.
You can get more sophisticated, but you don't HAVE to.

You forgot the smiley.

 

[PaulRainbow]

Solar controller is a fit and forget wired direct to batteries.
Alternator wired to 1-2-both doesn't change and is used just as you always have.
You can get more sophisticated, but you don't HAVE to.

Just to be clear, you suggest he replaces his existing controller with a more sophisticated controller, that can't be used with the "Both" setting, rather than fit a VSR, that costs less then the controller and that will actually make things simpler by allowing all charging sources to charge all batteries with no user input and no fiddling of 1-2-B switches ?

Never mind the smiley

 

[LadyInBed]

Just to be clear, you suggest he replaces his existing controller with a more sophisticated controller, that can't be used with the "Both" setting, rather than fit a VSR, that costs less then the controller and that will actually make things simpler by allowing all charging sources to charge all batteries with no user input and no fiddling of 1-2-B switches ?

Never mind the smiley

No I didn't.
Maybe I should have capitalised the 'can'

 

[PaulRainbow]

But any solar installation which can afford the wasted current of a VSR will probably need a controller of some sort.
Plus battery isolators and cables...

So, what's your suggestion for allowing a solar controller to charge both banks, the alternator to charge both banks and for there to be no fiddling with 1-2-B switches ?

As i suspected, plenty of useless mouthing, short on usable ideas.