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Have someone check out your controller. They do go bad and it sounds 
like it is either misreading you battery voltage and not detecting when 
it is fully charged or not shutting the current off to the battery. One 
possible problem is there is also a diode in the circuit that connects 
the battery to the voltage meter in the controller. This meter also 
measures the voltage from the panel. If the diode is bad then it will 
allow current to blow back out of that section of the circuit and 
current will always be getting to the battery. A diode only allows 
current to flow in one direction unless they are faulty.

I went through three controllers some time back. The company got a lot 
of bad diodes before they figured it out. They kept replacing a faulty 
unit with another faulty unit. So much for testing before shipping.

Truman

Ann Blankenship wrote:
> Truman sez: They should be connected through a controller..
>
> We do have a control unit in the RV but the batteries still go dry 
> unless you check on them. Our batteries are the kind they put in golf 
> carts, expensive but good. Don’t know about the dry cell ones. We’ll 
> ask next time we need batteries!


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