Off-grid solar + wind in parallel?

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This not very (home) diy but.... I'm in a hobby club which needs 12v batteries charging in the clubhouse for equipment. We've no mains electricity, so use solar panels coupled with solar-suited chargers. With this recent 'nuclear winter' they're not getting charged much so I was wondering about having a wind turbine power source too.
Solar charging isn't something in my breadth of electronics experience, but I have gathered that solar panels and chargers - esp. MPPT - kinda interract with each other for operation/efficiency? So I don't know if a wind turbine can be simply Wire-OR'd into a charger supply, or does it need something intelligent...?
 
I played with solar panels in the 80s on the Falklands, which should with wind their been great, but it was rather disappointing. He got one propriety wind charger, and it was rated at 15 amp, but lucky if you got 3 amps.

I would ask about this on a narrow boat forum as they use them a lot.

What I have found the problem was hinged around was the charge rate of lead-acid compared with lithium batteries. You say 12 volts, so I assume lead acid?
 

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