Battery cutoff with solar
Do you use the battery cutoff if you have solar. I just installed my solar and was wonder if I still need to cutoff the batteries because the solar will keep them charged and the little drain might he...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi Joel,
You may send more amps post controller--but they will be consumed by the load you have placed on the electrical system. So no extra amps will go into the battery. In fact the load may be draining your battery.
Some (good) PWM controllers come with a diversion load feature so that once the battery bank is full the "extra" energy can be sent to (for example) a 12 volt element for the water heater.
Hi, thanks for the clarification.
I missed Almot's point I guess. I, or Ralph really, was just saying that with a big enough load all of the solar panels amp output would make it to the battery, whether or not it was consumed by loads after the battery was of no value, only that current was measurable as you say, post controller.
