Battery Percentage Before Charging.
I was wondering what the consensus is on what your AT REST battery level of charge is before you feel you MUST get in on the charger? Understanding percentage may vary depending on type of batteri...
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corvettekent wrote:
This way a shunt based battery meter is so much better than reading battery voltage. When I checked this morning I'm at 81% SOC. My voltage is 12.2.
My batteries started charging when the sun came up.
That is a warning sign that your AH counter needs to be zeroed (when the batts are truly full), or else the 12.2 was a loaded voltage at the time with the furnace running perhaps.
Cross-check the SOC from AH counter with the voltage before solar starts raising the voltage and when nothing much is on early in the morning (so close to resting as it gets when camping) regularly to see when the monitor's AH counter is getting out of whack.
