Bogart Solar Controller...Comments?

grizzzman wrote:

BFL13 wrote:

smkettner wrote:
Bogart will automatically adjust absorption time based on charge level.
This is the largest hurdle in solar or any other charging for that matter.
Bogart controller/monitor should serve you very well.

Yes, ---if it has the charge level right, which is my point at issue.

I love my Tri, but I have to decide what it "really means by what it is saying" based on various things at the time. I don't think the solar controller tied to the Tri can do that.

If the solar controller by itself-- nothing to do with the Tri-- has adjustable voltages and timings, then that can make it superior to others which don't. (Depending on price and how your scenario can take advantage of that to make it "worth it")

My hydrometer disagrees with your statement........

Then you must have things just right.

I do solar from April till October and while not having the new Tri controller, I do have a Tri and an hydrometer. I get good results with various controllers I have had over the time since on solar starting in 2011. My hydrometer says how it is all going from day to day.

My Tri is very good at being an ammeter, voltmeter, and AH counter (but that needs "interpretation" by me depending on the situation)

I totally disagree that 97% = 100% which apparently the Tri guy thinks is it is. Then it has tons of geeky "history" stuff in its geeky program that seems to depend on the accuracy of the 97% = 100% notion in the first place! What a farce! IMO of course---maybe I am too stupid to appreciate all its virtues. Don't know.

It looks to me that the Tri guy has got carried away with his own inner-geek and come out with a "matching" controller, so that controller depends on the Tri to be right and mine sure isn't right a lot of the time (but I know how to allow for that) so how can the controller be so wonderful?

I get the SG up to "baseline" true full despite what the Tri says at the time (and then reset the Tri) and I don't have the magic Tri controller. Anybody can get the job done with a variety of equipment choices as long as he knows what is really going on. You don't need the Tri controller working with the Tri (the blind leading the blind!) to keep your batteries up to speed.