Bypass / Blocking Diodes
Here is the situation: I have 2 roof top panels (95W GoPower, Imp 5.53, Vmp 17.2) mono and a 100W Windy City (Imp 5.75, Vmp 17.4) poly panel wired in parallel on the roof. No room for more. For l...
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Sam Spade wrote:vermilye wrote:
Everything works as expected until the the controller switches to float while still under full sun at which point the controller output drops to under .5 amps going to the batteries (a pair of Interstate 6V).
And I would say that is exactly as expected too.
What exactly leads you to believe that there IS a problem ??
Switching to float implies that the batteries are "full" and don't need the extra current.
The controller "thinks" the batteries are full (indicates 100%) but the TriMetric battery monitor still shows them down by anywhere from 5 - 10 amp hours. I may be pushing it, but I'd like to be able to get the last few amp hours back in the batteries before dark.
And, why does the current go up when I unplug the portable?
For example, right now at 12:00 the Trimetric says I'm down by 7.82 amp hours & at 96%. The controller is putting out 1.4 amps & 13.6V (float) and says the batteries are at 100%. Unplug the portable, the controller stays at 13.6V but jumps up to 4.1 amps. Why?
