Calling on Solar Techies
I have been thinking of going solar for some time and decided to pull the plug. My wants are a 400 to 500 watt system. I have four 12 volt batteries with 340ah. I am not planning on changing b...
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BFL13 wrote:
Where did you measure the 12v? You could see that by the batts but it could be 11v at the inverter's input and trigger the alarm or shut off. Measure at the inverter's input terminals.
If the battery with the lower cells is left in the bank, it will drag down the other good batts. You could do better without it. Now you have solar you could get by with a smaller bank in the summer.
I was watching the Meter that I installed through a Shunt in the battery box. The Meter is in the cabin so I could watch it at the same time as operating the microwave.
This might be a two person test next time. Interesting point about removing the weak battery.
