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RKW
Explorer
Nov 01, 2014

Can a solar charge controller act as a battery monitor?

Back in the day I installed a Link 10 battery monitor so I could know exactly what was going into and out of the battery bank while I was boondocking. Fast forward and I now have a new trailer and I'm...
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Almot
Explorer III
Nov 01, 2014
BFL13 wrote:
you cannot get the battery SOC from the AHs "in"

Nobody said you can. My battery SOC by the end of the day is Full, it's that simple :)... It is full because it is full after 6-7 hours floating. These data solar controller would supply, and this is enough, in this case.

If you can't get them to full most days and/or can't keep them in Float while running your afternoon loads, then solar controller is not enough.

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