Confusion on battery charging
I am confused about the best practices for charging batteries. For 7 years I had 300 AH of Lifeline AGM batteries, 270 watts of solar and a simple charging system. My old camper has a 110 volt c...
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- When I had panels on a pull trailer I had three ammeters.
Panel output
Hotel Load
Battery In or Out
:: Panel Voltage before controller::Voltage at batteries:: Battery management is very similar to bookeeping::A successful business knows where every dime is or isn't::For instance my panels could put out 25 smperes. Fine. What is the hotel load?::13 amps? Why? Chop the unneeded load and it will re-direct to battery charge:: See it on the battery ammeter::I don't want to do calculations when I'm trying to relax:: (If this is reading this and that isn't reading so much then by deducing it all means....oh wait wispy clouds could have moved in...)
Let meters do the legwork. WTH nine amps panel output?!?!?
A pelican had taken up residence on my roof.
An ammeter can be used on a charger circuit as well. I'm too lazy to press buttons or scroll through a menu to check on a system. I want to do it all hands-free at a glance.
But then again maybe I'm being too lazy?
