Electrical - smoked up the cabin
I need a starting point. A couple weeks ago we were camping - battery went low so hooked up the generator. Ran for some time then I got a wife of hot wires. Turned off the generator - finished our ...
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BigWapiti wrote:
Thanks again for the reply,
18v from the solar panels, sure (yes, that seems low) - but from the solar controller to the battery? 18v seems like it might cook a battery? Hence, maybe, the low water levels in my less than year old battery?
If the voltage from the controller to the battery is 18v, yes that is too high. You should get no more than 14.4v or 14.6v, tops, to the batteries. I wonder if you fried the solar controller when you wired the battery backwards.
