BFL13 wrote:
I do not understand how you got the bank to accept 80 amps at 94% SOC.
Ditto this statement for me. When my 225 AH bank is at 94% I don't think it will pull even 10 amps at 14.4 volts for more than the first minute. I "love" my battery monitor but the more I cross-check it with other data, the more I think that determining SOC is closer to black magic than science. When I did the discharge for the recent test, the battery monitor said I was at 48% SOC, while the voltage/temperature readings said I was at 33%. When recharging, the battery monitor said I was at 100% while the battery was still pulling over 5 amps, so I know that's not right. I wish now I would have used the hydrometer on the discharged battery, which I assume would have given a 3rd different reading. The battery monitor supposedly corrects based on the discharge and charge rates. This must be a pretty inexact science.