Repaired Samlex inverter not working at night
Howdy, All! We just started full-time RVing a few months ago and installed two solar panels along with all the peripheral gadgets that go into a solar system. Our 3000watt Samlex inverter was repaire...
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Hello, All!
Thanks a million times over for all the responses! What a wonderful community! After some deliberation, we think we went overboard the first day of hook-up to the repaired inverter and ran everything we could in testing it. The batteries drained to nothing, and now we are trying to just let them recharge fully before we try putting much load on them at all. What we have discovered is that our charge controller is not very trustworthy. We have a bank of 6 batteries, and we have noticed lately (since draining the batteries) that the controller reads 43% one second and then 90% the next or vice-versa. What seems curious is how this controller knows we have 6 batteries and not just one. So, we are saving to buy a more informative and programmable controller.
Again, we are new to this stuff. I thank you all for the help. I didn't know our inverter was considered so big at 3000Watts! And, we do have the inverter connected directly to the batteries and then to the monitor and charge controller. If anyone out there disagrees with our guess that we just let the batteries drain too low, and have been continuing to put too much load on them, please let us know!
Maybe one day, we will be able to help someone with solar system issues…
Thanks a million times over for all the responses! What a wonderful community! After some deliberation, we think we went overboard the first day of hook-up to the repaired inverter and ran everything we could in testing it. The batteries drained to nothing, and now we are trying to just let them recharge fully before we try putting much load on them at all. What we have discovered is that our charge controller is not very trustworthy. We have a bank of 6 batteries, and we have noticed lately (since draining the batteries) that the controller reads 43% one second and then 90% the next or vice-versa. What seems curious is how this controller knows we have 6 batteries and not just one. So, we are saving to buy a more informative and programmable controller.
Again, we are new to this stuff. I thank you all for the help. I didn't know our inverter was considered so big at 3000Watts! And, we do have the inverter connected directly to the batteries and then to the monitor and charge controller. If anyone out there disagrees with our guess that we just let the batteries drain too low, and have been continuing to put too much load on them, please let us know!
Maybe one day, we will be able to help someone with solar system issues…
