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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A solar controller can't tell the SOC of a battery. It only knows what the solar is doing. There is probably nothing wrong with your controller as such.
To know what the battery has going in and out from everything, you need a monitor like the Trimetric with the shunt having everything across it, including the solar and the inverter, plus the usual things like furnace, lights , fans , etc.
Even then, deriving SOC from the information is an art rather than a science. You need to cross-check a couple of different things like AH count vs voltage to see if they match in order not to be misled by only one info source.
To know what the battery has going in and out from everything, you need a monitor like the Trimetric with the shunt having everything across it, including the solar and the inverter, plus the usual things like furnace, lights , fans , etc.
Even then, deriving SOC from the information is an art rather than a science. You need to cross-check a couple of different things like AH count vs voltage to see if they match in order not to be misled by only one info source.
