Rogue MPPT, 490W and charging mysteries
Now that we were finally all in one place - me, Rogue 3048 and my rig - it was time to have some fun. 1)Battery: old starter, tested beyond dead, plates above the water. No wonder, 8 months in Mex...
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BFL13 wrote:
The controller itself is supposed to go near the batteries, so that often means out of sight from inside the rig.
Some have remote displays to handle that when controller is out of sight. Others have the voltage sense wire to handle that too far from batteries issue so you can have the display on the controller inside. Routing the wires from inside to out where the batteries go is a big issue in some Rvs.
Once all that is solved you have the temp comp issue where some controllers don't have theirs remoted, so the controller with the temp comp on it, has to go out of sight where the batteries are. So they have another wire for the remote temp so the controller can stay inside but now that wire needs a route.
You have to really want to see the display if you want to put up with finding routes for all those wires and having the controller so far from the batteries.
I went with the cheap controller out of sight, close to the batteries, and get my display info from the Trimetric mounted inside (it also has that wire routing problem though.)
With the 3048, you can place wherever you want. There's remote battery temp sensing, remote battery voltage sensing, and a remote display if you need it. :)
The 2024 requires a remote display if you want a display. It was designed to be installed out of the way, more typical of an RV application.
