Solar Controller Battery Draw Amount?
This is a confused sort of post because I am confused. I was trying to get to the minimum amps for knowing when my AGMs were truly full and to do that I tried to get all the other draws down to ne...
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BFL13 wrote:
but I think the requirement to get the charging amps down to 0.5 is with no draw on the batts.
Current only flows one way at a time.
If the applied charging voltage is high enough to make anything flow INTO the batteries, then nothing is flowing OUT at the same time. The charging source is supplying the current for whatever else needs it.
And.....like a lot of other folks, I think you are making this much more difficult than it really IS.
If you actually have a good controller, you can tell if your battery is fully charged or very near to it, just by seeing that the voltage has dropped to it's float level, when other significant loads are not present, that is.
