solar options
Last summer I had a 240 watt kit(from Solar Blvd.) Installed on our MH. It has two 120 watt panels feeding a 20 amp charge controller. I recently had the two stock 12 volt marine house batteries rep...
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chloe's ranch wrote:
I checked online and the Phocos factory boost set point is 14.5 for two hours. I did not see that you could change that setting.
14.5 is not bad. You can work with that ok. Since solar does not often fully recharge the batts anyway, maybe getting to 97% SOC on a good day, you have to do some sort of overcharge every month or so to get the batts to 100% anyway. So it doesn't matter if you only get to 14.5 instead of 14.8----as long as you do your monthly 100% overcharge.
You can do that by going "panel direct" on solar (by-passing the controller) or with a charger on shore power that can get into the 15s.
That's what I have been doing with my 6s that want 15v to be truly full and my solar controller only went to 14.6 The batts are fine.
I use a VEC1093DBD at home to do their 100% SOC overcharge using the Equalize feature of that charger.
