Charging a Battery Bank
I am planning on upgrading my batteries to 4 6v batteries wired in series and parallel to have a 12v system with plenty of Amp Hours. There is a ton of information on how to wire things up but nothing...
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LY that is the new PowerMax with a hole in the side so you can get at the little pot inside with a small screwdriver like for eyeglass frames. (Second hole is for a switch that changes it from 3 or 1 stage, which is adjustable voltage for that one stage)
Idea is you can use it as a regular 3 stage or as an ADJ as required--very nifty concept, but a little awkward to operate without being right up to it. It only comes with the external knob and voltmeter if you special order that, or just buy the older model with those.
I can't tell from the photo what is what for checking things. Seems he used two red wires from the terminals (ran out of white?) but hard to match the photo to the earlier schematic.
Anyway, OP- with solar and WFCO turned off -just turn on the PM-75 (see the green light is on!) and use the meter to check for voltages starting right on the unit's two terminals, and then at each junction along the way to the batteries looking for the break in the path either on the neg or pos path or both.
Be too easy if it is just no 120v input--no green light--to fix that.
Idea is you can use it as a regular 3 stage or as an ADJ as required--very nifty concept, but a little awkward to operate without being right up to it. It only comes with the external knob and voltmeter if you special order that, or just buy the older model with those.
I can't tell from the photo what is what for checking things. Seems he used two red wires from the terminals (ran out of white?) but hard to match the photo to the earlier schematic.
Anyway, OP- with solar and WFCO turned off -just turn on the PM-75 (see the green light is on!) and use the meter to check for voltages starting right on the unit's two terminals, and then at each junction along the way to the batteries looking for the break in the path either on the neg or pos path or both.
Be too easy if it is just no 120v input--no green light--to fix that.
