foxing the Blue Sky 3024di

[pianotuna]

Hi,

Today about 2 pm the Blue Sky 3024 di was doing 13.3 and zero amps. I have an external switch so that I can deliberately "trigger" an equalization. As soon as I did voltage reached 15.2 and amps going in were 8.9

There is also a trik-l-start installed and it dropped the voltage down to 14.6 on the chassis battery.

The 8.9 amps is being shared by 8 marine batteries, so it is more or less a trickle charge effect--but it means that the chimney fans and parasitic loads are being run by the solar instead of the battery bank.

Probably only about 4 amps are going into the eight batteries.

Temperature happens to be 25 C (77 f).

[mena661]

pianotuna wrote:
Hi Dale,

The chassis battery is also a marine jar, identical to the others. Interesting idea that pressure will build up from about 500 milliamps of charging. Does anyone have an answer?

Flooded batteries gas so how does any sort of pressure build up?

[pianotuna]

Hi Dale,

The chassis battery is also a marine jar, identical to the others. Interesting idea that pressure will build up from about 500 milliamps of charging. Does anyone have an answer?

gatorcq wrote:
Disconnect the chassis batteries. Not good for them. Pressure will build up

[HiTech]

JiminDenver wrote:
there is a lot to be said for having your daily needs covered so your batteries are nice and charged for the night.

x2 helps the chassis batteries make up for the typical undercharging you often see. Might even save a little gas from the alternator or king less hard.

Jim

[gatorcq]

Disconnect the chassis batteries. Not good for them. Pressure will build up

[JiminDenver]

there is a lot to be said for having your daily needs covered so your batteries are nice and charged for the night.