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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CA Traveler wrote:BFL13 wrote:No unless the house loads are disconnected. All rigs have loads connected to the batteries, it might be small like CO2 detector, etc.
If you have an inverter/charger can you recharge the batts with no load on the batts?
The charger, solar, house loads and battery are all connected together. Charging from any source supplies the loads and what's left if any goes to the battery.
Not sure why you singled out a charger/inverter???
This seems to contradict what Mr Wiz and LY said, but not sure on that.
The Tri measures only what is going on with the battery via the shunt. The confusion I had was about a possible draw at the same time, where we know the Tri does not measure "net" amps. Loads come first, so there is no "net"---it just looks like there is.
The inverter/charger, unlike a converter is not a power supply and the inverter/charger unit cannot operate without being connected to a battery--the pass through 120v does not operate the unit, so I suppose it needs the 12v input to light it up?
So it could be different in that maybe the load does not come first, and the Tri does measure "net" in that case? I am really confused now.
