Solar panel and battery noise
Hello all! I am running 2 6VDC deep cycle batteries in series on my travel trailer. I recently bought a 120W solar panel that is for a 12V circuit. I hooked up the solar panel using the charge...
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canicon25 wrote:
Thanks all. Just wanted to bring this up again. I upgraded my charge controller to a Renogy Voyager 10A. The battery was only receiving 4A today (not very sunny out) and I heard the batteries bubbling again. When connected to shore power I don't hear the bubbling. Why is that? Just want to make sure everything is working as it should.
Thank you!
if your charger when connected to shore power is the inFAMOUS WFCO, you will 99.99% of the time get a max charging voltage of 13.6V (a) not enough to ever fully charge the batteries (b) never enough to get the batteries to bubble if the batteries are FLA.
So, if the solar charger is connected correctly it is trying to fully charge the batteries. On a FLA that means getting the voltage up to 14.2-14.6V for a while which will result in the batteries "bubbling"
If by chance your charger is NOT an WFCO, another story.
