Here we are at free camp and the sun is shining and the birds are chirping etc. My question is that my drifter control panel shows me a constant charge/discharge of the 2 110AH AGMs.
I suspect the control panel is cycling the batts, however I thought that only happened when connected to 240V!
Is this normal or have I screwed something up?
Safe travels
oldbobsbus said
03:25 PM Oct 10, 2014
I think thats fairly normal for some types of control panels Phil..
so long as your multimeter tells you the batteries are well up there is no problem..
Phil C said
04:25 PM Oct 10, 2014
oldbobsbus wrote:
I think thats fairly normal for some types of control panels Phil..
so long as your multimeter tells you the batteries are well up there is no problem..
Cheers Bob, I had a funny feeling that was the case. Getting terminal volts around 13.8 to 14V on the meter during the cycle. The drifter shows only half the battery charged but Im not too concerned.
Thanks again mate, hope you are all well.
Blue said
06:41 PM Oct 10, 2014
sometimes you can have too much information..
some controllers show you a Good Battery Status on an LCD panel, others are just LED lights
the panel in my caravan shows battery voltage all of the time..
I have to push a separate button to show amps in..
my Blue Sky MPPT solar controller that im testing only has LED lights.. and that's it.. you have to buy another display to plug into it to see the finer detail
Peter_n_Margaret said
08:11 PM Oct 10, 2014
You can not measure battery voltage during charging.
What you will see is the voltage of the charger (solar controller).
Cheers,
Peter
Phil C said
08:27 AM Oct 11, 2014
Peter_n_Margaret wrote:
You can not measure battery voltage during charging. What you will see is the voltage of the charger (solar controller).
Cheers, Peter
Ah Ha, thank you, that answers a number of my questions.. The solar controler is seperate to the drifter but it makes sense that Im reading the solar panel voltage to the batts.
Here we are at free camp and the sun is shining and the birds are chirping etc. My question is that my drifter control panel shows me a constant charge/discharge of the 2 110AH AGMs.
I suspect the control panel is cycling the batts, however I thought that only happened when connected to 240V!
Is this normal or have I screwed something up?
Safe travels
I think thats fairly normal for some types of control panels Phil..
so long as your multimeter tells you the batteries are well up there is no problem..
Cheers Bob, I had a funny feeling that was the case. Getting terminal volts around 13.8 to 14V on the meter during the cycle. The drifter shows only half the battery charged but Im not too concerned.
Thanks again mate, hope you are all well.
some controllers show you a Good Battery Status on an LCD panel, others are just LED lights
the panel in my caravan shows battery voltage all of the time..
I have to push a separate button to show amps in..
my Blue Sky MPPT solar controller that im testing only has LED lights.. and that's it.. you have to buy another display to plug into it to see the finer detail
What you will see is the voltage of the charger (solar controller).
Cheers,
Peter
Ah Ha, thank you, that answers a number of my questions.. The solar controler is seperate to the drifter but it makes sense that Im reading the solar panel voltage to the batts.
Cheers