I have attached a photo of the monitor in our caravan and are looking for advice on what it is telling me. It doesn't make sense.
It shows the batteries (2) have 13.4v charge and is discharging at a rate of 0.7amps even though nothing is turned on. The battery condition indicator bar shows the charge state is low.
The solar regulator shows a feed in rate of 2.2amps.
Why is the monitor showing a discharge of 0.7amp when the regulator is feeding in 2.2amps?
Why does the state of charge bar show a low battery level when it has a charge of 13.4v?
Is it the reg reducing charge as battery is getting close to full charge ? If it's multi / variable charge type ?
rockylizard said
02:38 PM Feb 4, 2016
Gus1949 wrote:
I have attached a photo of the monitor in our caravan and are looking for advice on what it is telling me. It doesn't make sense.
It shows the batteries (2) have 13.4v charge and is discharging at a rate of 0.7amps even though nothing is turned on. The battery condition indicator bar shows the charge state is low.
The solar regulator shows a feed in rate of 2.2amps.
Why is the monitor showing a discharge of 0.7amp when the regulator is feeding in 2.2amps?
Why does the state of charge bar show a low battery level when it has a charge of 13.4v?
Gday...
I fell off the chair trying to look at the pic so I turned it up the right way
Cheers - John
Dougwe said
07:41 PM Feb 4, 2016
An upside down Rocky
KevinC said
08:08 PM Feb 4, 2016
Someone who knows more about these things than I do, told me that the drifter is totally unreliable when it's not connected to 240v. Seems that if you're free camping it's only the voltage reading that works. Maybe the tank readings are OK too. Who knows. Just don't get bent out of shape about it because all the others are as crazy as yours.
Joe50 said
12:44 AM Feb 5, 2016
Maybe the battery monitor needs to be calibrated (or re-calibrated if it's recently been disconnected from the batteries).
Joe
KevinC said
06:46 AM Feb 5, 2016
Just a further note, my state of charge bar will work its way down to zero and stay there until I plug in to mains power again. Takes four or five days but there's no stopping it. Even running off the generator doesn't make it work. Talk to your Jayco dealer for an accurate explanation. It has to do with the algorithm the Drifter uses to estimate consumption. It apparently uses mains voltage as a reference point, and when there's no mains voltage there's no reference point. Simple. (and crazy!)
Those folk who don't have a Drifter unit or who have one but don't free camp, will never understand the issue.
For my part I just ignore it when I'm free camping.
Gus1949 said
08:20 AM Feb 6, 2016
Thank you for your responses. Half an hour after taking the photo the monitor was reading correctly (or more like it should).
I have attached a photo of the monitor in our caravan and are looking for advice on what it is telling me. It doesn't make sense.
It shows the batteries (2) have 13.4v charge and is discharging at a rate of 0.7amps even though nothing is turned on. The battery condition indicator bar shows the charge state is low.
The solar regulator shows a feed in rate of 2.2amps.
Why is the monitor showing a discharge of 0.7amp when the regulator is feeding in 2.2amps?
Why does the state of charge bar show a low battery level when it has a charge of 13.4v?
Gday...
I fell off the chair trying to look at the pic
so I turned it up the right way 
Cheers - John
An upside down Rocky
Joe
Those folk who don't have a Drifter unit or who have one but don't free camp, will never understand the issue.
For my part I just ignore it when I'm free camping.
Thank you for your responses. Half an hour after taking the photo the monitor was reading correctly (or more like it should).