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?
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
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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.
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.
so I turned it up the right way 
