Recent content by olmz

i have never seen one fault on either of the two I have, ever. but right now I have a new one in there...part of the process of seeing if the panel was an issue, so if there is a fault in a log on the old one, I am unaware of it...but I watch all this pretty closely, fwiw. tnx

i thought i had answered this just now but don't see it. well, the answer was that this is on my list of process of elimination. I am hoping that measuring DC current with the clamp will make that moot, but I get that my list is pretty long until it isn't. also, I sure hope there is no draw...

i did read the link and understand. presently, the batteries are no more than 4 at one time (nor has there been more than 4 throughout this whole matter) and it is clear that the next move is to measure dc current at certain times...and I do now have a clamp based meter to make that test, which...

got it. thank you.

that thought has occurred to me and by process of elimination, I will get there if nothing else manifests itself, too. I do keep coming back to having had no apparent problems with any of 8 batteries and a victron ip65 in terms of fully charging each by iself and determining that no battery...

thank you. I have just purchased a clamp DC meter, am reading the instructions and by this weekend, will have measured this very thing and will report back. thank you.

ok.....let me try to ask this in a way that I can be sure I get it all. first, are you saying that without a shunt, the batteries are not even charging properly or that I am simply being deprived of a better way to measure capacity? next, i certainly do have a few things drawing on the...

Now, that is very interesting. First, I am about to change to CC/CV to see what, if anything that does. I expect to have that done, if not tonight, by tomorrow. I would love for that to be the issue. as to your comment about "wire", would you be so kind as to say "why" you think this. just...

i am looking at the documentation now...and within a day or two, expect to take the measurements and report in. many thanks

thank you kindly. a moderator here ("boondocker") who has been so gracious...as have so many....in guiding me, suggested the same thing, gave me a link for one which he felt would work....making sure it measures both AC AND DC voltages.....I ordered and received it....and am now reading...

sorry...I do not have a shunt kit. have been using voltages/direction from BB to try to run this down.

PS the problem remains whether I use these custom settings as BB directed, or the magnum preset for Lion batteries

sure. they remain at 14.4 for "absorb", 13.6 for "float" and 13.2 for "REbulk". at this "custom" setting group, there is no separate setting for "bulk", but BB says that the bulk and absorb settings should be the same at 14.4 (and as high, I think, as 14.6). at BB's direction, I have, indeed...

so one thing. my previous observation of the panel voltage "settling in" at 13.6 was not actually correct....very sorry...it is clear that this time, anyway, and perhaps this has been the case all along, the voltage at silent, has begun, at least some times, higher than 13.6....this is all...

the panel voltage has already begun to drop in silent mode.....just a few minutes after going *into* silent mode, and with the magnum panel showing 13.9 volts, two batteries, including the one we are paying close attention to, measured 13.8 volts. here we are now...jut a few minutes later...