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Update. Prompted by suggestions from this website as well as other research I was able to conduct I typed out a plan of action to rescue my batteries. Get them charged as per the Rolls website, purchase a bigger controller, buy more panels and get a 240v generator. I put this down on paper and...

Exactly, I was thinking for the short term to adjust the bulk charging pot to 15 as opposed to the 14.2 it is now set at but am a little timid to do that and I do understand that that will not give me the 15v but since I am short on the current anyways.... Don't have the battery charger anymore...

I wish we were grossly overusing them, that way I could retire the flashlights. We do run a rather old 32" TV for about 3 hours a night but otherwise lights are low wattage, reefer and stove are gas. Until we replaced the batteries on 12/19 we were doing just fine with 220AH capacity. With 4...

thanks for that suggestion but I bought one different from the one my solar contractor had let me borrow, used it and it gave the same readings as the solar contractor owned hydrometer and so did yet another one when I dropped and broke my first one (which I also did last year). I might just buy...

I checked while it was equalizing and there was a -1.5v discrepancy between the batteries (with multimeter) and what the Xantrex C-40 was recording. I do not know if this is a function of the equalization or ? Otherwise the batteries track the Charge controller except there is a -0.2...

yes-just finished a predawn SG survey of all 12 cells as well as voltmeter readings on the battery pack. Am enjoying Baja despite this issue

yes-just finished a predawn SG survey of all 12 cells as well as voltmeter readings on the battery pack. Am enjoying Baja despite this issue

We thought we were golden today when the Xantrex C40 charge controller told us that our battery was full (green LED on) and we watched the green LED go through from 1 blink up to 5 blinks fairly rapidly. SG still down though and after sunset the SOC is only 12.4 with no serious draws. We only...

Thanks Rob I will continue to monitor SG and voltages after the batteries rest at night and start a logbook for those values. Would it behoove me to have the generator wired directly into the inverter as opposed to going through a battery charger. The latter approach does not give the inverter...

4 New Rolls L16-HC batteries and new Sun Gold Power 12v inverter. Hooked up by our solar contractor on the 19th Dec and we were happy as this should have given us increased capacity over the Duracell 6v system we inherited with the off grid house here in Baja. Problem is that my assumption was...

Ironic that when I talked to my solar contractor just now he reported that somebody else in the same part of our development (we are all off grid) had exactly the same issue and reported the same result (getting a low reading on a non RMS -I was using RMF off what I heard in the You Tube video)...

T Turns out that the harbor freight multimeter I was using was a non-RMF multimeter and does not give reliable readings off an inverter. I happened to have another multimeter and that one gave a higher reading (105)

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