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Your advice has been taken to heart and followed. You can see that in the was that the rack is now wired. Thank you for all you have contributed to my effort to make this off grid work will. Only thing I can say is that the engineers of the the NOCO battery charger are most likely smarter...

Sorry about all the words. Short and sweet: Your Solar charge controller driven by PV panels will charge your batteries when the sun is out and the batteries need charging. That charge controller is specifically made for your battery bank. Photon Sorcerer Your Solar charge controller(s) will...

Yes, 4 groups, of 2 in series, with the groups wired in parallel. The 4 red cables in the drawing that come to an apex and then connect to the system are now 24", all equal in length. The orange are also 24". There still could be unequal charging, in that, current will find the path of least...

I have even heard from a very knowledgeable person, on this forum, that has tested the use of a grid powered DC supply that has voltage and current characteristics that would emulate PV panels and also meet the input requirements of an MPPT Charge controller. The DC charge power supply would...

No, the 1100 watt microwave was turned on for 3 minutes when there was NO SUN. :) Testing to see what a load would do to the bank. Also needed coffee to warm up a bit. There is a cold front coming in and snow is on the way again. That is why I wanted to get everything buttoned up so...

Yeah, the NOCO is a professional computerized charger that senses the type of battery, the voltage, and tailors the charging rate for the battery. 25a at 24v is the max. I don't think that it will harm my battery bank of 8 100Ah Deep Cycle RV batteries wired in 2s4p. The 3 charge controllers...

Sorry, if I were not living on SS and had a deep pocket of cash to spend, I might have money and time for hobbies. I think men should retire in their 20s when they have the money and strength to do hobbies, and then start working when they are about 30. Then, we could just work till be drop...

Thursday Morning update: * One of the batteries read 11.7v this morning after sitting all night not connected to anything. THE CULPRIT! * I put it on the charger (NOCO GeniusPro50) for 2 hr. The battery read 13.7. I will let it sit and check it again in a bit.

Read again in my post above. 2s4p! This is a quote from that line. "I will rewire it according to the diagram that was given which is basically what I had two series and four parallel " 4 parallel groups of 2 batteries in series. That is how they were wired today before I took the bank...

After all the cables being disconnected for about an hour and a half and the batteries were fully charged when I disconnected them they're all sitting at 13.0 volts with the exception of two which are 13.1 The system is totally down now all the batteries are disconnected from each other and...

It would appear that you are trying to find where the leak of 300mils is going. The inverter is not connected to the system and was not connected all night during the test. I think the thing that I was trying to present was that even with the inverter disconnected from the system, there is...

11:30am PDT update with measurements and thoughts.... It is a mostly cloudy day. Chargers do what they can with what they have. It got really dark with the heavy clouds and the charge current on the system went to 300mils. When outside, I checked the displays on each CC. The readings are as...

I am not convinced that the drain on the batteries is a purely resistive load, which a battery bank resistance would be. What I am seeing in the graph... before the sun came out is a steady current, but a varying voltage. The voltage drop over time was not a straight line. In fact it had a...

That's a good word. When the weather improves. I am hoping for that. with the heavy rain, the snow on the ground is finally gone. It has been deep for about 7 weeks. Maybe I can put the snowblower to bed for the season!

as an update for those looking at the remote VRM, I turned off the only thing drawing current from the batteries. That was the Inverter. I turned it off at 4:28pm PDT. You can see a little glitch to the positive there. It is now 5:18pm PDT and as you can see, only about 700-800 mils of solar...

Yes, I know. As in a previous post i mentioned that this is what I had on hand to get the system up and running before winter. I didn't make it. Actually, it ended being between snow storms. The electronics cabinet is outside, 100ft out in the yard. It only houses that equipment and there...

As seen in this screen shot, the voltage displayed could be determined as a rising voltage within the BULK charge mode. It is also within the range of the FLOAT voltage range. Bulk is pushing regulated current toward the Absorb voltage level. But, since the Consumed Ah is not zero, I have to...

The capacity is 100% at the time that I disconnect the solar from the house each day. That is what the 10 120v circuits in the house use in that 8hr time period. when I know that it will be a strong sunny day, I turn it on early, maybe an hour or 2 before the sun is on the panels, knowing that...

so that you can see where any possible leaks are in the system, the system is not powering the house. The only thing that is now on is the Inverter. I even went outside and disconnected the AP from the inverter and plugged that into the house via an extension cord. So, there are 3 things...

Each of the 8 batteries (Exide Brand) wired (2s4p for 24v system) are 100Ah Deep Cycle 12v RV batteries. Half of them are 1.5years old. The other half are 1yr old. (I had the capacity to charge more batteries so I bought more.) They were purchased new locally. They are sealed maintenance free...

Yes, the bus bars are neutral bus bars from a load center. It is what I had at the time to make it all work, going into winter. They will be replaced in time and when money permits. I realize that 2-3k is a chunk of change to spend on solar. Solar is NOT a viable solution in NW Oregon...

Thanks for the information on the solar setup. much of that data on charging and usage is "Polluted". Ha Ha. When the battery level gets too low I have been putting my battery charger (Grid Powered) on the system so the batteries will not be ruined by discharging too deep. I am using the...

Here are the shunt settings. Thanks for your help in interpreting all this. I see from your profile that you have well over 8000 posts. You must spend a lot of time on here helping people. I would love to spend time chatting, comparing notes, and get everything done when asked. It is just...

I will catch you guys later tomorrow sometime. Thanks for all your hard work and all your suggestions. I'm done for the day. It's dark it's cold and it's snowing like crazy outside and I really don't have much interest in going out there a hundred feet out into the yard to a cabinet that I can't...

Well your avatar says you're a solar saucer So you might be able to find out what that looks like in that picture period obviously that big cable has braided wire and it's too big to go into that bus period so the braids were split into two braids and put into two slots of the bus.

The charge controllers have a negative wire. That wire is connected to the bus that shown in the picture. As you can see in the attached photo the negative clip of the battery charger that is connected to the grid is also connected to the common negative which is on the utility side of the...

Sorry but I don't have a screen that looks like that and so I don't know how to get out of those parameters to list them or change them

OK, looks like I might have the VRM World share set up. ON the dashboard and the advanced screens, you will see that I had the battery charger from the grid connected so that the batteries would be fully charged. At 8:13 am this morning I turned off the grid powered battery charger and the...

More information. In the attached graph from the VRM, how can the system be at 100% if the voltage dips to nearly 23v? See attached chart

When the sun is shining at noon plus or minus, it is not uncommon to see the charge controllers putting out 17-20amps each when the microwave along with all the other lights in the house are on. I have 10 circuits in the house load center that run through a manual transfer switch. Any or all...

I am charging with solar. Here is a description of the system. I have three solar panel racks. Each of the solar panel racks are approximately 600 watts each. Two of the racks have six 100 Watt panels and the third one has two 320 Watt panels. The 600 watt panel racks are wired 3S2P...

Well, it has been about a month since I tested the batteries. If I remember correctly, with the batteries all disconnected from each other, they were about 13.8v plus or minus a tenth. The batteries are configured 2s4p, as you have said. Right now the remote console says the batteries are...

I have a smart shunt in my solar power system to keep track of my batteries. I get alarms from the app saying that the battery voltage is too low. The problem with that is that the shunt is telling me that it's sitting at a state of charge of 96%. Bring up the app and sure enough my battery...

I certainly will not buy any more items from that company. This is one of the problems with buying from amazon any more. Their paradigm shifted from having things and selling things, to totally hosting vendors from all over the world. As you say, companies who are not interested in standing...

Thanks everyone. Looks I have some work cut out for me. Will have to wait till there is better weather since it is in the 30s, raining and snowing these days. One of the racks of 6 panels has mystery black channels zig zaging back and forth across the cells of every panel. I am working with...