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All good advice for sure. Thanks. Before I start spending cash that I haven't really got on new equipment I'd like to learn why the new controller isn't recognizing the new panel's output that I already have here though? So if anyone has any ideas, please fire away... Cheers, as ever

Cheers Woody. The 2x 100W flexi panels are hooked up to the battery bank via their own, separate SCC (of which I'm only getting a reading of 2.2V from on the MM. Could they be worn out at that sort of reading? They're old and I've never messed with them, but have wondered about their...

If the 265W sticker (for a 60 cell panel) was on the back of a 6 cell panel, then it's not what it says. Yep, that sticker is on the little panel (nothing like a curveball straight off the bat to keep the newby on their toes?!) and I inherited it for free, so no harm done there. It isn't...

Che cheers Hedges. I inherited the panel (albeit new and unused) from a mate and was just going off what it says it is on the rear of the panel. It's not what it says is? It's wired into a cheap controller labeled "MPPT" (but I think we've established that is fanciful,) the + wire into the +...

C cheers Bud. Yep, I've had the MM on 20 and 200V setting (both give consistent readings in relation to the settings) I'll try another MM for sure. I know next to nothing about solar panels and am trying to learn some basics, hence these questions... some one previously mentioned that a 6 cell...

Hi Bud, so far, the same at the panels when disconnected from the SCC as at the SCC when connected. Cheers

Thanks for this Woody, Yep, I get the same voltage (between 3-4V's on midday, English Spring day) at the panel, its connections, and the controller(-s, I've tried a couple) Its just the controller(s) doesn't seem to recognize the panel? Which may well be down to the controller(s) being cheap...

Hi there, thanks for your reply... the voltage of the flexi panels is in a previous photo on this thread - it was 2.2V when the newer 265W single panel was reading around 3.3V at the same time/light of day. The flexi panels are wired into a totally separate controller to the 265W single panel...

And here's the MM and new controller readings of the batteries... I'm putting the 0.3 discrepancy down to the MM being held together by insulation tape and/or the controller being cheap/crap, but for my purposes, the readings are there or thereabouts. I just don't get why the new panel isn't...

And here's the old control panel that the 2x 100W PV's are hooked up to showing 2.2 V's across the PV imputs...

Here's the MM reading across the PV inputs on the new "mttp" controller (same as the reading direct from the new panel) Also showing the controller showing 0.0V from the new panel, which is what's confusing me..,

Okay, so here's the PV's. The new 265W panel closest and the 2x 100W panels behind...

Thanks guys. I also have an existing, older array consisting of 2x 100W flexible panels wired into an older PWM controller and my battery bank which I get a reading of 2.2 V's off the PV inputs at around the same time/light as I get 3ish V's off the new 265W panel, which kinda seems about right...

Yeah, I thought I was in the right ballpark, multimeter wise... it reads the batteries as (currently) around 12.1V, which is the same as both cheap controllers. Basicly, the controller(s) seem to work and the batteries definitely work and the panel gives some reading (around 3vdc on an English...

The same. I'm pretty green when it comes to electrical stuff so could be using the multimeter incorrectly? I've got it set on DCV 200?

Hi all, and thanks for your welcome's and replies. iamrich - you're not far wrong! The tropics it is not... On the standardly overcast with bright sunny interval days of late, I get between 2.5 - 4 V on the multimeter on the controller PV inputs. Snoobler, yep, that looks like the panel. The two...

Hi there, my name's Dave, I'm new here. I live on a narrow boat in the middle of England. I have a bank of 3 x 12V leisure batteries which power my led lights, water pump, inverter (which I very rarely use,) etc. I have inherited a 265W LG MonoX PV which I want to use to help keep my battery...