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Can U Help Solve My Skoolie Solar Conundrum?

Sunny mid day here in SW FL and my 750W solar array is only sending 50W to the controller. I have two 206 Ah SOK LiFeP04 batteries wired in parallel, Victron Smart Shunt, Victron 100/50 Mppt.
My 12v Everchill fridge defrosted over night last night (not the first time, but it's only ever happened only on low sun (winter) days with cloud coverage) despite full sun all day yesterday.
One of the attached pictures is the Mppt history bar graph and it shows that 3 days ago the panels produced over 1,000kWh
While yesterday day it only produced 70WH!
To be clear, each one has been full sun days.

What is going in here?! I'm low key freaking out.
Thank you solar community,

Oak
*Correction: "...panels produced over 1000kWh" should be "...produced over 1kWh"
 
I'm confused
Why is today's and yesterday's output 70Wh respectively and the past 28 days are around 1000Kwh
Max wattage achieved from the panels yesterday (history graph) was only 46 Watts compares to the past month where the Wattage spikes at 650+
Is my fridge defective? I've been using it for 2 years + since I bought it new and I keep encountering this defrost situation but I've never to my knowledge seen the panels produce only 70 Wh on a full sunny day.

I hear what you guys are saying but something is not right.
*i meant 1 kWh instead of 1000kWh 😆
 
Looks like you have 2 parallel batteries and have your system positive and negative connected to the same battery. Is it possible the batteries are out of balance with each other and one of the batteries has shut down?
 

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