Good afternoon all,
I recently bought a PIP1012LV-MK unit and a 200AH CHINS battery off Amazon. I got a chance to hook it all up and set it up. However it is acting fairly strangely and not at all like my other MPP Solar unit with is a 24V system with a BigBattery.com unit. Basicaly what I am seeing is that the battery voltage seems to be jumping all over the place, the charger is firing up and charging for a few seconds and then shuts off and then starts up again as the battery voltage begins to drop quickly.
I thought maybe the battery is bad but I unplug AC power and it powers the load consistently with what I would expect it to be able to do. When I restore AC power the MPP unit charges the battery consistently without the short cycling it seems to do as it gets near "full."
Is this normal behavior or have I got something set wrong or do I have a bad battery? I am still new to this stuff and am unsure what to check or where to look next. Thanks in advance.
I recently bought a PIP1012LV-MK unit and a 200AH CHINS battery off Amazon. I got a chance to hook it all up and set it up. However it is acting fairly strangely and not at all like my other MPP Solar unit with is a 24V system with a BigBattery.com unit. Basicaly what I am seeing is that the battery voltage seems to be jumping all over the place, the charger is firing up and charging for a few seconds and then shuts off and then starts up again as the battery voltage begins to drop quickly.
I thought maybe the battery is bad but I unplug AC power and it powers the load consistently with what I would expect it to be able to do. When I restore AC power the MPP unit charges the battery consistently without the short cycling it seems to do as it gets near "full."
Is this normal behavior or have I got something set wrong or do I have a bad battery? I am still new to this stuff and am unsure what to check or where to look next. Thanks in advance.