My system, and some questions.

[ricklndn]

I'm kinda new to all this, all the information I learned was reading stuff over the internet.

I have 4 12v lifepo4 @ 100ah wired in parallel for 400ah.

My charge controller is a victron 100v 50amp
My charger is victron 25amp
My solar panels are 1400 watts wired in parallel.

I just want to explain first why I have a victron charger, I use this charger to top off my batteries from 7pm till 7am every day.. in ontario this time is the cheapest time to top them up. Having a full charge to start off the early morning works well for me. My hydro bill says I'm using about 0.36 cents a day.. so I must be doing something right, compared to 1.50 a day before this hook up.

I have showed my system in the pictures, just a heads up, that fuse panel behind my batteries is the house fuse panel, and has nothing to do with my solar setup.
I'm sure my setup could use some improvements and I'm open to any thoughts from the members here.

My original question for this post is my settings for both my charge controller, and the victron 25 amp charger, I added some screen shots of my settings, the settings are all default.
Are the default settings the best for my batteries? I want to make sure I get a long life out of the batteries.

 

[rmaddy]

I don't know what your question is but I have a comment about your solar.

You have a 12V battery system. You have a 50A max output current charge controller. Even when the batteries are at 14.2V, charging at 50A is only 710W. You have 1400W of panels. You can only make use of 710W of those 1400W.

You might want to post details about your panels. How many do you have and what are their specs?

Are you dealing with a lot of shading issues? A second SCC might be beneficial to take full advantage of the solar panels that you have.

 

[ricklndn]

I don't know what your question is but I have a comment about your solar.

You have a 12V battery system. You have a 50A max output current charge controller. Even when the batteries are at 14.2V, charging at 50A is only 710W. You have 1400W of panels. You can only make use of 710W of those 1400W.

You might want to post details about your panels. How many do you have and what are their specs?

Are you dealing with a lot of shading issues? A second SCC might be beneficial to take full advantage of the solar panels that you have.

I'm not home right now but I do have a picture posted to this post of the solar panels.
There is 4 panels, the 2 bottom panels are 400 watts each, the 2 top panels are 300 watts each.
And I know for a fact if I wire for 2 charge controllers I would get a faster charge and more watts.. this is a plan I have soon.
You are right the max watts I see is 700 watts in the app.
I get full good sun from 9am till 5pm.. I can move the trailer if needed, but its definitely in a good spot. I can get to a full charge by about 1pm

 

[ricklndn]

I don't know what your question is but I have a comment about your solar.

You have a 12V battery system. You have a 50A max output current charge controller. Even when the batteries are at 14.2V, charging at 50A is only 710W. You have 1400W of panels. You can only make use of 710W of those 1400W.

You might want to post details about your panels. How many do you have and what are their specs?

Are you dealing with a lot of shading issues? A second SCC might be beneficial to take full advantage of the solar panels that you have.

Just thought I would send a screen shot of the charge controller just incase you any of the information is useful

 

[HRTKD]

As rmaddy said, you've maxxed out that solar charge controller. A bigger one, or a second one is the way to go if you need more charging. If you're getting your batteries fully charged during the day then you don't need to make a change.