Global Charger Output Control on Mate3

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jcheil
jcheil Solar Expert Posts: 722 ✭✭✭
in Advanced Solar Electric Technical Forum #1
I set the Global Charger Output Control to 110A on my Mate3 because that is the maximum I would ever want going into my batteries based on my battery bank size.

However, I don't think it is working. The other day I fired up the generator to do some welding in the middle of the day and my charge current went up to 146amps. 80ish from the solar and 60ish from the inverter/charger. You can see the spike on 12/22/2014 at around 11;42am on my online graphs at the link in my sig. I had never seen it go over 110a before even though my array could potentially produce more than that. Also, I rarely run the generator in the daytime so maybe it has something to do with the inverter/charger current also. I just don't know.

Has anyone else noticed this problem or it is something that I missed in a configuration somewhere?

Jay
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