problem with history data on my trimetric 2025

Group 1: H1.1: Cumulative Lifetime Battery (discharging) Amp hours: Displays how many amp- hours have been withdrawn from the battery system over its lifetime. This number starts at 0 when manually reset which would usually be at the time of initial installation of the batteries. See reference to “RESET” button in figure 1 for how to do this. Every time the value of amps is negative (charge is leaving the battery) the display counts "amp- hours" down. But it does not change when battery is charging (amps is positive.) . It analogous to a car odometer to tell how much service the batteries have seen
When the batteries are replaced, this number can be noted measure the total energy which your batteries have delivered in their lifetime, which can be used to evaluate performance of the batteries and the level of care which they received. In case of power interruption to the meter you will only lose a maximum of 3 hours of this data--because this data is automatically stored every 3 hours. This number can be displayed to -999,000 amp hours, which is longer than most battery sets would be expected to last. (Should it ever reach this high it should be reset--since it does not, just roll over to zero by itself after 999,999.)
Often battery life of "deep cycle" batteries is rated by the number of discharge cycles it will undergo without failure--however this usually assumes a fairly complete discharge during each cycle, followed by complete recharge. The life of deep cycle batteries is increased if the discharge depth is less--in fact the number of
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cycles of life is inversely related to the depth of discharge of each cycle--so if you discharge only half the amount during each "cycle" the battery will last about twice as many cycles.
Another way to look at this is that when buying batteries you have a choice whether to double the number of batteries in your battery set—which will reduce the average cycle depth of discharge to one-half. A less deep discharge should result in longer life for the set: but the question is will you get double the life if you did that—which would be required to break even on the additional investment. Typically the life would increase to about double, so there would be little cost benefit. (Of course you’d get more days of autonomy.) . But in a vehicle it would add extra weight. This measurement made by the TriMetric is a way of getting quantatative data on these kinds of questions.
Group 2: H2.x – H6.x Charge/discharge cycle data for last 5 cycles. Each discharge/charge cycle begins at the time the battery is “fully charged” and ends at the next “full charge”—for more precise definition see section 6.2: How the TriMetric keeps track of battery % full. The cycles begin and end exactly at step 3 in that section. Each item below records data for (up to) the five most recent complete cycles.
H2.1 through H2.5: How many hours ago that the cycle in question ended (H2.1 most recent. H2.5 oldest data).
H3.1 through H3.5: Length of the cycle in question, in hours. You can see how much time goes by between full battery charges. Frequently charging them helps keep them from permanently losing capacity. It’s also useful to observe that the TriMetric “charged” setpoints (P1 and P2) are properly set to register the cycles— otherwise the “Battery % full” display will not be correct.
H4.1 through H4.5: Average amps over each cycle in question, which shows how much energy your system wastes over each cycle—hopefully a small number. To get this number, the meter measures the net amount of amp hours from one charge cycle to the next, and divides by the length of cycle in hours. For example if over one cycle it takes 20 more amp hours to recharge the batteries compared with discharging them, and the cycle takes 24 hours, then the average extra amps over that cycle is 20÷24=0.83 amps. A positive number represents the average extra charging amps required to maintain the battery over that one cycle. This gives very useful information about the efficiency of the system. A typical number might be between +.5 and +5.0 amps. If batteries were perfect, and you got out exactly as much energy as you put in during one cycle—and if the cycles were measured exactly, this number would be 0. 00 amps. But typically you lose some energy from self discharge, and also from the beneficial overcharging that occurs when the batteries are being fully charged when the batteries are gassing. If this number is an excessively large positive number, that would indicate possibly that batteries were losing a lot more energy than they should, or also it could indicate that something is not wired up correctly to the shunt, for example a load is not being seen by the TriMetric on the “amps” display. Or if it shows up often or always as a negative number this would also indicate a miswiring to the shunt (charge controller or charger that isn’t getting measured on the amps display, for example.) There should be some consistency in the readings. Although the value is ordinarily positive, they can even occasionally be negative when the temperature of your batteries drops from beginning to ending of a cycle—in this case they will accept less charge at lower temperature to appear “charged”, making them look more efficient than they really are. For the same reason, when the temperature rises over a cycle you should find this number more positive than usual. Also, if you do an equalization cycle the number will be more positive than usual.
H5.1 through H5.5: Minimum voltage during each cycle. This can show if the batteries are being run too low before being recharged.
H6.1-through H6.5: Minimum Battery % full during each cycle. This is another check to see that the batteries are not being run too low before being recharged.
Group 3: H7.x – H8.x. Volts and Amps data on each of previous 5 days: H7.1 through H7.5: Maximum (filtered) battery volts on last five days. (see 6.2.5 for definition of “filtered”)
H8.1 through H8.5: (Filtered) amps value: which depends on whether H7 maximum voltage on that day was less or greater than the “charged voltage” setpoint programmed in program P1.
If the H7 (maximum filtered voltage) on a particular day is less than the “charged voltage” setpoint: Then the amps value (for that day) is the (filtered) amps value at the moment that the maximum voltage
occurred.
If the H7 (maximum filtered voltage) on a particular day is greater than the “charged voltage: setpoint: Then the amps value is the minimum (filtered) amps during the time that the volts is greater than the
“charged voltage” setpoint
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The last two items are intended to show how close to “charged” the battery system got on that day. It is particularly useful if it appears the “days since charged” has a suspiciously high number of days, indicating that the system is not reaching the “Charged’ parameters when it should. Using H7 data you can find out, for each of the previous five days (1) Did the battery voltage reach the “charged setpoint voltage”? and if not, by how much did it miss? And you can then check the “Amps” value (H8) to see what the current was at the highest voltage. Maybe the charged setpoints are wrong. Or your charger needs adjusting, or there wasn’t enough sun that day. Remember that the meter must reach the filtered values of volts and amps, which is not exactly what the regular display values are. See section 6.2, step 5 for a description of “filtered”, and how to observe them.