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  • Re: Pv volts vs battery volts

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    You have too large an array to effectively use that charge controller to charge a 12 volt battery bank. Do you already have a 12 volt inverter? 16 - 12 volt batteries all in parallel would be very di…
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  • Re: Cable Connections: Battery Bank

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    The engineers at Midnite, are pretty good, and in fact are the guys who started Outback and were with Trace/Xantrex before that... I like your idea of a grounding problem, you say that the Midnite Ki…
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  • Re: Help Suggest and fix my friend's new DIY Solar system....

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    All lead acid batteries are really just strings on 2 volt cells, so a 6 volt has 3 cells in series and a 12 volt has 6 cells in series. so to create a 24 volt battery bank you will have 2 strings of …
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  • Re: PV OVER VOLTAGE

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    If there were no changes to the system for a week or 2 prior to this, I'd figure I was just a glitch and move on... maybe look around to replace the charge controller if it fails. If it was a MPPT ty…
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  • Re: Off-Grid Solar Test

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    Best way to get a realistic handle on the State of Charge would be with a shunt based meter like the Trimetric https://www.solar-electric.com/bogart-engineering-tm-2030-rv-battery-monitor.html ...or …
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