Solar panel - Check your battery
The weather has been so dire these past few days, dark and dismal with absoluely no sunshine for about a week now and I discovered yestetday on a routine check of my motorhome that the battery was almost flat because of little to no output from my solar panel. This is the first time I have seen this since the panel was installed 6 yeas ago.
While there has been the odd period of brightness prior to this dismal period, it has clearly been insufficient to do any good and the latest gloomy period and lack of use has been the last straw. If you rely on a solar panel and have been experiencing similar conditons, it might pay you to check your battery's state.
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I second this.
I would write more, but I am just costing up new domestic batteries, as mine was totally flat!0 -
I’m using a 3 year old leisure battery, Truma iNet box confirms 13.9v this morning in the cornish sunshine with 150w panel. That’ll settle back to about 12.9v when the sun disappears. I guess something like that is what you can reasonably expect with a good battery.
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Managed 6.4Kw today but last week one of the days it only made 0.4Kw.
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if you find that the battery is low , what do you surgest the remedy should be , shut all fuzes down for the winter ???
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Check the drain on your battery, if it’s feeding something then isolating will obviously help. Do you have a solar panel? If so, you might need a higher output panel and/or locate the panel in the optimal position relative to the sun position. There’s no doubt that a battery subject to a regular cycle of discharge and full charge will not last anywhere near as long as a battery constantly maintained in a fully charged or similar state.
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