![]() I don't use my starting battery for cycling purposes, off course. If the starting battery, is for starting purposes with solar used to keep it charged, because the van sits idle for extended periods, you need a 5w to 10w module and regulator to hold charge in a starting battery application. It appears you need a deep cycle cell if you are cycling the battery when the engines alternator is not used to support this load, with the ability of CCA for starting application at the size to accommodate a 250w module charge pressure. This only contributes to the brilliance of Victron equipment, not the demise of Victron failed in their design. However at least you noticed the charge controller is set for 24v and it actually miraculously worked for the past year in this state. If the starting battery is a thin plate Pb type for starting application and your using it for cyclic use, you will kill it guaranteed. Starting battery in a work van will be 40 - 60a/h lead acid starting type? With solar at 250watts into it? Wow. Hi Dave, It never surprises me to read what someone does with equipment and then faults the equipment. The controller should throw some sort of alarm.) (In this case the voltage has been between 12 and 17 volt for weeks, with a 24 volt setting. * I know the software of the MPPT is basic, but would there be a way to detect that something is wrong when the voltage has been detected incorrectly and then actually everything after that doesn't make sense. * Show the detected voltage/voltage setting somewhere in the VictronConnect interface main screen. (I once spend the better part of a day trying to solve a "high PV voltage error", only to find the voltage detecion was wrong.) ![]() * Not only do the voltage detection, but SHOW the result. ![]() * Do a voltage detection every time the battery disconnects. Can we not find a way to make it easier to double check the battery voltage? Suggestions: If you change over an MPPT controller from for example 24 volt to a 12 volt battery, it stays on 24 volt and then can kill the battery, as happened above. The MPPT have automatic voltage detection, but with 24 volt batteries it usually recognizes it as 12 volt and with a 48 volt batteries it usually recognizes it as 24 volt. (It was a maintenance-free battery, so can't check the electrolyte level.)īut now I would like to make a few suggestings, also to make sure this doesn't happen so easy: Too bad, cost me a battery, but the MPPT doesn't have an issue. I used it in a 24 volt setup before, so I must have forgotten to change the voltage. Ok, from the settings the problem was obvious.
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