magicsurfbus
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I have an '05 CI Carioca 656 with the factory-fitted ArSilicii TTK.D10F/CP5L22 Control Panel above the door. It's a fairly basic item which uses lines of four LEDs to indicate battery charge, tank levels etc.
When the van is on its storage site I top up the engine battery via a 10A fused split relay charger linked to the leisure battery, which in turn links (via a charge controller) to a solar panel on the roof. This arrangement has worked fine, and the engine battery was displaying all four lights on the control panel when I picked it up from storage the other week.
However, once we started using the van, the Control Panel has constantly displayed a flashing red light for the engine battery, as if the voltage is too low. This couldn't be further from the truth - I measured the engine battery voltage at the terminals with a multimeter after 24 hours at rest and it was 17+ Volts. We've had no problems starting the van, and the fridge still works on 12V so the panel's not cutting power to other devices when driving.
I've removed the Control Panel and unplugged it from the van's electrical circuit for a few seconds to see if it would reset, but it didn't.
Does anyone know what's going on here, or how to solve it? Have I maybe exceeded the Control Panel's maximum voltage setting and scrambled it?
When the van is on its storage site I top up the engine battery via a 10A fused split relay charger linked to the leisure battery, which in turn links (via a charge controller) to a solar panel on the roof. This arrangement has worked fine, and the engine battery was displaying all four lights on the control panel when I picked it up from storage the other week.
However, once we started using the van, the Control Panel has constantly displayed a flashing red light for the engine battery, as if the voltage is too low. This couldn't be further from the truth - I measured the engine battery voltage at the terminals with a multimeter after 24 hours at rest and it was 17+ Volts. We've had no problems starting the van, and the fridge still works on 12V so the panel's not cutting power to other devices when driving.
I've removed the Control Panel and unplugged it from the van's electrical circuit for a few seconds to see if it would reset, but it didn't.
Does anyone know what's going on here, or how to solve it? Have I maybe exceeded the Control Panel's maximum voltage setting and scrambled it?