Battery charging

[Sue coulson]

My motor has worked really well by solar charging both batteries. However, yesterdsy because weather been poor. Batteries very low. Charged overnight and both read 3/4 full. But ..... today been glorious and both batteries on solar have reduced to half? Advice please
Regards
Sue

 

[Tombola]

how are you measuring the charge Sue

 

[Sue coulson]

I'm not measuring..... there is a switch on console up is car down in leisure

 

[autorouter]

You can tell if a battery is being charged by looking at the voltage. Have a read of this recent thread for some more details.

Burstner 2016 - Issue with Inbuilt battery monitor over hab door - Any Thoughts

I have a Burstner Nexxo T660 with a monitoring panel over the Habitation door which has a indicator needle that is not returning to zero after taking a battery reading. It's worked fine till now, but just checked the batteries and both habitation were showing very low readings and the cab...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

A cheap multimeter is extremely useful for investigating this problem. You can tell if the solar panels are charging the batteries by measuring the battery voltage when it's dark, and then when it's sunny. If it rises to the charging voltage when the sun shines, you know the solar is working.

 

[mitzimad]

seems you have two threads running for the same problem ive commented on the other thread

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[the1andonly]

seems you have two threads running for the same problem ive commented on the other thread

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