I wondered if anyone who had made the switch in the thread title could give me some advice.
I have the LR1218 feeding to an Elektroblok 220 which is working fine but I want to add further solar and move to a mppt controller. The schaudt display is enabled to that it shows solar amps going to each of the leisure and vehicle batteries.
I have the Votrolic controller and was hoping I could just connect it to the Elektrobloc using the same cable that goes from the LR1218 to the Elektroblok, however, this Schaudt cable has 3 outputs from the controller which plug into the Elektroblok for the charging current and two outputs for the monitoring of the charge. Looking at the specific cable that Votronic sell, it has two outputs for the charging current and only one for the monitoring.
Has anyone done this swap and used the just the relevant wires of the Schaudt cable or did you use the Votronic specific one? I could bypass the Elektrobloc completely, but it works well in the current configuration so I would prefer to keep it. If someone has done this, with the single monitoring wire from the Votronic, does the panel show both Leisure and Vehicle charging amps?
Any help welcome!
Jim
I have the LR1218 feeding to an Elektroblok 220 which is working fine but I want to add further solar and move to a mppt controller. The schaudt display is enabled to that it shows solar amps going to each of the leisure and vehicle batteries.
I have the Votrolic controller and was hoping I could just connect it to the Elektrobloc using the same cable that goes from the LR1218 to the Elektroblok, however, this Schaudt cable has 3 outputs from the controller which plug into the Elektroblok for the charging current and two outputs for the monitoring of the charge. Looking at the specific cable that Votronic sell, it has two outputs for the charging current and only one for the monitoring.
Has anyone done this swap and used the just the relevant wires of the Schaudt cable or did you use the Votronic specific one? I could bypass the Elektrobloc completely, but it works well in the current configuration so I would prefer to keep it. If someone has done this, with the single monitoring wire from the Votronic, does the panel show both Leisure and Vehicle charging amps?
Any help welcome!
Jim