help needed with electrics

[periana]

only had the MH 1 month or so drove from spain to ireland good as gold now funny things are happening with the electrics please can some body help and explain what happening.. i had a solar panel installed just before we left spain with the language barrier i thought i under stood but maybe not. any ways i have up loaded two pictures first one for the solar panel can any body tell me if that looks ok? secound is from the main panel and for the first time it is showing two batteries and the letter G never seen that before?? ok problem we are having is there seems to be a drain of power or something the electric stairs will not open and as soon as we try the drain plug on the boiler opens up and water comes out sort of trips thevalve just push it bak in and fine. but still no stairs when i start up and run for a few mins then alls well stairs open perfect. we have been home now for 2 weeks and have used the MH to drive around as our main car is on sorn for a while as going back to spain next month any advice would be most greatful

 

[Gromett]

only had the MH 1 month or so drove from spain to ireland good as gold now funny things are happening with the electrics please can some body help and explain what happening.. i had a solar panel installed just before we left spain with the language barrier i thought i under stood but maybe not. any ways i have up loaded two pictures first one for the solar panel can any body tell me if that looks ok? secound is from the main panel and for the first time it is showing two batteries and the letter G never seen that before?? ok problem we are having is there seems to be a drain of power or something the electric stairs will not open and as soon as we try the drain plug on the boiler opens up and water comes out sort of trips thevalve just push it bak in and fine. but still no stairs when i start up and run for a few mins then alls well stairs open perfect. we have been home now for 2 weeks and have used the MH to drive around as our main car is on sorn for a while as going back to spain next month any advice would be most greatful

Possible duff battery. When you activate the steps, the voltage on the battery is pulled down below the dump valves trip voltage.

I would check the battery first.

 

[TheBig1]

as above

 

[periana]

its brand new cost €180 in spain only 5 weeks old! cant be that

 

[Lenny HB]

When did you take the pic of the solar regulator? If at night probably ok and it's reading the battery voltage and it's fully charged. If you took it with the sun out it's not working as it should go up to 14.2 v then when the battery is charged drop to 13.8v.
Not sure about the other problems, is the 13.4 with the engine running or on EHU, just wondering if the battery is duff and losing its charge very quickly.

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[Lenny HB]

its brand new cost €180 in spain only 5 weeks old! cant be that

Still could have hot a duff one, or you have a faulty charger that's bu**gged it. If it's the battery disconnect it before it blows the charger.

 

[autorouter]

If it's not the battery it could be a bad connection. Check that the positive and negative terminals are clean and tight.

It would help if you could take a reading with a multimeter across the battery terminal posts. Obviously it should be the same as the panel display, but if there's a bad connection somewhere they may read different.

 

[pappajohn]

If you took it with the sun out it's not working as it should go up to 14.2 v then when the battery is charged drop to 13.8v.

The solar controller voltage display doesn't look right. A lot of the voltage digits appear greyed out and only a couple of spots are shown in black.
And its also showing load, not battery charging

 

[Lenny HB]

The solar controller voltage display doesn't look right. A lot of the voltage digits appear greyed out and only a couple of spots are shown in black.
And its also showing load, not battery charging

Couldn't see that on me phone, I'm in darkest Germany.

 

[autorouter]

I think it's showing load connected to battery (ie load is switched on at that time). But if there's nothing connected to the load terminals, as there probably isn't, then the 12.8 reading is the battery voltage.

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[Camping Gaza]

In the solar picture your hab battery is not charging (no sun) and you have your load selected.
Get into the menu and disable the load output.

Do you have 2 batteries installed or does that mean hab and starter? on your hab panel?

 

[pappajohn]

Couldn't see that on me phone, I'm in darkest Germany.

See it now Lenny HB .
One segment at Bottom left of each digit is black, rest is grey.
I think the controllers faulty.

 

[Lenny HB]

See it now Lenny.
One segment at View attachment 326865Bottom left of each digit is black, rest is grey.
I think the controllers faulty.

Could be, too many beers & G&T to care.
The man needs to get a multi meter on it and get some proper readings.

 

[138go]

Think its a CBE Panel the two battery symbols and the G according to google translate are ..

Indicates that the battery parallel connection is switched on when the engine is started (symbol also appears when Pan is switched off)

Might be worth finding which electronics you have and get a manual off the internet

The solar panel picture looks like it's trying to tell you the battery is connected to some sort of load. Those units are programmable so agin get the book out.