Tamacat
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We finally went solar after 7 years of vanlife. Eco-Worthy 2 100 watt panels full kit w a 12.8v 50ah battery, and a 600 watt inverter, with a 30A PWM controller. First thing we did was toss the PWM for a Renogy Rover 30A.
24 hours plus, all was good (except parking in the hot sun) but then last night, instead of lasting the four hours it had the previous night, the battery drained on its own, from 11.7 with the inverter off, to 7.4. I gave up and we hit the sack. This morning the whole thing was dead! The Renogy has a sort of jump start in it? After 2 hours the system limped to life, with an ACr code (which I took an hour to find out means the controller is knocking on the battery's door trying to wake it up) then the system began working again. I made absolutely sure everything was set correctly, connected correctly and the DC load was shut off. We charged the battery up to the 13.1 it was at on initial hook up before turning on the inverter, and plugging in our 45-60 watt pulling fridge, and all seems okay, but any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!
24 hours plus, all was good (except parking in the hot sun) but then last night, instead of lasting the four hours it had the previous night, the battery drained on its own, from 11.7 with the inverter off, to 7.4. I gave up and we hit the sack. This morning the whole thing was dead! The Renogy has a sort of jump start in it? After 2 hours the system limped to life, with an ACr code (which I took an hour to find out means the controller is knocking on the battery's door trying to wake it up) then the system began working again. I made absolutely sure everything was set correctly, connected correctly and the DC load was shut off. We charged the battery up to the 13.1 it was at on initial hook up before turning on the inverter, and plugging in our 45-60 watt pulling fridge, and all seems okay, but any insight would be appreciated. Thank you!
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