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Is this the one you're referring to? http://www.bepmarine.com/en/710-140a Sounds pretty straightforward in terms of operation. I'm having some difficulty wrapping my head around the advantages/disadvantages of one type of relay over another. There are differences. I think a lot of this...

It's sad to lose something you love and labored over, but the big picture is that you're around, unhurt and able to rebuild. Glad you and your friend are OK and good luck with your next FW project.

Rando...that's what I told the guy at Blue Sea. In fact, my 1314A separator is only rated for 120A and I haven't had a problem with that particular feature, although I don't really like the way it works. He begged to differ.

I have flooded lead acid in my camper. I looked at the link you provided...that looks like an interesting option. They have chargers for both lead acid and other battery types. I talked w/ Blue Sea today and they told me I couldn't use the smaller ACR in my 3/4 ton, my alternator puts out too...

Thanks for the reply. I found a Blue Sea owners manual which had some additional info beyond the chart I posted. They specify 13V for at least 2 minutes for the relay to close, which I think is another way of saying what you said... :D

Thanks for letting me know, Paul. Sorry to hear that....

Thinking about replacing my stock Surepower 1314A separator with a Blue Sea ACR. As others have pointed out on previous threads, the 1314A will go open circuit if the aux batt voltage drops below 12.7V or thereabouts. I have lots of solar (320W), but in the morning after running the frig and...

Which model ACR did you install? I'm thinking about swapping out my 1314A for a Blue Sea 7611, not sure if that will allow solar charging of the truck/engine battery once the aux battery is fully charged.

Thanks for this. Will give it a try. Thanks rich for the zapper idea as well. My wife is going to order one of these. We ordered some new, finer screen mesh last week, plan on making some window screens to velcro over the existing ones. Is that what you did? You mentioned that she...

I'm bugged by bugs. Living in the Rockies we have every bug out there, and no see ums/midges get through the regular screen on my Hawk. Last night I was camped near W. Yellowstone, and there must have been hundreds of no see ums hovering around my LEDs. Fortunately they want the light and not...

I have a Hawk w/an indoor shower, front dinette. We've only used the shower twice (we have the outdoor hookup too, and we've used that more), but it's pretty slick. Roomy it is not, but does what it's supposed to do. Obviously it's a tight fit with the shower curtain wrapped close, but works...

Can't say for sure, but thinking they will fix the problem for anyone who's experiencing it. They have 3 controllers they market, and as far as I can tell, only my model (SB3000i) has the performance issue. We hooked up their lower end model while I was in CA, and, interestingly, it performed...

Final update on this thread, for anyone interested.... Was in S. California this past week camping on the beach, and I stopped by Blue Sky in Vista and spoke with Ryan, the head techie I've been dealing with. We went into his lab and set up conditions that replicated my camper setup...

After ignoring the whole damn thing for the last 5 days I took a look at my system again today, and did a few things: 1) hooked up the controller again to my 12V truck battery, just to make sure it performed well like it did the other day - it did. 2) went to auto store and borrowed 2 6V...

Probably not the best person to ask at this point, as my solar controller isn't playing well w/my two 6V batteries wired in series, but my situation isn't typical..... Having had both configurations, I would go w/the 6V in series anyday over two 12V in parallel, for many of the reasons already...

Well, as the saying goes, if it's too good to be true.... Pulled camper out of garage this AM, and it went back to its cycling thing. Hard to figure, as yesterday it performed flawlessly for hours after I replaced that wire. I changed settings in the controller on the fly, it responded...

I like this topic, and I've had 12V AGMs and now 6V FLAs. So far I like the 6V performance much better. Yes, the watering and care is more with flooded batteries, but not so much that, for me, it's a deal-breaker. Haven't had any issues with venting/gassing. I had a VW van years ago, and I...

Will do, thanks, will report back. Want to double-check the gauge of the wire...I was amped up about replacing it, so I might have mis-gauged it, it might be a 10 AWG. But I'll find out. After I do the resistance test I'll cut it and see if the copper (if that's what's in it LOL) is the gauge...

Patrick....I will have another look at the wire in the next few days, and report back - not home at the moment, and that's where the old wire is. I want to double check the gauge as well. Pardon me for sounding like an idiot (I'm really not, but haven't messed w/EE stuff for a long time til...

Anyone still reading this blog....I solved my problem today, finally....over a month of frustration. And the solution, as you would expect, was simple. To Vic and everyone else who were puzzled by what I thought was my 'solution', you were right - the battery separator et al wasn't the...

It definitely made a difference. Not sure why. Unfortunately, I can't trace the wires behind the cabinet. There's an area from the camper battery to the separator I can't see. Electrically, it probably shouldn't have made a difference...but I can tell you for certain that when I removed ALL...

Vic...here's a rough (very rough) sketch of what I'm talking about. The top one is what FWC had wired up....the bottom one is what I did. There is a 30A Pollak circuit breaker in between the battery and the separator that FWC put there....for simplicity I omitted the breaker, so you could see...

Finally made some progress on my controller issue. Received third controller from Blue Sky, but acted the same as the previous two. When I disconnected the battery separator I simply unplugged the camper exterior plug from the truck bed, as the connection between the engine battery and the...

I've tried every configuration I can think of....but nothing is repeatable. I shortened the absorb time today so that I could do these 'tests' without waiting all day for the controller to go to float.....the batteries were charged when I've started testing them daily. Don't see a need to...

Wanted to update for anyone still reading this.... I disconnected everything from my controller except the PV input and batteries. Set the controller to factory defaults and reconnected (factory default absorption time is 2 hours). Reconnected batteries and PV input. Controller eventually...