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Thanks Oilbrnr and Iowahiker.

Again, thanks Vic. Since you are not able to charge a lithium battery at 32°F or below, and you live in Calgary, how do you deal with that? Keep the batteries warm some how?

Not too much data, Vic, and thanks for your research. It's interesting that Deka sells its batteries for use in a setup that doesn't provide temperature compensation. AGM batteries are becoming common in cars nowadays, so I'm told, because of no maintenance required. I doubt there is any...

FWC says its charging system is not set up to have temperature compensation. FWC says my 2016 camper has the IQ4 on the Iota charger (news to me). Deka is the AGM battery FWC now installs and Deka knows how FWC's charging system works, so how important is it when Deka says temperature...

I have a question regarding charging my two Deka AGM batteries (replacements for the OME pair that failed in less than two years). Deka says you must compensate for the temperature when charging, and I assume that is true for all AGM batteries, and maybe all lead acid batteries. Lower charging...

I have a 2016 Fleet with a front dinette. I installed a 100/30 Victron controller, a battery monitor and the battery temperature sensor. I have Blue Tooth on the controller and wish I had got it on the battery monitor. I tried the Victron controller in the space where the old controller was but...

Milt, very enjoyable to read and look at your drawings. Thanks for putting the effort into it.

A while back when I was adding a 100-watt panel to the roof, in addition to the original 160-watt panel, I read on the Renogy website, in answer to a question about wiring in series, that Renogy did not recommend doing that unless the panels were of equal wattage, that doing so would pull the...

I've got the dealer contacting Victron and hopefully I will have an answer in a day or so. There are no faults. It's one blinking light at a time, the entire time the controller is in each of the three stages. The light should be solid and not blinking.

I replaced my Zamp controller with the Victron 100/30 solar controller. Everything was fine. Since a number of people here have this controller I'm wondering if anyone has experienced this, which now doesn't seem so fine: When the controller in is Bulk, its light blinks. This is normal when...

OK, Vic, I got that. I would then have to switch the Zamp panel over to a MC4 connector . Putting the two grounds in one branch connector and two positives in the other branch connector, then the MC4-to-SAE connector gives me two panels in parallel. Thanks, Vic and Paul. How about the issue...

Thanks, Paul. I don't know if it makes any difference but that is 12 gauge wire instead of 10 gauge. I do see such a connector from Chafon that is 10 guage, In any case, what do I do with two SAE plugs and one place to plug in?

Is there a reason FWC doesn't install a switch/circuit breaker so the solar panel can be disconnected from the camper electrical system? I've been covering the solar panel with cardboard to shut it down so I can work on the system. Secondly, I'm on the verge of installing a second panel on the...

A Valtera Fridge Cool Fan is what I got and a couple of tests I've run shows it's keeping the fridge shelves the same temperature. There are others here who have more experience with the fan than I. It's cheaply made and Amazon says it's unavailable. There is a second Valtera fan that gets a...

ckent323, I assume you are recommending replacing the circuit breaker near the truck batteries, and with the wiring I have use a 30 amp breaker. Do you see anywhere else in this system that I need to add a fuse or circuit breaker, or replace what I have? I have read the topic on increasing the...

I cannot see any fuse near the ACR other than the one on the ground wire, which was a 10 amp fuse although the ACR installation instructions called for a 1 amp fuse.

There is a 30 amp circuit breaker in the truck on the line from the truck battery to the camper. There is a fuse on the ground from the ACR and there is a 30 amp fuse near the camper batteries on the wire from the solar controller. The only other hot wire to/from the battery is the line from the...

Hold on. Maybe there is a fuse on the truck side. I'll check further tomorrow.

Disconnecting the ACR ground does shut down the VCR (its green light goes out, indicating the batteries are no longer connected) and the voltage meter confirms this. I'm not overly impressed with the FWC wiring and what FWC has told me about the wiring isn't the way it was done. The wiring...

Thanks, pvstoy, I have the meter and will do as you suggest.

My question above should have been, with the ACR not functioning is the current blocked or can it flow freely?

I have the Blue Sea ACR 7611 and there are times I want all the solar charge to go to the two camper batteries. The Isotherm fridge alone can use more than 40 Ah in 24 hours. If I pull the grounding wire from the ACR box the ACR light goes out and I assume it is shut down, not allowing current...

I got the batteries load tested today and both failed--after less than two years. They are being replaced under warranty. One battery failed quicker than the other, 4 minutes versus 13 minutes. The battery guy thought most likely one battery was weak at the start and pulled the other battery down.

Interesting post and thanks for doing it. Maybe when you fix the photo rotation you could enlarge the photos. Even clicking on them produces a small photo. They look like they would be worth seeing bigger.

FWC says the amp draw of the fridge averages 2.7 and my monitoring shows that is the range I'm in even at 10.5 volts. On 6 volt batteries I meant to say, I would gain 15 Ah available over the 12 volt batteries, going from 170 Ah total 12 volt to 200 Ah 6 volt. No wonder I need help.