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Lost again
Hey folks. I hope you can help me trouble shoot an unusual issue I’m having.
Over the winter I replaced my two 100 watt flexible panels with two 100 watt Renogy Eclipse panels on the roof of my Camper. I also upgraded my battery from one 100AH BattleBorn to two to give me additional capacity. We have been using a Blue Seas 3000i solar controller
We recently went to Texas and Southern New Mexico for a month and of course with daily driving down there we didn’t notice any issues. However once we were there and only driving for an hour or three we noticed our battery SOC slowly going down. We have a portable Overland Solar 100 watt panel that we plugged into the solar controller and the solar controller still didn’t register any input. We made it home ok by driving several hours at a time and occasionally plugging in at night where available.
Today I finally had a chance to try and trouble shoot what the issue might be. I started out by measuring the voltage output from each panel thinking that maybe I got a bad batch but they were both putting out about 14.6V in my garage (not in direct sunlight). I then traced the wires which included an extension set because I moved the panel locations and they registered the same. I then pulled the wires out from the back of the Blue Seas and they also registered the same (+/-).
So I’m down to the possibility that the solar controller has gone bad…I’ve not heard of this happening so I’m reaching out to see if my thinking is on track or if there is something else that I should check….
Thanks for any help.
Over the winter I replaced my two 100 watt flexible panels with two 100 watt Renogy Eclipse panels on the roof of my Camper. I also upgraded my battery from one 100AH BattleBorn to two to give me additional capacity. We have been using a Blue Seas 3000i solar controller
We recently went to Texas and Southern New Mexico for a month and of course with daily driving down there we didn’t notice any issues. However once we were there and only driving for an hour or three we noticed our battery SOC slowly going down. We have a portable Overland Solar 100 watt panel that we plugged into the solar controller and the solar controller still didn’t register any input. We made it home ok by driving several hours at a time and occasionally plugging in at night where available.
Today I finally had a chance to try and trouble shoot what the issue might be. I started out by measuring the voltage output from each panel thinking that maybe I got a bad batch but they were both putting out about 14.6V in my garage (not in direct sunlight). I then traced the wires which included an extension set because I moved the panel locations and they registered the same. I then pulled the wires out from the back of the Blue Seas and they also registered the same (+/-).
So I’m down to the possibility that the solar controller has gone bad…I’ve not heard of this happening so I’m reaching out to see if my thinking is on track or if there is something else that I should check….
Thanks for any help.