I hate my Kid!

[Free Energy Freak]

FEF, to complete your sig , it will help to add the battery voltage.  it puts any numbers into perspective... 

Sorry. Forgot that. All banks are 12vdc.

Also what are the loads during the day, some of your problrmd with charging may be  from a cloe to fulll battery and high heat and low PV output as DGD said

The 400 watts array is at the off-grid farm. It powers 3 watt LED lights, cell phone chargers, small DC television, dvd player, and a fan.
The 135 watts array is here at our home. It will power my electronics about once per week during a power cut of up to a few hours. Once I get the second panel wired, it should easily charge a single 120AH battery in one day, from my calculations. (I was pretty bad at math in school, though.)
The 100 watts array is at the off-grid farm, solely to power some outside LED perimeter lighting. Gets pretty dark where no mains are for some distance.

So far, I have only drawn a 150 watts 230v inverter to power my computer and a fan, during yesterday's power cut. Prior to then the battery connected to the Kid was pretty close to being fully charged. This morning, though, the battery should have needed a charge. However, when I woke - after sun rise, the display was already blank. The only thing I could do was power off the PV, power off the battery and restart the controller. I lowered the calibration on the input and connected the solar.


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I want the battery to get as full of a charge during the day as possible. I certainly do not want to wake up every morning to a blank display, and have to sort it.

[Westbranch]

I want the battery to get as full of a charge during the day as possible. I certainly do not want to wake up every morning to a blank display, and have to sort it.

Yup, that is probably everyone's main objective

cheers...

[Mario]

FEF, you will need to calibrate the kid with a more accurate meter than what you currently have, some users have mentioned that your panel VOC is probably really close to the battery voltage, that could also be a problem.
Now as for the Blank Screen, there were some Beta kids with that problem some of them got fixed with software update and others had to come back for a Hardware update.

Lets get you unit calibrated and see if that changes anything, try Solar 2 O&P mode, and if that doesn't fix it then the unit will most likely have to come back for hardware upgrade.... you have to remember that this is still a beta unit, hardware was still under final steps of development.
Soon enough I could have some Beta firmware that could help the issue.

Mario

[Free Energy Freak]

FEF, you will need to calibrate the kid with a more accurate meter than what you currently have, some users have mentioned that your panel VOC is probably really close to the battery voltage, that could also be a problem.
Now as for the Blank Screen, there were some Beta kids with that problem some of them got fixed with software update and others had to come back for a Hardware update.

Lets get you unit calibrated and see if that changes anything, try Solar 2 O&P mode, and if that doesn't fix it then the unit will most likely have to come back for hardware upgrade.... you have to remember that this is still a beta unit, hardware was still under final steps of development.
Soon enough I could have some Beta firmware that could help the issue.

Mario

Yeah, I understand, Mario. I didn't really mean that I hated it. As you and I discussed on Skype, it is more of me NOT knowing what I am doing, I think, than it is the unit NOT performing as it should. "Too many bells & whistles for me," as my dear departed pappy would have said.

I just need to learn more about the unit and what the functions actually do. Not to mention, having a multimeter that is more accurate. I hope the one coming is accurate - considering it is being sold in the US, rather than in a Third World country.

I have (temporarily) disconnected it from the single panel, until I can get the other meter to check it with and / or the second panel installed in series. I will also look at Solar 2 if the calibration option doesn't work.

I really appreciate all your help, man. You went above and beyond, something I pretty well figured Midnite would do, to help your client. I'm sure, no matter what, it will be sorted out in the end.