Hi. New to this forum. I built the following system for our island off grid cottage:
two 300 watt CS panels and two 190 watt enerwatt panels running on 8 Ga parallel about 30 ft to a Tristar 45 Amp PWM controlling four 6 Volt Crown 220 ah LA batteries through a breaker box that runs a 2000 watt PS Inverter and DC 24 volt water pump and 24 volt Nova Kool 9000 fridge.
This week I noticed that the Tristar meter shows a max of 9.5 amps charging. I checked the output of the panels and they show 37 to 44 volts out.
The only thing I can figure is that the two 300 watt panel connection is shorted.
Any other ideas?
Besides upgrading to a 60 amp MPPT controller, what else should I be upgrading?
Thanks
Ed
two 300 watt CS panels and two 190 watt enerwatt panels running on 8 Ga parallel about 30 ft to a Tristar 45 Amp PWM controlling four 6 Volt Crown 220 ah LA batteries through a breaker box that runs a 2000 watt PS Inverter and DC 24 volt water pump and 24 volt Nova Kool 9000 fridge.
This week I noticed that the Tristar meter shows a max of 9.5 amps charging. I checked the output of the panels and they show 37 to 44 volts out.
The only thing I can figure is that the two 300 watt panel connection is shorted.
Any other ideas?
Besides upgrading to a 60 amp MPPT controller, what else should I be upgrading?
Thanks
Ed
