Can you let me know more about your setup?
Is this the unit you bought in November? (In case this is something which
has gone weird with a batch, and somehow not caught by our test procedures).
If you've got a defective one, we'll swap it, paying shipping both ways.
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Sorin Esanu <so...@evox.ro> wrote:
> We’ve experienced this exact same behaviour last week. It seems like PWR1
> and PWR2 are acting like one now.
> We are in process of replacing all the SiteMonitor II devices with Tycon
> TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2, which can monitor more things and it’s a lot smarter.
>
>
> > On 10 May 2017, at 01:31, Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think I have a SiteMonitor II with a problem, as I always thought that
> the two power sensors (PWR1 and PWR2) were independent of each other, and
> should have a pretty high impedance between then.
> >
> > We set up a new solar site, and put our load on PWR1 and the batteries
> on PWR2. As soon as we hook up either one of the sense wires, the breaker
> to the batteries (30 amp) pops, and all the lights go out.
> >
> > We can monitor one voltage on PWR1, or the same or different voltage on
> PWR2. However, if both are connected we blow the 30 amp breaker to the
> batteries.
> >
> > We've checked the polarity (both voltages are negative ground), and they
> are both "about" the same voltage (although we have monitored radically
> different voltage in the past (like 12V on one and 48V on the other). This
> is a 48VDC system, so we are seeing ~~ 56V on both right now,
> >
> > BTW, when we hook up just one of the sensors and leave the other open,
> we see ~~ 43 volts between PWR1 and PWR2. I haven't checked other
> SiteMonitors, but this doesn't seem right to me.
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > bp
> > part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com
>
>
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