I have a question or two about my Emeter. On the Tour de Sol I once tortured my batteries by doing a very long run (> 80 miles in a truck!), but the Emeter percent remaining never went below 3. Is it supposed to do that? (for the record I never let the voltage sag below 105, and the truck still had some power...)
Another time I hopped in for a drive on a very rainy day and the Emeter was reading 400 volts! I have a 120 volt system. I wired the thing very carefully and have never had any problems with any other wiring in the truck or the Emeter reading funny, so I suspect that some water must have gotten in somewhere. It hasn't done that again, even on some other pretty rainy days. Is it possible that my prescaler got some water in it? I admit this has me a bit baffled. I want to make sure that doesn't happen again.... thanks
Seth
On Saturday, October 19, 2002, at 01:10 PM, John G. Lussmyer wrote:
My EMeter has some odd behaviour when the %remaining drops below 0 (jumps to a higher number, then starts counting down again). (yeah, I KNOW I shouldn't do that!)
So I had an email chat with Xantrex, and they suggested that I send it in for repair. At the same time I'm paying an extra $80 to have it upgraded with the RS-232 option!
I hadn't realized you could just send it in to get it upgraded! (Actually, I'm going to just drive it over there, since I discovered I work about 20 miles from their factory/office.)
Now I need to get a cheap PDA with RS-232 so I can do data logging etc...
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