Norm: Both the old (brand forgotten, but later absorbed by Xantrex) and newer Xantrex XBM monitors had a manual, user adjustable setting for Charge Efficiency. The original had no automatic function for this, Link 10,20 & XBM have an auto efficiency setting as default, with manual setting available. Also make sure nothing goes to the battery ground terminal, (except the shunt), that every last negative wire goes to the house side of the shunt. Anything that bypasses the shunt will not read on the monitor and cause a cumulative error. If the monitor is on "Auto Eff", you can read what it has calculated. If it is 100%, there is likely a wiring error. Lee Haefele Leopard 38 Alesto 2, waiting for a calm at Fajardo PR.
Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Submarine Battery Discharges > > > Lee, > > Thank you for the great information about the submarine batteries. It > correlates well with the information I have read in Home Power magazine. > > It was interesting that you used the actual working load to determine > battery capacity rather than any battery spec. > > I have noticed that my AH meter tends to accumulate errors so that after a > while it says the battery is charged when the hydrometer says it is not. > Encouraged by your experience that your AH meters were "quite accurate" I > will look into this and perhaps I can change some parameters to make mine > more accurate. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
