After 10 days at Diggers camp last Christmas, in the heat with full sun it appeared that our battery and or mppt charger were not functioning correctly. The mppt kept going offline, battery kept running down and would hold a charge for long.
Big change in our setup. Upgraded lithium battery to 200ah. A compact unit from gentrax. compact enough to fit into a kings battery box and sit in same spot, with the same plugs. An easy swap over.
Have been learning to work with wire, and have purchased a wire stripper and crimper, and some shrinkwrap to make tidy connections.
Also purchased a victrom 100/20 smart solar mppt. So I can now monitor my solar charging via blue tooth.
I built a box for it and made up some input and output terminals with the bootlace crimper. the controller now sits in a waterproof lunchbox and hangs in the same spot as the other one used to.
Another 2 nights at red cliff to test the battery, kept everything working for 2 nights 3 days with no need for solar. We are now off again for 5 nights at boorkoom.This week is the wotpod power upgrades first real test.
Also installed a cheap voltage meter for the kitchen. Tested it last night and the reading it gives is identical to the kings box and the controller. The old meter was reading .4 volts higher than other readings, so out it went.
Will charge battery tonight, fill the tank with water and get gear packed and fridge packed ready to leave after a surf in the morning. Will get fuel on the way because Ballina fuel is 15 cents per litre cheaper than the fuel around here. Thanks to petrolspy.
Bike on car roof, board on teardrop, full fridge, full battery, warm blankets, firewood, and we are go.