On Aug 10, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Skip Gundlach wrote:
However, 8 hours after we start that*regime, despite the solar shutting
off (as designed, with full*charge), and the heat dump on the wind (the
wind has continued*while we've been here, and the controller on that
one moves the*charge to a heat strip) proving our otherwise full
charge, we've*not achieved any higher voltage than would be the case in
a*normal charge.

Skip,

Even starting with that thoroughly depleted bank, you should have full
charge by now and equalization should have taken place.

Everything I hear indicates lots of lose or dirty connections or
undersized wiring (which I don't expect with the newly installed
stuff), lots of voltage drop in the lines. It's so endemic that I
suspect the main cables. Even with our trivial loads and small engine,
we got much better transfer when we went from basically heavy-duty auto
cables to 2/0 and 1/0 and cut the line length down from about 40' total
to about 12.

Sounds like that will the problem that's going to take you the longest
to solve on this shake-down.

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