Fighting the South Florida heat!. I find myself solely relying on my solar system for weeks at a time. My system is a 24v system (components listed below) the battery bank was with 8 - 100 amp Battleborn batteries. My batteries would go from 100% charged at say 10pm and by 6am they would be down to 18-20% and the volts would drop low enough to shut they system down with a low battery alarm. (Just as the sun would start coming up) (yes, I am attempting to run 2 ac units to keep the 45 ft RV somewhat cool)
I figured adding a few more batteries would get me the extra time needed for the solar panels to start charging the batteries again. I added 2 more batteries, wired them in 2 seperate 12v strings of 5 batteries wired in parallel and then connected to the other string of 5 in Series to get the 24 volts needed. I was thinking that would be 1000 amp hrs.? (Which is what I changed the battery settings in my smartshunt too)
*Correct image updated
Now it seems I have plenty of battery life in the morning about 50% but my volts are now dropping off by morning enough for the multi-plus's to shut off with a low battery alarm.
I am hoping that I'm just not understanding something (or a lot) and I have a setting, or two, or three wrong.
Any educated assistance would be greatly appreciated I would also love to find someone on the southeast coast of Florida who could look at the system.
System:
2 - Victron Multiplus 24v/3000/70amp -- Split phase 180.
2 - Mppt 150/100/TR ve can.
10 - battle born 100 amp batteries. 2 seperate 12 volt strings of 5 batteries wired in parallel and then connected in series to make 24 volts.
8 - 330w solar panels (2640 W) wired series/parallel and broken down 2 arrays of 4 panels
Smartshunt 500A/50mV.
Cerbo GX with touch 50
Orion 24/12-70
Generator - Onan 5500
Auto transformer 120/240/100 amp
Oops, I actually attached the wrong image for the battery configuration. *correct image
