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Hello. Just recently had to travel for a few days. Unplugged load from invertor but left panels connected via Victron MPPT to FLA batteries. Also had battery sense and battery safe connected.
When I returned I saw that each day seems to have used 500w. Is this normal and where does this energy go?
Wh, not W.
The energy went into your battery and also to power all devices you still have powered by the battery.
No I didn't turn the invertor off. Sorry yeah wh. I guess what I mean is if no ther systems are connected except 1000w invertor, MPPT, batterymonitor and batteryconnect is this use normal.seems my normal use is 1.6kwh so 550wh without anything seems high.
Let's say your inverter draws only 10W with no loads (but not powered off).
In 24 hours that means 240Wh.
Thanks for helping me home in my question. So is the wh displayed on the screenshot being used - it's not something displayed to keep batteries in good condition that doesn't really exist or something. Only have a small 1000w must invertor so 20w an hour feels like a lot of "leakage"
You removed the load from your inverter but did you turn the inverter power off?
Inverters use a small amount of power even without a load.
Best practice might be to have a switchable breaker in the inverter power feed circuit.
Many places power could be going including battery as seb71 suggested.
No I didn't turn the invertor off. Sorry yeah wh. I guess what I mean is if no ther systems are connected except 1000w invertor, MPPT, batterymonitor and batteryconnect is this use normal.seems my normal use is 1.6kwh so 550wh without anything seems high.
