Top Tips for Tackling the Low Sunshine Months

Do you feel like you’ve got your head in the sand when it comes to monitoring your system? Many of the products have amazing built in monitoring capabilities ready to be utilised and understanding your systems capability’s can be a lot of fun.

Check battery absorption
All systems should reach and complete their absorption phase, different battery banks have a different absorption time, for a large lead bank absorption time can be as much as 4 times your bulk charge to maintain good health. With technologies like lithium and lead carbon your absorption time can be greatly reduced with a fixed absorption between 2-4 hours being best. To check this you can log into your all in one monitoring system like the Noark Australia app or Victron VRM  or if you have a basic set up with only solar and a separate 12v system you controller may have this capability built into the solar controller or other Bluetooth devices.

Check solar production
As their are 3 longs months ahead of reduced solar production checks throughout the day can be important especially in your first season, to make sure your batteries  are in their best condition at the end of winter make sure they have finished absorption and have moved to float or storage mode.