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Daily Discussion Thread:🌹Wed 14 Feb 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I used the cable that came with (only halving it to insert the regulator in the middle) so idk. Gauge should be ok? It definitely needs recrimpling now but that's after I moved it and the wires pulled out of the ferrules. (The controller isn't secured to anything to protect it against motion pulling on them.)

Before that it was working fine, just a really low output even in full sun 🤨

Edit: Oh, does the gauge matter for the regulator? It shouldn't right?

I do have a cheap soldering kit somewhere if need be.

Oh man... I've left the battery sitting for like a year or two without draining it as well. I hope there's no problem caused by that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All g, so you need to recrimp the ferrules, then test the current coming out of that. If all good, then you test the current going into the charge controller. (Just on the screw terminals)

Battery would be low but okayish, car batteries get used because they're so hard to kill. But if you have a mains charger that would be useful to give it a bit of juicing (for my smaller ones i just use this one)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'd be scared to hook anything up to mains though. Knowing me I'd manage to become human popcorn

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now you're just being self deprecating!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You're talking to someone who looks for something they're holding in their hand