Cant really explain what happened today !
Went out with a full battery , drove the 10 mile jaunt , had the pump running for almost an hour , then i made this vid .
Solar was non existant today due to cloud , only quarter of an amp came in prior to video , i had used 3+ amps , usually the system would have been in bulk mode , but it wasnt , it was still on float , i had not even driven far at all , maybe 50 m within the hour of work .
After the video i had another hour of solid pump running , so all in there would have been around 7 amps use , could not verify this as due to having very little solar the amp meters had shut down due to having no feed , which they normaly do !
So i drive the 10 mile home again by which time the sun has popped out and powered up the amp meters , i can still see that 7 amps has gone out but have no record of whats come in , but i do have an mppt contoller telling me that i am in float mode and fully charged !
So all i can assume is that i have used 7 amps and had maybe 1 amp of solar in , the other 6 amps that got replaced must have come from the van alternator on the way home and maybe 1 mile of driving whilst at work between houses .
Im hoping that this is the case as if so it looks like i have got it cracked .
What i need is a full day of work with the amp meters not switching themselves off to properly clarify , but i got home with a fully charged battery anyway , so whatever happened or how it happened who cares eh
https://youtu.be/REcsggOOhMY