Getting the most from your Solar Battery Charging and Monitoring system

Notes and documentation for all products.

Comments on Peukert’s relation

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IRS Tax Credit for residential alternative energy equipment

All Meters

application/pdf icon Checking batteries AND battery connections using a multimeter

Checking Electrolyte Specific Gravity of Lead-acid Batteries

TriMetric TM-2030

Mounting Drawing for TM-2030-A or TM-2025-A

Mounting Drawing for TM-2030-RV or TM-2025-RV

Using TriMetric for measuring only wind or solar charging source (PDF) 65 KB

One way to adapt the TriMetric for systems with system voltages above 48V (PDF) 19 KB

Monitoring and Battery Basics: Using TriMetric to maintain battery systems for those with less technical background.

Using CAT5 cable up to 350 ft. for TriMetric

Battery Shunts – What they are & why you need one

Technical Explanation of Electrical Shunts

Understanding “RPC” Replaced Percent Charge

How to Select a Battery Monitor for Your RV

SC-2030 Solar Charger

What is Amp-hrs based charging & why it is important

Recommended solar panel wiring scheme for SC-2030

Workaround for Deficiencies of Shore Power Converter/Chargers

PWM vs MPPT for RVs and Campers

Low Temperature Charging Cut-off – What is it & Why is it needed

PentaMetric

Technical specifications and summary of PentaMetric functions (PDF) 107 KB

PentaMetricRS232SerialSpecWeb6-11.pdf

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Bug list and history for PentaMetric (RTF) 11 KB

How to set up PentaMetric for recording and graphing logged data

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Display Unit front panel label template.

How to intrepret PentaMetric Periodic Log Data file

Programming the TM-2030 and the SC-2030 Solar Charger

Instructions for entering charging parameter data into your into your TM-2030