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Richard_Muise
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The low voltage alarm was on in the Barth this morning. My meter said the new house batteries were at only 4-5 volts. The Intellecharger was plugged in. I took the fuse out of the solar panel over my door and the voltage meter went up to 12 volts. My multimeter said the batteries were still down so I flipped my battery isolater switches and put a computerized charger on the house batteries. They are slowly charging and are at 67% right now. Anyone have any ideas???

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Dick Dubbs
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Anyone have any ideas???

I HAVE ONE! Maybe your solar panel was in reverse and your batteries were sending EMF back to the sun. IMHO ROTFLMAO





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Richard_Muise
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Maybe the sun switched polarity! Actually, a ground went bad and the intellecharger had a nervous breakdown. Cost me only $30.00 to get it fixed!


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My inverter/charger warns of leaving it on with other inputs (genset running with engines operating) as they will result in discharge.
 
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