So yesterday I wound back the mains charger so that the solar would take on the load during the day. Seems I wound it back a bit far, and the mains charger did almost no work overnight, leaving the battery somewhere around 11.8V.
That’s a wee bit low for my comfort. Yes, they are deep cycle AGMs, but I’d rather not get that low.
Thus, I wound it up a bit, float at 12.8V, so Vboost at 13.6V. That looks to be the sweet spot. Now that the sun is up, I’m getting nice healthy amps of current down the wire from the roof:
The cluster is drawing about 8A, so that’s the cluster powered, and about 6A going to the batteries. It intermittently peaks about 15A or so.
I also found myself fine tuning the Ethernet settings on the border router. For some reason, its Realtek RTL8139 was happy to talk to the Cisco SG-200-08 it was connected to before, but didn’t quite get along with the Linksys LGS326-AU. I’ve told the switch to force 100Mbps full-duplex MDIX (evidently, it’s a cross-over cable), and so far, that seems to have settled things down.
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