macmorph

I was thinking to get the wifi unit for the Tracer so I can use the app to monitor and produce reports... Thanks to all for the replies! Seems my setup isn't at fault then, just a part of winters curse! Ah well, it'll soon be summer and then maybe... I'm going to get the wifi unit and see what reports I can pull off to see how the setup performs over days and weeks. Now I'll stop looking at the Tracer display every half hour ?

Thanks for the reply.... I'll be hoping for a short winter I'll just have to learn to live with low output it seems.... Yep, seems my expectations were way too high! Good to know I didn't do anything wrong in the setup though. Roll on summer!

Thanks David... nice to know I did nothing wrong! Thanks Alan. I can run the engine or generator so I have plenty of power... was just hoping for more solar! Praying for a short winter now

Hello all! I'm struggling and in need of some advice from someone with and understanding of soalr setups. I have 2x 250w panels- Voc 37.8v Isc 8.9A each - connected in parallel to a Tracer PTR4210AN 40A controller feeding 2x 6v Trojan batteries in series giving me 12v at 225Ah. Cable runs are 6mm, about 5mt from the PV to contoller and 1mt from the controller to the batteries. Now, I know the sun is weak now so I shouldn't expect much from them but the controller shows (at best) 30 something v and 1.4A coming in from the PV array, most of the time though it's more like 0.9A. This is far below what I'd expected to get from this setup. Am I being unrealistic? Have I messed up on my selection of components? I'm lost at to what could be wrong...