Just a quick note to those that have added a battery with the drifter panel. You need to update the total amp hours on your new battery capacity so it can calculate the % used.
From here I am just guessing but the only time it 'resets' is when it's full. I.e if you have 200 amp hours available and run at 10 amps for 10 hours it thinks you have 10 hours left. If your panel had been configured as only 100 amp hours then it thinks you are at zero. To confuse all that .... it has a learning function whereby if you fully charge and run down your battery it will 'know' your batteries are 200AH. Warning this is from the manual and like most blokes I only read it until I got confused and then put it away again.
So hook the spare panel thru the shunt and update your total amp hours for more accuracy.
Yep that's correct. You can actually set the AH manually on the drifter and then it has the learning function you run through after setting.
I did this when I added my 2nd battery and after adding the solar to the shunt.
It gives me quite accurate information now.
I'd be interested to see how this all works via the new JHub setup now.
