September 30, 20232 yr Good day,Can someone please help me. I have a synapse 3.0v+ hooked up to 2 x 100 a/h Vito deep cycle gel batteries. I dont have panels at this point in time. We chose this small system because we have electricity bills of circa R650 per month and its purely for back up fop some lights ,dstv and router. These are my second set of batteries based on advice received that i dont need lithium if my settings are good. It was working very well until I connected the pool pump directly to the system in error.(There is a dedicated circuit to my DSTV , and thats where we plugged it in.) Now having taken the pool pump away we only benefit from around 20 mins of backup down from 2+ hours. I noticed that the led screen on the invertor shows 25% charged.It has always only shown 25% even when it worked ok. I contacted the supplier who told me i need a lithium battery which he could gladly provide. Thanks for that ! Why didn't you warn me when you sold me the gel battery? Questions are: Have i destroyed my second set of batteries? Could it be the 25% charged need changing as there is less time between load shedding than there was before. Batteries read 13.5v Any advice will be gladly received> (And yes,next time i will go to a more repuatable supplier and hopefully get the right advice.
October 1, 20232 yr Can you shear your float , bulk and low cut of volts . Good quality gel batteries will last you if you lucky about 4 years as my gel batteries did , now I'm on lithium. .
October 2, 20232 yr Author Thanks GMAc, I am not sure what to shear the float means. I am trying to find a technician locally to assit me. I will go to Lithium in due course but will probably look at a bigger system at that stage. THX Brooks
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