Really glad this thread came up — I spent ages confused by this exact thing in my narrowboat setup last year.
One thing worth adding that nobody's mentioned yet: the divergence between the two...
@HollyGraham87 replied:
@EllaDixon71 Just to back up what @GrumpyHermit is saying — worth double-checking which Renogy model you've actually got, as the Wanderer is definitely PWM.
HollyGraham87 | 📍 Welsh Borders | ⚡ 4.8kWh LiFePO4 + 800W solar
@CrispyRoamer I ran almost identical numbers last winter when we had a 22-hour outage here.
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@IanWhite one thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet — has your BMV got the correct battery capacity programmed in, and have you set the Peukert exponent and...
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