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DC1 Setup
The meter provides setup settings for each battery. To access these settings, first go to the Setup menu. Scroll to the desired battery label followed by
Setup (such as DC1 Setup), then press
Select
.
NOTE:
Some settings may not be available for all batteries.
The battery setup settings are described below. To make a change, scroll to setting and press
Enter
. Press the
LEFT
or
RIGHT
arrow buttons to
view the available setting options. Press
Enter
to save the setting. Press
Cancel
to cancel a change.
Enable
To display the battery and its measurements, change this setting to
ON
. If enable is
OFF
, the battery along with its measured values will not be displayed.
However, any associated alarm settings are still active. To de-activate the alarm, disable them in the Alarm Setup menu.
Set State-of-Charge (SoC) to FULL
When this option is selected, the meter will consider the battery’s present State-of-Charge to be
FULL
. To do this, scroll to
Ok
and press
Select
.
The screen will then return to the meter summary display.
Battery Voltage
This setting indicates the nominal voltage of the battery. The options are 12V, 24V, 36V, & 48V. This is automatically set by CZone.
Bat. Type
This setting indicates the battery type. The available options are listed below:
• FLStd - Standard Flooded Lead Acid Batteries
• AGM - Standard Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) Batteries
• TPPL - Thin Plate Pure Lead AGM Batteries
• GEL - Gel Batteries
• FLRsv - Flooded Acid Reserve. Premium Flooded Lead Acid Batteries such as Rolls.
• FLLoM - Flooded Low Maintenance. Sealed Flooded Lead Acid Batteries
• FFFL - Firefly AGM Batteries
Bat. Capacity
This setting indicates the capacity of the battery in amp-hours. The available range is 0A to 5000A. This is automatically set by CZone.
Full Chrg Volts
This setting indicates the voltage at which the battery is considered to be fully charged. The available range is 0.1 V to 70.0V. This should be set to the
absorption voltage of your charger. If you don’t know the absorption voltage, you can figure the absorption voltage out by observing the output voltage
of the charger once it enters the absorption phase. If you have multiple charging sources, set it to the higher absorption voltage. In extremely hot or cold
temperatures the absorption voltage will need to be set slightly higher (for cold) or slightly lower (for hot). This is automatically set by CZone.
Example 1.
In Blue Seas Systems’ P12 Charger this parameter is called the
Absorb Voltage
. For lead acid values, the default value is 14.5 V DC. So in
the M2 the
Full Chrg Volts
setting would be set slightly smaller than the 14.5 V (14.4 V).
Example 2.
An unknown 10 A charger is connected to a partially discharged battery. Initially the meter should read approximately 10 A of charging current
with the voltage increasing over time. At some point (around 14.5-14.8 V DC) the voltage should stabilize and the charging current will start decreasing.
This voltage is the Full Charge Voltage. Set the
Full Chrg Volts
to 0.1 V below the observed voltage.
