Hawke’s Bay
Manual
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Quiet Time Disable
= Talks 24 hours a day.
o
Quiet Time Enable
= Has Start Quiet and End Quiet time settings. When activated,
Voice will be silenced between the times listed during a 24-hour period.
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Saving Alert
: OFF/ON
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Status Interval
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Error Interval
SETUP / BATTERY CONFIG
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Absorb
–
Sets the Absorb charge cycle voltage. This comes from the battery
manu
facturer. Sometimes called “Bulk,” “Constant Voltage,” or “Boost” charge voltage.
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Absorb Time
–
Amount of time the
Hawke’s Bay
stays in the Absorb charging cycle.
Lithium batts usually have no to little Absorb time. Flooded and sealed usually use this
formula
…
(Batt Bank 20hr Ah rating / Charging Amps) x 0.42 = Absorb Time
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Absorb Skip Days
–
Hawke’s Bay
goes to Float for XX days, as programmed.
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Float
–
Sets the Float voltage. Float is like a trickle charger, occurs after the Absorb cycle.
Keeps batts full remainder of day.
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Float Time
–
Amount of time
Hawke’s Bay
stays in Float.
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EQ
–
Sets the Equalization (EQ) battery maintenance cycle voltage. Not applicable with
Lithium batteries.
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EQ Time
–
Amount of time in EQ. Best to EQ in one-hour cycles, let batts rest, measure
the specific gravity of every cell. EQ until the cells are at or less than 0.025 S.G. apart.
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Rebulk
–
Battery voltage setpoint, below Float, that once reached causes the
Hawke’s Bay
to start a new charge cycle … Bulk –
Absorb
–
Float.
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Ending Amps
–
Amp setpoint at which the batts are fully charged. Commonly 1
–
3% of
the bank’s (20
-hr) Ah rating. The
Hawke’s
Bay will go to Float when the Absorb Timer
counts down to 0 or when Ending Amps is reached, whichever occurs first. Using Ending
Amps is a better way to charge the batt bank properly and fully.
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Battery Capacity -
Enter the bank’s 20
-hr, Ah rating. If the bank consists of parallel
strings, multiple the 20-hr rating of one battery by the number of parallel strings.
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Amp Hour Efficiency
–
Set to Auto and will consider the Batt Chemistry type selected.
Or manually program a specific %. Most Flooded batts start at 80%; Sealed/Gel batts at
85%; Lithium
–
94%.
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Chemistry -
Loads up typical, default charging voltages for the selected chemistry. Useful
if the batt specs are unknown. Chemistry selection only available at start-up.
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Max Charge -
This limits the
Hawke’s Bay’s DC amps to the batt bank. Check the batt
specs. If the max charging amps for one batt is 50A, for example, and you have one string of
batts, then the max is 50A. If you have two strings, then the max is 100A (2 x 50A).
