MarkMaxPayne
RVF Supporter
- Joined
- May 24, 2023
- Messages
- 86
- Location
- Beaverton, OR
- RV Year
- 2013
- RV Make
- Newmar
- RV Model
- New Aire 3543
- RV Length
- 36'
- Chassis
- Spartan
- TOW/TOAD
- Fiat 500 Turbo
- Fulltimer
- No
I recently purchased a new 2023 New Aire 3543 with their factory installed 640W of Lithionics batteries and 400W of GoPower solar with a Schneider Electric (Xantrex) C40 DVM solar charger. For the life of me it either displays 0 watts or 13 watts, with a solid green status light during the day regardless of battery storage %-age. Even if the batteries drop to 30% or below (even at 16%) the panel says there isn't more than 1.0 array/load current and 13 watts coming in from the panels into the batteries even in dead noon overhead full sun... Needless to say the batteries then automatically shut themselves off.
So... Unlike my previous Battleborn and Victron setup on my previous rig, which was brain dead simple to monitor and diagnose the flow of power throughout the system, this factory OEM setup from Newmar is a bit blackbox and cryptic.
Has anybody figured out how to tell what their solar converter / charger is really doing? Is there a config setting somewhere I can inspect / change? To me it is acting like it thinks it is connected to AGM or Lead Acid Batteries as opposed to Lithium from the factory. Since the voltage stays up there over 13.4V as opposed to dropping over time, it is like the charger thinks the batteries just need a trickle float/maintain vs sending actual bulk charge to them. I've looked in Newgle, but the supporting docs for the Xantrex C-Series Solar Charger don't really say much.
Best,
-Mark
So... Unlike my previous Battleborn and Victron setup on my previous rig, which was brain dead simple to monitor and diagnose the flow of power throughout the system, this factory OEM setup from Newmar is a bit blackbox and cryptic.
Has anybody figured out how to tell what their solar converter / charger is really doing? Is there a config setting somewhere I can inspect / change? To me it is acting like it thinks it is connected to AGM or Lead Acid Batteries as opposed to Lithium from the factory. Since the voltage stays up there over 13.4V as opposed to dropping over time, it is like the charger thinks the batteries just need a trickle float/maintain vs sending actual bulk charge to them. I've looked in Newgle, but the supporting docs for the Xantrex C-Series Solar Charger don't really say much.
Best,
-Mark