yes, a personal choice, of course. To be fair, this is the first time I've seen this last issue arise in many years of PP clone uses. And it's not that big of a deal to hold the wires when pushing the connectors together to ensure the connection is sound. Or check them quickly afterwards...
and another discovered issue with (I think) chinese PP clones. I was testing various configurations of a small solar system. At some point it just stopped working altogether. Everything appears connected, the various pieces of equipment are fine. Puzzled. Finally, I find out that one of...
And another one (see DC/DC thread):
I put too much (but much less than the nominal) current on a cheap chinese meter with powerpoles ends. The powerpole melted just a bit and interrupted the circuit. Had to check every connector to finally find this one. Sheesh... Maybe my honeymoon with...
yup, the size jump between the PP45 and the SB50 is just too much, so I stick with PPs whenever possible. They do have larger PP style housings though, but not used those yet and don't know how they would compare in size to the SB50. Should look into that, but for what I do, with the exception...
yup, of course the advantage of the pin is that it's removable, but I learned my lesson, and it's not like those tongue and grooves are very strong to start with. I've seen several broken apart by now.
So I am checking my Victron power history on my solar maintenance panel for my 80. Oddly I see that there was no power produced yesterday.
That's odd. I check the V Connect app battery voltages and see some odd numbers, like the charger is floating, the battery voltage is at 14.4 or 13.8V...