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(c) After the data is changed to your liking, push the RESET(program) button again to install
the new data, and to resume viewing other program data.
(4) Continue or Exit: Provided that the cursor is not still flashing, (indicating you are not in the
program change mode) you may use the up/down switches to observe other programmed data, or
push the “OTHER DISPLAYS” button to exit this mode.
P1-P5: Switch select;
These allow assignment of each of the five “select” switches on the display unit to its desired display
options. For example, you could assign switch 1 to display only “Volts 1”, and switch 2 to display
“Amps 1 and Amps3” and switch 3 to show Amp-hr1 and Amp-hr 2 and Watt-Hr2. P1 provides the
selections for switch 1, P2 for switch 2, etc, up to P5. From 1 to 5 display items maximum can be
allocated to each switch. Select an item by putting its “AD number”, which is listed for each display
choice in the next section 6.B. (For example, “Battery 2 volts”, AD2 would be represented by “02”.
Install them from left to right. If you wish to display fewer than 5 items, enter “0” as the next item. No
items listed to the right of the “0” will display.
P6: “Volts1” label:
Allows choice of display label for “volts 1” The two choices “Bat 1 volts” or “Bat volts” are the only ones
possible. Typically “Bat 1” will be only used if you are monitoring two battery banks, so you can
distinguish them. If you are only using one battery system, “Bat” is usually preferable. Note: Volts 2 is
always called “Bat 2”, and can’t be relabeled.
P7-P9: Amps labels.
These allow choice of display identification labels that are more descriptive than, for example #1Amps
or #1Watts. Using this you can change these to be, for example “Sol Amps” , “Sol Watts” and “Sol
Amp-hr”, or “Bat Amps”, “Bat Watts” and “Bat Amp-hr” .
In each case your choices for the identifying prefix are: Sol, Wind, Hydro, Load, Bat1 or Bat
P7: Specifies a label prefix that applies to the following display modes: Amps1 (AD7), Average
Amps1 (AD10), Amp-hours1 (AD13), Watts1 (AD18) and Watt-hours1 (AD20).
P8: Specifies a label prefix that applies to the following display modes: Amps2 (AD7), Average
Amps2 (AD10), Amp-hours2 (AD13), Watts2 (AD18) and Watt-hours2 (AD20).
P9: Specifies a label prefix that applies to the following display modes: Amps3 (AD7), Average
Amps3 (AD10) and Amp-hours3 (AD13).
Refer to AD7-AD9 (section 6.B) “Program mode P7, P8 and P9” for more details.
P11,P12,P13: Shunt type
These select shunt type that is used for Amp1, Amp2 and Amp3 channels. These must be set to the
shunt types you are using, or the corresponding “amps” and “amp hour” values will be wrong by a
factor of 10. Refer to AD7,8,9 (section 6.B) Program mode P11, P12 and P13, “shunt type” for
more details on programming these.
P14,P15: B1 and B2 battery capacity.
P14 is for battery 1 and P15 is for battery 2. The “B1 battery” refers to the battery (if any) measured by
#1Amps and Volts 1. The “B2 battery” refers to the battery (if any) measured by #2Amps and Volts 2.
If a battery is being monitored by #1Amps/Volts1, then enter a value of amp hours in P14 that you
wish to assume for your battery system capacity. This value can be from 1 to 9,999 amp hours ,
indicating the battery bank capacity. The value entered here will influence the “battery % full” displays,
AD22, as explained more fully in section 7. It also determines when the “Battery discharge profile
logged data” is recorded (since the number of amp hours represented by 5% change in capacity is
determined by this). For more detail on this function, see section:7 “How the PentaMetric keeps
track of battery state of charge” It will also affect the “battery low” and “battery high” alarm functions,
and the “relay” set points, which are all referenced to “battery capacity” as entered in P14, 15,
IMPORTANT: If “Amp#1” or “Amp#2” is being used to monitor something else beside a battery
bank, such as solar or wind input amps, be sure to try to enter a “0” as “P14:battery capacity”,
which will result in “Not Used” being displayed. This will cause the #1 “amp hour” (or #2 Amp hour)