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Section 6: PentaMetric reference section. ............................................................... 22

6A. Detailed description of each program option (total 49)..................................... 22

How to access program modes with the PentaMetric Display Unit:........................................................22

P1-P5: Switch select;...............................................................................................................................23

P6: “Volts1” label: ....................................................................................................................................23

P7-P9: Amps labels.................................................................................................................................23

P11,P12,P13: Shunt type ........................................................................................................................23

P14,P15: B1 and B2 battery capacity......................................................................................................23

P16: Filter time constant..........................................................................................................................24

P17-P20: Charge control parameters......................................................................................................24

P22-P23: Alarm Levels for battery 1 .......................................................................................................24

P24-P25: Alarm Levels for battery 2. ......................................................................................................24

P26: Batt 1 low battery alarm criteria. .....................................................................................................24

P27: Batt 1 high battery alarm criteria.....................................................................................................24

P28: Batt 2 low battery alarm criteria. .....................................................................................................24

P29: Batt 2 high battery alarm criteria.....................................................................................................24

P30-P31: Relay ON criteria and Relay OFF criteria................................................................................24

P32-Batt1 charged criteria.......................................................................................................................26

P33: Batt2 charged criteria. Same as P32 except for battery system 2.................................................26

P34-P35: Battery efficiency factor and Battery self discharge current....................................................26

P36: Equalize interval..............................................................................................................................26

P37: Maximum Charge interval...............................................................................................................26

P38: Day and time set. ............................................................................................................................27

P39: Periodic logged data: measurement time. ......................................................................................27

P40: Periodic logged data: measurement times/day...............................................................................27

P41and P42: Periodic logged data: Select data.....................................................................................27

P43: Battery discharge profile logged data options:................................................................................27

P44: Backlight options.............................................................................................................................27

P45: Erase periodic data. ........................................................................................................................28

P46: Erase “Battery discharge voltage profile” data................................................................................28

P47 Erase battery 1“battery efficiency cycle” data..................................................................................28

P48: Erase battery 2 “battery efficiency cycle” data................................................................................28

P49: Initialize memory to factory values..................................................................................................28

6.B.Reference section: Detailed description of each display item: ........................ 28

AD1, AD2: Battery1 volts (AD1), Battery 2 volts (AD2)...........................................................................28

AD3, AD4: Average (filtered) battery1 volts (AD3),Average (filtered) Battery 2 volts (AD4)..................28

AD7, AD8, AD9: Amps1 (AD7), Amps2(AD8), Amps3(AD9). .................................................................29

AD10, AD11, AD12:Average (filtered) amps1 (AD10), Average (filtered) amps2 (AD11), Average

(filtered) amps3 (AD12),.........................................................................................................................29

AD13, AD14, AD15: #1Amp-hours (AD13), #2Amp-hours(AD14), #3Amp-hours(AD15)......................30

Using amp hours to keep track of battery energy content (option 1):..................................................30

Using “true” amp hours to measure a charging source (such as daily or weekly solar input), or load

over a period of time (option 2):...........................................................................................................30

AD16, AD17, Cumulative (battery discharging) Amp-hours1(AD16) Cumulative (discharging) Amp-

hours2(AD17) ..........................................................................................................................................30

AD18, AD19, Watts1, Watts2: . ..............................................................................................................31

AD20,AD21 Watt hours1 (AD20), Watt hours2 (AD21)...........................................................................31

AD22, AD23 Battery Percent full 1 (AD22), Battery Percent full2 (AD23) ..............................................31

AD24, AD25 Days since charged, for batt1 (AD24) and batt2 (AD25) ..................................................31

AD26, AD27 Days since equalized, bat1 (AD26) ,bat2 (AD27), .............................................................32

AD28Temperature...................................................................................................................................32

AD29-40: Charge cycle efficiency and self discharge data.....................................................................32

6.C: Reference section: Detailed description of the three Logged data functions:

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