Solar panels are not charging battery

Solar panels are not charging battery

I'm working on my girlfriend's van

I have the van parked with direct sunlight hitting the solar panels on the roof of the van

When I open the victron app, the voltage of the "solar" and the 'battery" are essentially the same, currently showing 12.09v.

The solar "current" says 0 amps

The solar is showing 0 watts being generated

What is going on? How do I troubleshoot this?

This is an existing setup that is supposed to be working and has not been physically changed at all, but she's been saying the battery has not been getting charged lately but the solar.

Edit: thanks people. I guess the main question is why would the panels not be generating power and charging the system while parked in direct sunlight? I HAVE seen them up as high as 16 volts and that was even on an overcast day. I have no idea why this is happening

u/Wooden_Sweet_3330 — 9 days ago
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cabinet hinge replacements

hi yall

i have a bunch of broken soft close hinges in this place I just moved into that I want to replace.

i bought a bunch of IKEA KOMPLEMENT soft close hinges only to find the holes don't line up with the ones that I removed from the cabinet door.

i then later learned the komplement hinges are apparently made specifically for their PAX wardrobe and have nonstandard holes.

I see they have UTRUSTA soft close hinges for cabinets, but my Brave browser AI is telling me these are not a standard cabinet hinge, even though they're made by BLUM.

Is that really true? I have 7 cabinet doors I need to fix, I'd prefer to just buy 7 soft close hinges, but it seems like hinges always come in pairs of two, 1 soft close - one normal. I am guessing they do that because they want you to replace both hinges on the door instead of just one?

will the UTRUSTA hinges actually work, though?

I tried googling the name I see on the hinges I removed, but it's not coming up with anything.

u/Wooden_Sweet_3330 — 22 days ago

How do I remove these sliding closet doors??

Please help me God I can't figure out how to get these closet sliding doors off.

They are in tracks along the top of the door. They do not swing or tilt from the bottom at all. I can't lift them up, I can't turn them. This is the track mechanism in the top.

Please help save my day. The carpet guy is coming tomorrow and they need the doors to be off

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u/Wooden_Sweet_3330 — 2 months ago

So I have a friend who never pays their parking tickets. They get so many parking tickets, but after they get a few they go to ICBC and get a new license plate so their car doesn't get towed the next time they get a ticket. They only do this with the city of Vancouver parking tickets, because private lots like Impark etc will tow your vehicle immediately if you're parked there and they find you have an outstanding parking ticket. City of Vancouver only tows your vehicle after you have X amount of outstanding tickets. How many, I'm not sure.

How does the city not pick up on this? How does ICBC just allow them to get a new license plate for no reason? How is this not coming around to bite them somehow?

When I googled what happens if you don't pay parking tickets it says it goes to collections and grows and grows in the amount and negatively affects your credit if you just never pay it.

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u/Wooden_Sweet_3330 — 2 months ago