One day when the sun was out, Alex noticed that the solar charger was reading very low output amps. Given that we rely mostly on solar power for charging our batteries, this would be a huge deal if something were wrong with our panels and or the charging system. Luckily, Tim trouble shooted pretty quickly and the culprit ended up being a connector at the panels that had corroded due to exposure. It was exposed more than it should have been because way back in Mexico we had place a bulky ferrite in the vicinity in hopes of lessening the noise from the solar charging in our SSB radio. Tim quickly replaced the connector, and it turned out that we started seeing much higher solar production. We wonder if the connector had slowly degraded and had been negatively impacting performance for some time.
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