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Abnormally high battery voltage

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    • #16978
      Matt Barney
      Participant
        We have 2 stations we’ve recently deployed which are reporting ~7.5 volts during the day and 4.2V at night (graphs attached).

        I suspect that the solar cable was accidentally plugged into one of

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      • #16980
        TomG2
        Participant

          I am curious, did this just start or when you look back on battery voltage has it been doing this foe a while ? TomG2

        • #16981
          Matt Barney
          Participant

            These were just deployed 3 days ago and have been doing this from the beginning.

          • #16983
            Shannon Hicks
            Moderator
              Matt, you are correct that it appears the solar panel was connected to the spare LipoBatt JST socket on the Mayfly, which causes the board to see those high levels during the day.  The voltage regula
            • #16989
              neilh20
              Participant
                For the solar connecter, I colour the socket and the jack in an acrylic orange so that there is a visual match. The LiIon battery in a cooler blue.   Of course have to be careful to only get the acr
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