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Voltage Display for Starter Battery and Board Battery:
The two voltage rates of the board battery and the starter battery will be displayed at choice. The most interesting range of
the battery voltage, from the total discharge to the maximum charging voltage, will be displayed clearly.
The luminous spot display supplies a quite precise display of the battery voltage rates, since also the intermediate values are
clearly legible due to the different brightness of the adjacent luminous spots. At the push of a button, the voltage of board
or starter battery can be selected, or the display can be switched-off. In case of low battery voltage rates, red pilot lamps
indicate that battery recharging is required.
Operation:
If the key is actuated, the voltage of the board battery will be displayed, and the LED “board” will be lighting.
If the key is actuated for a second time, it will be switched to the starter battery. The LED “Start” is lighting.
If the key is actuated for a third time, the display will be switched-off.
If the starter battery is not connected, the lowest LED “10.5” is lighting dimly at least brightness.
10 minutes after the last activity, the display will be switched-off automatically for reasons of power saving.
Display:
The voltage is indicated by a lighting LED on the scale.
Simultaneous lighting of 2 light-emitting diodes indicates a voltage between the corresponding values.
EXAMPLE: If the two LEDs “12.5 V” and “13 V” are lighting with identical brightness, the battery voltage is 12.75 V.
If the brightness of the light-emitting diodes is different, the battery voltage tends to the light-emitting diode
being the brighter one.
The range of operation of the lead battery 12 V is indicated by the red and green light-emitting diodes, and it is valid for
inferior to normal load (current consumption) of the battery. Green means o. k.!
If powerful consumers with high current consumption are used, such as inverters, the battery voltage might drop below
11 V.
However, if the display is in the red range without any battery load or in case of only inferior battery load, the
corresponding battery should be recharged immediately.
If the voltage "10.5 V" is reached, switch-off all consumers in order to avoid total discharge of the battery. Now, recharging
is highly recommended !
Several times of total discharge result in loss of capacity or in destruction of the battery!
Never leave lead storage batteries in discharged condition !
Automatic Protection against Total Discharge and Remote-controlled Main Switch:
An efficient protection against totally discharged batteries is ensured by installation of a VOTRONIC Battery
Protector, which effects an automatic separation of battery and consumers.
Battery Protector 40 (12 V, to 40 A load current), order No. 3075 or
Battery Protector 100 (12 V, to 100 A load current), order No. 3078.
It can also be used as efficient, remote-controlled main-switch. For this purpose, connect terminal “8” of the Info Panel Pro
to the “Sense +” cable of the battery protector. Refer also to its operating manual, paragraph “Remote Control”.
In this case, the consumers are connected to the Battery Protector. and output “2a “+” consumers board battery” of the
Info Panel Pro is not used.
