Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #60054 in Home Improvement
- Brand: Morningstar
- Model: SS-6
Features
- 100% Solid State.
- Rated for 25% Overloads.
- Marine rated terminals, anodized case.
- Fully Encapsulated in epoxy potting.
- Sealed/Flooded battery selectable.
SunSaver 6 Charge Controller 12V 6A
Product Description
A high quality, reliable and economically priced charge controller from Morningstar. Features their advanced PWM pulse charging algorithm.
Other features include selectable battery type and temperature compensation.
The Sunsaver 6 is for 12V systems with a max. solar input of 6.5 amps. Dimensions 6" X 2.2", wt. 0.5 lb.
Specifications:
Model #: SS-6-12V
(low voltage disconnect): No
Vdc (voltage direct current): 12 V
Solar Amps: 6.5 A
Load Amps: 6 A
Weight: 1 lb./ .45 kg
Dimensions: 5.9" x 2.1" x 1.3" / 149.86 x 53.34 x 33.02 mm
Warranty info: 5 year warranty from manufacturer
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great controller, charges both flooded and sealed batteries
By Loring
This unit is a sturdy, well designed unit with good documentation. I use it in my travel trailer with a 43 watt panel to charge both a sealed (Optima) battery and a flooded (Interstate) battery. Normally, that selection would be made with a shunt that is provided, but I have set it up with a switch instead of the shunt, so I can change from the flooded mode (14.4V) to the sealed mode (14.1V), depending on which of my two batteries I'm charging. LVD (low voltage disconnect) is not required in this application. I've been using this controller for about 2 years and have been very pleased.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.It may not do what you want it to-- Make Sure You Understand Solar Controller Before Buying
By AstroSeeker
Update:After some experience with this Solar Controller, and some help from the other reviewer - Loring, I begin to understand how it work.This Solar Controller works the way it suppose to. The way I understand is that the Solar Controller monitor the batteryvoltage in real time and adjust the current appropriately. Thus in the beginning of the charging process, the batteryvoltage is low (idealy for an empty battery) and the controller will feed it large current. As the battery voltageincrease, the current is reduced until at end of the charging process, when the current is zero.This is the idea situation and this controller does work in that manner. However that may not always result in rapid charge.Most of the time we charge the battery when it does not run our devices anymore. This happen, not when the battery iscompletely empty but, when its voltage is too low to run your devices. Unfortunately, sometime in thisstate the battery still has high voltage. For example after running my battery operated fan for 60 hours, my 12V battery become 10V.But the fan is no longer running. At this point, I considered the battery empty. And when I attempted to charge it with my solarpannel and the solar controller, the battery voltage quickly (in about 1 minute) rise to 12.5 Voltage.Thus in my case, only after a few minutes of charging, the Solar Controller "think" my battery is almost full and itprovide only 0.5 Amp. In reality my battery is far from full and I believe it can handle at least 1Amp to 1.5Amps (even 2Amps),without harm.So this solar controller is doing what it suppose to, proctecting my battery. Unfortunately in this way I think it maytake too long to charge. Perhaps this is the way solar controller suppose to work but I could not help feelingthat this is not very efficient. The solar controller will take the full Amps from the Solar Pannel onlywhen the battery voltage is very low. But I think this situation will rarely occur as I explained above. Or perhaps it is because my battery is too new?I wish I know about this before I bought this product. There is nothing about this in the instruction manual. Theonly way I found out is to use a Power Analyzer to monitor the charge. If you only have a multimeter you will notsee this.So before you buy a Solar Controller make sure you understand how Solar Controller suppose to work. Read all thereviews and comments for this product, before you buy.I do need to said that if a load (like light bulb or a laptop) is connected to the battery while charging, the Amps doincrease to something twice the value without the load. Thus this Solar Controller does work the way it suppose to.I only have issue when the battery is charged without the load.---------------------------------------Previous Review-----------------------------------------------------------OK this is my first Solar Controller so I do not understand it very much. But this does work the way it suppose to.I has some small issues:1 The green LED will turn on to indicate it is charging but in the bright sun light, it is a bit hard to see that it is on.2 I don't know if this is part of the function of the solar controller (as I said this is my first one) but how do you know when charging is complete? will that green LED turn red to indicate charging is complete? The instruction said a red LED indicate that the charge controller has disconnected.3) I used a power analyzer to monitor the current, voltage, power in real time. Perhaps this is due to my lack of experience with the solar controller but I don't understand why my solar pannel current is about 2.5 Amps but the current being delievered into the battery is only 0.3 to 0.5 Amps. My rechargeable can take more than that (at least 1.5 Amps). There does not seems to be any ways to set the amount of Amps that the Solar Conntroller will send to the battery.However I thing some of my issues may be due to the fact that I do not understand Solar Controller. For example I don't know what is meant bya flushed battery and a sealed battery and when to set the shunt that is provided by this charge controller.Overall, I am very happy with this charge controller and I would recommend it.One thing, I am not sure it will works with battery above 12V like 15V or 18V.
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