[Spruce]

See Spring have launched their awaited new V16 controllers with off button (at last, I've been crying for this upgrade for years) and has reversed polarity protection.

https://springltd.co/v16

This should be good!

[Smudger]

yes, some nice improvements

Darran

[Shrek]

What difference does it make having an on/off button? Surely it’ll work exactly the same as holding the ‘enter’ button?

[Stoots]

What difference does it make having an on/off button? Surely it’ll work exactly the same as holding the ‘enter’ button?

I've always found the lack of an on/off switch a bit annoying.

In my last van, I wired in a switch before the controller to turn it on and off.

The issue is you have to press and hold for a second, there's a bit of lag before it turns off. If you have a big glove on or maybe big fingers it's easy to press it and accidentally change the function rather than turning it off.

This happens  to me everyday, I go to switch it off and it turns to bat or cal and then I start changing settings by accident, its a minor frustration but I always thought it was a daft design why not just have an on/off button.

[Spruce]

What difference does it make having an on/off button? Surely it’ll work exactly the same as holding the ‘enter’ button?

Because it switches the controller completely off so its not consuming residual current in 'standby' mode.

My only experience is with Varistream controllers and the last VSD6 used a fair amount of current in standby mode. We lost 25% of a fully charged 85amph battery during a week of inactivity.
I swapped the battery with another and it did the same to the 'replacement' battery. The suppliers of Varistreams down played this and suggest I fit an isolator switch before the controller if I was that concerned about it.

[dazmond]

In 10 years of wfp its never been an issue if my controller is slowly draining my batteries as when I've had a week or two off I always charge my batteries overnight the night before as a matter of course....its an ingrained habit.....

As for reversed polarity protection......well I suppose that's a good thing as some of you seem to do it on a regular basis...😱👎