Hooking up the PV Controller We purchased a new battery and a new power controller, and are hooking them up to our PV panel to charge the battery: The power controller has a terminal strip with connections for the battery, load, and PV panel: The red LED on the left means the power controller is charging the battery, and the green LED means the power to the load is on: This article comes from Solar Power: http://solarpower.org/ The URL for this story is: http://solarpower.org/art14.html Copyright 1998-2006 SolarPower.org. Read our Terms of Use.