Questions from a guy living in the woods of Maine.
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Re: Questions from a guy living in the woods of Maine.Organic Farmer wrote: »He suggested that a string of 2 with a cheap charge-controller to make 48vdc, could be wired to the battery-bank. As a separate input.
Now, I am thinking, wouldn't that need to be ganged with the primary charge-controller, so the primary charge-controller could 'control' what is happening?
They will work quite well without any communication. Make sure the cheap controller has adjustable settings so that you can set absorb voltage to the same on both controllers.
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Re: Questions from a guy living in the woods of Maine.Organic Farmer wrote: »While talking to one of them, I asked, so okay if I am going to have 2 extra panels, is there any aux thing I can do with them? He suggested that a string of 2 with a cheap charge-controller to make 48vdc, could be wired to the battery-bank. As a separate input.
Now, I am thinking, wouldn't that need to be ganged with the primary charge-controller, so the primary charge-controller could 'control' what is happening?
You should be okay, charge controllers tend to work independent of each other pretty well, even in the past charge controllers with the same setting, will see slight differences and change settings at different times. I have argued that one of the advantages of the 'Whiz Bang Jr.' is that it will allow the Classic to see the extra input from your extra charge controller and help it adjust to properly charge your battery bank.Home system 4000 watt (Evergreen) array standing, with 2 Midnite Classic Lites, Midnite E-panel, Magnum MS4024, Prosine 1800(now backup) and Exeltech 1100(former backup...lol), 660 ah 24v Forklift battery(now 10 years old). Off grid for 20 years (if I include 8 months on a bicycle).
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