Solar Boost 2000E input voltage

Re: Solar Boost 2000E input voltage

In general, a good quality MPPT controller will "manage" it output current and internal temperatures even with presented with an edge of cloud event (the MPPT is designed to self limit)--so I would not worry at all.

A PWM solar charge controller does not need to "know" its output current--so the less expensive ones may have an issue...

However, current for a solar panel actually drops a tiny bit as the panels cool off (current output is pretty much flat with temperature for our needs here).

The Edge of Clouds event is both a lensing and a temperature effect (increasing voltage from cool panels and somewhat increasing current due to lensing)--and since a PWM charge controller cannot convert the "voltage rise" into added current output--the Edge of Cloud effect would be much less noticeable for a PWM controller.

So--I would doubt that a good quality PWM controller would be affected much (if at all) by such an event.

-Bill