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Re: Anyone thought of adding a Electric vehicle charging station to their existing off grid system?
Really pointless to add batteries to charge a car after sun hours. Add another 5Kw of PV panels & charge controller and use your existing setup, or charge in town. The cost and wear/tear on a bat…1 · -
Re: High voltage input warning
Just guessing and tossing out things to consider Is the voltage warning on the PV side or the Battery side ? Have the days been unusually cool or sunny ? i see no need to have 4 panels in series, to …2 · -
Re: Trying to understand how much Voltage is coming out of one Conext MPPT 80-600 Charge Controller
The way a MPPT controller works, is watts in = watts out (minus a couple % consumed as heat and to power the electronics) at 55V charging the battery - you could expect 116 amps, but the controller h…1 · -
Re: 20 amp fuse for 300watt Solar?
2 panels in parallel, no over current required. 3 or more in parallel, each panel needs a fuse or breaker as specified on the sticker on the back of the panel. Breakers let you turn off a string at a…1 · -
Re: 30 kw Grid Tie System
Please consider string inverters instead of micros, especially with as many as you would be installing. Even with just a few failures, the labor involved to open up a path in the array to the dud, wi…1 ·
