Outlets Off while Boonedocking
My wife and I are gearing up for boonedocking, and we just discovered that none of our outlets in the trailer work when not connected to Shorepower. Aside from a generator, what alternatives to we ha...
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pianotuna wrote:
So far as I am aware some panels have 3 bypass diodes (one per string). Others may have only one diode per panel.
Don .... now I'm curious.
A solar panel array with it's panels in parallel with each other could of course still maintain the array's terminal output voltage (but with less total current output capability) if a panel became shaded - using only diodes within/around each panel to somehow isolate it whenever shaded.
I guess I need to see some kind of schematic or circuit diagram as to how - electrically - only a diode arrangement could keep a shaded solar panel from lowering the array's terminal output voltage if all of the array's solar panels are in series with each other?
Maybe panels in series do experience a voltage drop whenever one or more panels are shaded, but solar controllers have a large enough input voltage range to deal with it?
It "seems like", for instance, that a bunch of 24 volt panels in parallel always putting out 24 volts - even with some panels being shaded - into the controller would be a superior arrangement. :h
