100w portable solar report
Yesterday March 8 we had full sun here at Roosevelt Lake, AZ. My two Group 27 batteries read 12.52v at the start of the day, measured at the batteries with the Turnigy WattMeter. I used it to collec...
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full_mosey wrote:Snowman9000 wrote:
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When on pc, I will comment on lack of float mode. In short, it doesn't matter for my use. Think about it.
Don't worry about the lack float. After the sun goes down, the charging stops anyway. In the AM, the charge cycle starts over.
Plus, during the day, the current will decrease to nothing. I have seen my turnigy read 0A late in the day. That is not going to hurt anything.
HTH;
John
Right, thanks. That's what I was getting at. And at low amps the pulses are spread out quite a bit.
To clarify my comparison with my ebay PWM controller, it drops down to 13.8 in absorption when the MS would still be in the 14's. So it's not going to put as many watts in as the MS controller if time is short. I don't know about RJ's controller, obviously. I'm all for ebay bargains though.
