460 watt solar setup: wire sizes?
I want to change out my old 50 watt panel and 10 amp controller with at least one and hopefully two 230 watt 24 volt panels and whatever controller would be best. Right now the roof on my fifth wheel ...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi BFL13,
Suppose potentially 16 amps are coming from the panels, but only 8 are going to the battery bank. The other 8 would be diverted to water heating (for example).
Without diversion loading those 8 amps are lost and not used because the charging has tapered to 8 amps.
Well I am saying the other 8 would go to the load anyway (battery voltage drops under load so it accepts more amps). I believe I have seen that many times. However, this calls for another test! :) (Getting dark now, too late today)
