NinerBikes wrote:
SCVJeff wrote:
Mountaintop power is as bad or worse than the worst CG feeds. They are always at the end of the line, and anythng hanging on the AC can be a cause or victum. A simple window A/C can and does bounce the building. So, yeah...we want them on ultra clean, low impedance power resistant to all that.
Can it then be implied that the Iota charge controller, then, delivers ultra clean DC power to all the batteries, regardless of voltage input? How do they filter the output? Have you scoped the output?
The Iota is a more expensive charge controller than a PD, does it make a difference when you are running a Honda Eu2000i for your generator and 120v power source?
Keep in mind, I am a layman with this stuff, you might have to dumb it down for me a bit to comprehend.
Dont forget that you have ~450ah of capacitor cleaning up its output. I went for the IOTA because I've used them in remote mtntop service for ham gear for years and they just sit up there and run and our analog voice gear detect lousy power long before these radios. I had a couple of questions before I bought all those IOTA's and the engineering team were happy to talk about what it does or what it should do. What I really want is something that works as well as the old IBM 12V analog supplies. Set em' and forget em. They will run full load all day long, no sag, no ripple, no noise. Lowbanders loved them. IOTA is very close.