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brulaz
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Jun 30, 2017

Can you exceed Solar Panels Nominal Max Power?

My Rogue mppt records the daily peak Watts harvested from the solar panels. The other day it recorded a peak of 740W from a nominal 690W solar system (3 panels) while driving down the road. Is thi...
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brulaz
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Jun 30, 2017
mike-s wrote:
BFL13 wrote:
Just a sec! Are you comparing 12v with 24v watts?
Like there's a difference?


Yes, I'm comparing 12V and 24V DC watts.

And since switching to 24V, I'm using Wh a lot more than the Ah standard. So my battery bank went from ~ 430Ah @12V to ~215Ah @24V, but is ~5.16kWh for both.

A problem is that this 5.16kWh is based on the 20hr battery standard, and I see that Trojan only reports kWh (and Ah) for the 100hr rate in their T-105RE brochure.

Things can get confusing fast ...

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