Diverting excess solar power to water heater
I'm about to install 1300 watts of solar. During part of the day I should have excess solar power left over. I plan on using the MidNite Solar Classic 150 MPPT controller which allows the excess pow...
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Kayteg1 wrote:
You can't run 1400W inverter on excess solar that will deliver much less than 1400W.
You'd need batteries to compensate for the difference what would not make much sense.
I would simply run the inverter from main battery bank at noon (when batteries are already full charged) and even when inverter discharge the batteries to some degree, the WH will turn off after about 30 minutes, so solar will top off the batteries.
Question is how to make the system working automatically as manual monitoring and switching would be too much hassle for me.
Are we talking 1300W of solar on RV?
If so, I want to see a picture.
I think you are confused.
The discussion is about running a 600 watt element with excess power produced by the OP's 1300 watt solar.
