Meanwell PS creates a load?
Recently realized that my solar systems daily output had increased by ~50Wh per day when in storage with no shorepower. It was hard to believe that the parasitic loads or the battery self-discharge...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/500-Amp-30-V-Schottky-Rectifier-CPT50130-2-Diodes-/282361292454?hash=item41be0b66a6:m:m2LsZQ25r5ZvdtZBdvngYbg
Mount it up high in a bay. The base the cathode is energized. The anodes have 1/4" bolts which allows size perspective.
- The 10 amp diodes will fail. Please don't ask why
- You need absolute minimum voltage drop across the diode and this baby does it at .17 volt at 40 amps
- Mounted with 1/4" couplers. Standoffs on an non-conductive cargo bay surface
- The base of this is COPPER and serves as the cathode junction - meaning it has electricity.
The "base" ALSO needs mounted to a heat sink (IE chunk of copper, aluminum or even steel)!!!
Operating high current diodes without providing a way to dissipate heat from the diode junction will soon let the smoke packets out of them (and when that happens you can't put the smoke back in) :E
