panel wire AWG to controller
Ok so the ts-MPPT-60 is on its way, I put the card board cut outs on the roof just to make sure the panels fit as I thought and now on to more planning. I check a few voltage drop calculators for t...
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pianotuna wrote:
What the heck, it is his time, his labor and (I suspect) his FUN. Test away ...
Yes.
Shading tests won't be too easy. He would have to actually install panels, at their actual height above the roof. Then, on a few nearly identical and clear days, measure the daily AH draw - the only thing that matters, IMO - with parallel and series wiring (and with different wire gauge?)...
The results will be peculiar to the OP – to his particular panels, height of panels, proximity to roof structures and his particular location.
