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Homeless_by_Cho
Explorer
Jun 21, 2015

Please Review/Comment on my proposed solar install

I am presently mounting two solar panels on my truck camper roof, wiring them in series to a controller, and then to two deep cycle batteries (each 105 A-Hr). I plan on putting a 15 Amp fuse between ...
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3_tons
Explorer III
Jun 23, 2015
CJW8 wrote:
Don says you may not want to bother with MPPT but I disagree. Why throw away 10-15% of your solar production by not going MPPT?


X2, MPPT will dynamically optimize harvest by lowering the voltage while maximizing the current... With battery recovery it's all about current - voltage is the slave...

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