Put the Solar to the test.
So just a bit of back ground. I tried to dig up my original post for a reference but failed to find it. So the long and the short of it is: I bought a 20fq Creek Side and had 300w of solar installed ...
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rjxj wrote:I don't know.. so far it's so small I haven't noticed a thing.
.. wonder what the conversion loss is when going from 48 back to 12.
CA Traveler wrote:The smaller wire is of course a real benefit. A/c runs no problem.
...what is your analysis/summary/expectation of your setup?
There's one thing I didn't even think about..the inverter idle draw. The specs say less than one amp AT 48V. Well.. that's 4 amps @ 12v. So, there's a definite disadvantage there. But with 640ah of batteries, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. It might matter more to someone else.
It's very likely I'll have a 50% off sale on some 24v system stuff..soon.
