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Cdash
Explorer
Jan 19, 2016

Solar - anyone regret getting PWM charge controller?

Looking to do a solar installation and have been studying up. Think I'm pretty good on most of it, however, still struggling with the charge controller. As I understand it, the PWM kind of "chops of...
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Slownsy
Explorer
Jan 20, 2016
The way I see it the main resen for not using PWM is cheaper panels cheaper wire but more ekspensiv controller, and if partial shade less pover and bypass diodes also robs pover. We have Bogarts PWM 30 A controller with temp censer and 600Watt of panels 2 6v 260A batteries wery happy. Considering adding 2 more batteries for microwave and partial air conditioning.
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