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JiminDenver
Explorer II
May 27, 2014

Solar charge controller, how clean is the power?

How clean is the power coming out of a charge controller? In my case it is MPPT. The reason I ask is I had planned on using the solar to boost the 8-D while the inverter runs heavy loads. The caps ...
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mlts22
Explorer II
May 27, 2014
In all my time on rv.net, I've never heard of an inverter being damaged by any solar charge controller, be it PWM or MPPT. The battery tends to buffer out the current draw, AFAIK.

I have read about the ripple effect, but that is with an inverter directly attached to a fuel cell.

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