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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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MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
May 27, 2014
If you simply -have- to have something in there, purchase a giant electrolytic capacitor from one of those car audio boom-boom supplies. A 1-Farad cap will clean power so much it would make the reputation of Mother Teresa look sketchy.

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