Solar crunch time! Please review my plan.
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Hi BFL13,
No, the four battery bank will require more amp-hours to get to 100%.
You already know this from the generator days. No one does 90% to 100% using a generator because it is not cost effective because the charge tapers.
Since above 85% there will be no more than about 12.5 amps per 100 amp-hours going in. As the bank gets closer and closer to 100% there will be more and more loss. The loss may be around double for four jars vs two jars.
Whether that makes a difference in 'real life' situations or not I could not say without a careful experiment.
No, the four battery bank will require more amp-hours to get to 100%.
You already know this from the generator days. No one does 90% to 100% using a generator because it is not cost effective because the charge tapers.
Since above 85% there will be no more than about 12.5 amps per 100 amp-hours going in. As the bank gets closer and closer to 100% there will be more and more loss. The loss may be around double for four jars vs two jars.
Whether that makes a difference in 'real life' situations or not I could not say without a careful experiment.
BFL13 wrote:
Each needs the same AH to get to 100%. Assuming the solar can do that many AH that day, the time is the same, the AH is the same, so the amps must be the same.
Same amps, same size solar array.
