Solar Requirements - Confirmation
I'm taking a 3 month mountain biking trip through British Columbia this summer. Most of the time will be spent camping at National/Provincial parks without access to electric. When I really break it d...
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BFL13 wrote:
VA applies to the input watts, not to the output watts. Converter efficiency is about 85%, so that 864 output means 1016w input. Now apply the 0.7 PF and get 1452 VA required.
Absolutely correct, but I thought I'd try to keep my example as simple as possible as there's already confusion over "PF" vs "efficiency". My point was to illustrate why a given genset may appear to be suitable based on it's "watts" rating alone when in fact that can often not be the case at all.
