Voltage drop from solar controller
or: Here we Go Again. Still trying to get my 420 Watts of solar to fully charge my 484 AH of battery. (Currently in southern Mexico.) Layout: 2 80 Watt panels and 2 130 Watt panels in paralle...
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Canadian Rainbirds wrote:
Strangely, BlueSky doesn't even mention being close to the batteries, they just list minimum cable for the distance, #6 for 25.7 feet! And that for a voltage drop of 0.42 volts!
Maybe they meant 25.7 feet total of 2 leads. Meaning, 13 ft of a normal double-lead cable. Check with Southwire voltage drop calculator.
