Wire Gauge Required Question
For some reason I just can't understand the various wire gauge tables, and I have tried to, so I am hoping somebody will take pity and do all the work! :) One table that I can follow says that for...
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I wondered if that squaring factor, mentioned earlier in the thread, would mean there is a "loss multiplier" going from the 24v side to the 12v side of the controller.
But again it is the percentage of what? deal. I think I would rather have the high amps and a loss instead of low amps with little loss.
Thank goodness I have a portable set-up with lots of various wires lying around like fat jumper cables and several pieces of #8, so I can try out different things strung together and let the Trimetric tell me how it is.
If I fry my MPPT controller, I can't go to PWM with that new 24v 230w panel. A person with brains would have two 120w 12v panels and put them in series. Then if he fried his MPPT he could just change the panels to parallel and use an RJ special. :)
But again it is the percentage of what? deal. I think I would rather have the high amps and a loss instead of low amps with little loss.
Thank goodness I have a portable set-up with lots of various wires lying around like fat jumper cables and several pieces of #8, so I can try out different things strung together and let the Trimetric tell me how it is.
If I fry my MPPT controller, I can't go to PWM with that new 24v 230w panel. A person with brains would have two 120w 12v panels and put them in series. Then if he fried his MPPT he could just change the panels to parallel and use an RJ special. :)
