POPUPs with Solar Panels added to roof
Would like to see some photos of POPUPs with SOLAR PANELs added to the roof area. I am in the very early stage of looking into installing SOLAR PANELS on my Starcraft 14RT Off-Road POPUP roof. M...
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Shadow Catcher - The MPPT Solar Controller seems to be the way to go for my setup.
I don't really understand the operations of the panels yet as to why they are rated at a certain wattage i.e. 120WATT Solar Panel which produces around 18Volts Dc lets say. This should give you around 7AMPS of DC. By the time you drop this DC voltage down to 14.4VDC to be used with your battery charging setup it is now only 5AMPS of usable DC current. This relates to only 72WATTS of usable power coming from the 120WATT panel. Where did the other 48WATTS go to haha... I'm just pulling this info from the various specs you read on the panel descriptions.
The only thing important to me is how many DC amps is going into the batteries so I can use it to run my appliances and devices.
I do expect another challenge to overcome as well using the MPPT controller is their built-in high current regulator that may cause a whole new world of RFI signals that will interfere with my Radio Comms. I am already experiencing pretty bad interference with using LED lights that have built-in regulators with anything that operates in the VHF/UHF frequency bands radio wise. This includes the HDTV and NOAH WX radios as well.
This coupled with my inherent RFI noise coming from any INVERTER setup may be the final nail in the coffin for RADIo COMMs setups for me... My 600W and 1500W PSW Inverters really puts out alot of interference with my HF Radio 7Mhz operations... My Inverters RFI is in groups of bands of noise unlike the RFI noise coming from the LED boards which is very broad banded in the VHF/UHF frequencies.
Will be watching the RFI noise coming from the MPPT Controllers very close...
Roy Ken
I don't really understand the operations of the panels yet as to why they are rated at a certain wattage i.e. 120WATT Solar Panel which produces around 18Volts Dc lets say. This should give you around 7AMPS of DC. By the time you drop this DC voltage down to 14.4VDC to be used with your battery charging setup it is now only 5AMPS of usable DC current. This relates to only 72WATTS of usable power coming from the 120WATT panel. Where did the other 48WATTS go to haha... I'm just pulling this info from the various specs you read on the panel descriptions.
The only thing important to me is how many DC amps is going into the batteries so I can use it to run my appliances and devices.
I do expect another challenge to overcome as well using the MPPT controller is their built-in high current regulator that may cause a whole new world of RFI signals that will interfere with my Radio Comms. I am already experiencing pretty bad interference with using LED lights that have built-in regulators with anything that operates in the VHF/UHF frequency bands radio wise. This includes the HDTV and NOAH WX radios as well.
This coupled with my inherent RFI noise coming from any INVERTER setup may be the final nail in the coffin for RADIo COMMs setups for me... My 600W and 1500W PSW Inverters really puts out alot of interference with my HF Radio 7Mhz operations... My Inverters RFI is in groups of bands of noise unlike the RFI noise coming from the LED boards which is very broad banded in the VHF/UHF frequencies.
Will be watching the RFI noise coming from the MPPT Controllers very close...
Roy Ken
