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Cdash
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Jan 19, 2016

Solar - anyone regret getting PWM charge controller?

Looking to do a solar installation and have been studying up. Think I'm pretty good on most of it, however, still struggling with the charge controller. As I understand it, the PWM kind of "chops of...
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corvettekent
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Jan 19, 2016
I have a MPPT with 320 watts of panels and yes most sunny days I'm charge by noon but today was a cloudy day so I did not get a full charge. You could save a couple hundred dollars by going with a PWM but if it does not work like you would hope then you will be spending more $$ on a new controller. You will be happy with a MPPT controller.

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