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Cdash
Explorer
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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pianotuna
Nomad III
Jan 19, 2016
Hi,

Buy a controller that has:

1. a temperature sensor on the battery bank
2. a voltage sense wire
3. adjustable voltage set points

I'd stick with pwm right up to 500 watts, beyond that and I'd go MPPT. At 1000 watts I'd switch to a 24 volt battery bank.

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