What is your power consumption in the forest? When I was camping, all we used were a few 12V lights of a few watts, so the 50W solar panel and charge controller that I had brought were actually overkill to keep the small 12V gel cells charged up. What are you planning to run that you need to haul a 24kWh pack back and forth? I'd hate to have vacation and still spend most of the day near the office only to fetch some juice to help me make it through the night?
I plug in at work while working - that is my only use of a 110 outlet near the parking lot at work. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info http://www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Seth Rothenberg via EV Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:27 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: [EVDL] Level 1 charging solar Friends, I saw a video of someone charging a Nissan Leaf (presumably) using the provided Level 1 charger and flexible solar panels attached to the car. (presumably with an off-grid inverter). The video had no information other than showing a clever routing the EVSE through the absent DCQC knockout. (I have the DCQC port, so even that's not helpful :-) I had a related idea. While I am at work, I presently don't have access to the grid. But I do have access to the sun. The included L1 charger draws about 1.4 KW. But I also have OpenEVSE (being assembled) that can be configured to draw 5a ....@ 120V is ....600W. Perhaps 4 panels could provide that (depending on losses). With an appropriate magnetic mounting system, 4 200W panels could fit. Then big question then would be is storage of the panels between uses. (I am not proposing driving the panels back and forth). Has anyone seen a project attempt this? Thanks Seth PS - Good News - I am going camping in a State Forest, and so far, I have verbal approval to plug in @ the office. I need to do the math...drop off the gear, drive to office, plug in, hike the Appalachian Trail a few hours, come back, drive back to site....repeat tomorrow.... There's also a DCQC not far from the Forest. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
