On my two solar prius and the Frankenvolt,(http://aprs.org/my-EVs.html) about the most solar panels that will fit are about 240 watts. Since the volt is said to consume over 500 watts *just-being-on" the more interesting question is where is all that going. Are the CPUs all powered from the 12v bus? If so, then simply pushing the solar wattage into the 12v system would seem to help. But since the 12v system is maintained at 14v to keep the 12v battery topped off, then there is no where for the current to go...
Unless the voltage rise from pushing in current will trigger the feedback to reduce the 12v coming from the volt's DC/DC converter. Would be nice to know. bob On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:21 PM Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > I was thinking directly hooking into the output of the regen system might > be the best way for an EV pack to accept energy from other sources rather > than the normal charging system....that is...unprotected. I want to put > panels on my roof and on a pop trailer as long as allowed by law...and > don't say it's too heavy. That is not an issue as I will only build what > will not exceed weight standards and the law. I want to mimic the regen > system via the solar panels. Lawrence Rhodes > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200721/c9b49f21/attachment.html > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200721/5523624f/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
