The reason people use charge controllers is mainly to stop overcharge.
The secondary benefit with a controller that can do boost or buck is MPPT
(Maximum Power Point Tracking), so you can couple the PV to the battery
more effectively and waste less of the energy as heat. If you hook ten
120W 12
Hey John,
You say you run your shop off of the 24v setup….. do you have an inverter that
makes 120VAC? Or 240VAC?
Seems to me that all you need is an inverter and a charger. There would be some
losses but simple to implement.
If you go straight to the battery from the array you could use a DC
Hi John,
Why do you say that unstable input power would affect longevity of the
cells? What do you think happens under driving conditions?
As long as you carefully monitor (with that BMS) that none of the
individual cell voltages do not go over the max charge voltage, you can
throw what you want
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