"Sorry, of course this is your set up at camp. I wouldn't worry about the controller, let it go and do it's job. I worry about the battery bank and the food in the fridge.
Since it's camp I would be hard pressed to not add a small…"
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Nintendo Wii on Solar??? Battery Power??
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dale Marshall Nov 27, 2011. 5 Replies 0 Likes
Here goes guys. Been doing some reading, want some input. Nintendo Wii power brick says 53 watts @ 120 volts…Continue
MPPT CONTROLLER
Started Jul 26, 2011 0 Replies 0 Likes
Alrighty guy, so I have some charge controllers. I have located one on Ebay. 185 or so. Yellow and black, good display, bunch of functions. Made in Hong Kong. You can search MPPT charge…Continue
Air conditioner on solar?? Wish me luck.
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dale Marshall Jul 12, 2011. 30 Replies 0 Likes
Alright, so it's about that time for me to get the air conditioner out and apply solar. What I am looking at is 5000 btu air conditioner, does 150 square feet. 4.8 amps at 115v. So cruching some…Continue
Got my forth set of panels for Fathers Day any suggestions?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Christopher Jun 21, 2011. 8 Replies 0 Likes
The kids must really love me! Looked in the garage this morning and behold a set of new solar panels, multimeter and screwdriver set all from HF. This means that my wife and kids really do listen…Continue
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Renewable Ray replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?
John J. replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?"Ray;"
Renewable Ray replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?"John....are you living on this system or still just back up? Obviously if you are relying on it you do everything you can, even using the generator. But if it is still just back up and the battery is above 12 volts why do anything, leave it all…"
John J. replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?"Ok, I'll bite since things have changed.
Scenario: 5 days of serious overcast and rain. Crystaline panel is napping, amorphous panels trickling. Bank SOC aproaching 60%.
Time to break out the jumper cables and charge the bank back up to lets…"
Dale Marshall replied to Christopher's discussion Nintendo Wii on Solar??? Battery Power??"its not regulated."
Christopher replied to Christopher's discussion Nintendo Wii on Solar??? Battery Power??"Thank you for the link Dale. So I took my old Nintendo Gamecube and tested her out on one of my marine batteries and guess what. Worked like a charm. The power block says 120 volts @ 48 watts input and 12 volts @ 3.25 amp…"
Dale Marshall replied to Christopher's discussion Nintendo Wii on Solar??? Battery Power??"Here's a link to a device On ebay that might help. I have 4 of them for these types of…"
Christopher replied to Christopher's discussion Nintendo Wii on Solar??? Battery Power??"Good point Dale. I think I will do the leg work and go from there. If it holds up in testing, I will go full scale. I would like to save the power being used by the power inverter to power the Wii for other things.
I will post my…"
Dale Marshall replied to Christopher's discussion Nintendo Wii on solar??? Battery Power??"Sounds like a good Idea, Only problem I see is that Most of those power packs have voltage regulation and your game system will not like the voltage fluctuations. Find a way to keep the voltage regulated at that steady 12 volts. No…"
Christopher posted a discussionNintendo Wii on solar??? Battery Power??
Here goes guys. Been doing some reading, want some input. Nintendo Wii power brick says 53 watts @ 120 volts input and 12 volt 3.7 amps output. My question:Why can't I modify a power plug and connect to charge controller through a 12 volt plug in with fuse? Will this work? What do you guys think, makes sense to me. So I would be pulling 3.7 amps at 12 volts? Input as always is appreciated. Thanks guys.See More
John J. replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?"Well, I try to plan my solar generated power use as to not reach LVD. Goin on about a year now it never has. I mean isn't that the idea? Frankly I'm a little puzzled to how many people want to stretch there solar system beyond…"
Bill K replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?"OK, so here's the scenario....it's winter, there's a blazing snowstorm occurring, the snow is wet, heavy snow and the weight has dropped tree lims and cut the power county wide, it's snowing so hard, it's impossible to keep…"
Dale Marshall replied to Christopher's discussion What do you do when you have no sun and are not charging, whats your backup device?"Your answer is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1fXAdODGvA&feature=related"
Christopher posted a discussionMPPT CONTROLLER
Alrighty guy, so I have some charge controllers. I have located one on Ebay. 185 or so. Yellow and black, good display, bunch of functions. Made in Hong Kong. You can search MPPT charge controller and it's the 30 amp yellow and black one. What do you guys think? Think this will do? I am like 80% I want it, but would like some input from the forum. Any feedback as always is appreciated. Thanks guys.See More
Dale Marshall replied to Christopher's discussion Air conditioner on solar?? Wish me luck."At Minimum you need a 800 watt array to keep with a 5000 BTU A/C , Why you ask, because of the compressor cycling.
The fan in the A/C doesnt require alot actually, Probably around 200 watts. But that ugly compressor can surge at 120 volt 12…"
Christopher replied to Christopher's discussion Air conditioner on solar?? Wish me luck."You are right about that. I have looked at those DC AC's they are expensive, but worth it in the way of price both in your wallet and at the battery bank."
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