Has anyone got or know anything about these panels.
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60W is nearly 5 amps Andy.
Handy for charging up to a 50 amp hour battery.
A bit of use between 50 and 100 amp hour.
2 of their panels would be more sensible.
Waste of time above that, probably more harm than good.
Ok for keeping worn out batteries warm/staggering I suppose.
You need good regulation for solar panels.
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60W is nearly 5 amps Andy.
Handy for charging up to a 50 amp hour battery.
A bit of use between 50 and 100 amp hour.
2 of their panels would be more sensible.
Waste of time above that, probably more harm than good.
Ok for keeping worn out batteries warm/staggering I suppose.
You need good regulation for solar panels.
Has anyone got or know anything about these panels.
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60W is nearly 5 amps Andy.
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In theory yes, in practice you might be lucky to see 3 amps with full summer sunshine.
OK to keep a starter battery topped up.. not much else.
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Don,t go parking next to me with your Sunlight stealing Solar panel. A nice generator thats what you need hardhathardhathardhat
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Wildman, batteries are resistances (resistors).
They have what's called internal resistance.
When you charge a battery, part of the current is wasted overcoming the internal resistance of the battery.
If you reckon the first amp passing through a good battery is wasted overcoming the resistance of the battery, you'll have a starting figure.
After that, some of the charge is used overcoming the self-discharge rate of the battery.
Your paltry 1.5 might just about maintain a 100 amp hour battery in conjunction with an intelligent regulator.
With a less than intelligent regulator, there's a fair chance that it will do more harm than good.
Intelligent chargers only "trickle charge" (float charge) full batteries.
They vary the voltage and current to suit the state of charge and capacity of your batteries.
Has anyone got or know anything about these panels.
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The batteries never showed less than 12.3 volts first thing in the morning and by teatime were back to 13.3 at least. Even in the workshop for the last week the batteries haven't fallen below 12.8.
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I will be having 2 x Elecsol 110 A/hr batteries so looks like a good 100 watt panel will be required.
Just as a matter of interest do you meusure the voltage using a meter and test leads or is there a control panel which actually shows the voltage, as opposed to the silly green and red LED thingys which I always feel are a bit vague, I much prefer to see the actual voltage (Either in analogue or digital format)
Have you actually measure 18V when your solar panel is charging please?
Did you measure the current at the same time, if so what was it please?
Incidentally, does 18v suggest anything to you about your regulator?.
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I will be having 2 x Elecsol 110 A/hr batteries so looks like a good 100 watt panel will be required.
Just as a matter of interest do you meusure the voltage using a meter and test leads or is there a control panel which actually shows the voltage, as opposed to the silly green and red LED thingys which I always feel are a bit vague, I much prefer to see the actual voltage (Either in analogue or digital format)
I did send you a PM requesting details. The cheapest option is Panel meter used in conjunction with a push to make switch so the meter does not use power all the time, just connect across the battery
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forgive me if I am wrong but suspect you are otherwise known as George, your posts have a destinctive flavour to them that tends to rub people up the wrong way, you always manage to insinuate you know everything. And others are stupid.
for your information the 17.5 -20V reading is from the panal before it is connected to the regulator or the batteries.
The current when measured was into the load consisting of 2 x 120 amp/hr batteries at the fuse between the regulator output and the batteries
You see I was not in the least bit interested in internal losses of the batteries, or the regulator just the current passing in real time into the batteries. by measuring the other side of the regulator I could calculate the losses, but am not interested, got it not interested. I know all I want to know about my system, the question was just to test the responce. I would appreciate it if you did not reply to any of my posts in the future. Life is too short to be continually explaing myself.
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