Recent content by Austinbriggs123

I’m new to this but there will always be a draw of power for my situation at night it won’t be as much but there will still be something pulling power. Probably 30w per hour or so and in summer months when I need to run a fan probably another 150w or so. I just don’t want to ruin my battery’s...

I just don’t want to over charge or over discharge my battery they can get costly haha

I was looking and I couldn’t just find a direct answer. I have a 24v 200amp hour bank with 2 12v lifepo4 and charging with a 60a mppt cc so I’ve decided to try and do a 75% charge and set the float at 25% charge from my research that seems to be a sweet spot for usability but also longevity of...

Thank you so much everything is starting to click in my head haha!

Yea haha my drawing sucks I have ordered a negative and positive bus bar. Lows has some 10 gauge for like 160 bucks for 500ft of stranded copper wire.

Ok so once at the cc do something like this I didint even know what a bus bar was… I’m a newbie. Also what gauge wire would u use after the bus bar to the cc

So I would run it like the picture below. Then out of the panels run 2 10gauge wires one positive one negative 200ft into the charge controller? Correct

I guess I don’t understand. I was told I can’t run parallel because my panels will be over 200 ft from my controller. that sounds like a plan lol. You think that would have enough juice to run 200ish feet also what size wire would you recommend I run out of the panels to the CC?

ok I’m looking into a 24v system now but even with a 24v system. I’m running the 144v to the charge controller I can’t even find a controller that can handle that many volts with a 24v battery bank.

I plan on adding batteries in the future probably 3 in total. I just don’t have the cash to buy 3 now and I’m wanting to get this going before there is a shortage on stuff haha! And my normal power consumption will honestly only be 200watts a hour I’m just wanting to over size it just in case I...

I could possibly run a 24v battery bank just more $$$ but if I upgrade to a 80a charge controller it’s more $$$ as well haha. Have you ever heard of someone running 100yrds with solar array in parallel?

So if I get a more expensive controller I may be able to run on a 12v setup?

I do t think what I have will work will it? My solar panels in series will produce 136v on the specs of my charge controller it says recommended voltage for 12v is 18v to 60v?

Ok so I’m new to this so don’t roast me!!! Haha just kidding I’ve decided to go with a 1000w system My list I have some things are not adding up I don’t think but tell me if it will work. 4 250w solar panels. That run with a (vpm) 34v I will need to run them in series solar array will be...