For those with solar and alternator charging for your off grid system, how useful have you found alternator charging? How often do you use alternator charging?
I am seriously considering building my 48V DIY battery in a chest freezer to maintain cell temperatures around 10 C to keep the batteries at an optimal temperature. I would be in an environment which may get down to -10C at night for multiple months of the year and may get above 40 C a few days...
I have an on-grid solar system with optimizers and would like to add more panels to the series-parallel array. The thing is that I cannot add the same number of panels in series to create a new series string. Can I set some optimizers with, say, 4 panels in a string to output a higher voltage...