Recent content by bwinzey

A little late but the most straightforward way would be to go for a UPS that can take that battery voltage. Generally they are already isolated and of course are way over engineered with every protection and filtering imaginable. Depending on the wattage you need and if you get lucky you can...

If it were me I would definitely do what you're talking about here, especially considering that two of those modules in series are pretty much the perfect voltage, but of course there's plenty of precautions one would have to take. Primarily I would start by removing all the bridges on the pack...

As long as you stay within the input parameters you should be fine. Says PV max open circuit is 150vdc so that's what I would try to go for. VOC of those panels is 37v each, You should be able to put 4 in series. Now, it says 36-72vdc nominal, that's generally because the buck converter inside...

Think of it this way, you could use the cable to jump start cars AND tow them... At the same time! Talk about transfer of energy

Not sure how you got to the conclusion of 20% less conduction. That crimp looks perfectly fine. I've been using one of those cheap hydraulic crimpers for a few years, built my 48v golf cart with 400a controller using it. Terminals have seen all sorts of water humidity and dirt for around 4...

There's a forum called "thebackshed" which has a big community of people who do just that. People that make 1-5kw inverters using the egs002 and they are relatively simple to build, and since you have all the schematics and parts lists you know where everything is and what everything does. Makes...

Those do work fine, I've had one charging my 12v SUV's battery with a 110w flexible panel on top for 2 years now, works great. But I wouldn't trust them over like 25A. Took mine apart to check it out and the MOSFETs inside were rated to like 100A if I remember correctly but the only cooling they...

Not sure about those 5.5KW ones as they do say grid tied. Surely there is a setting to turn it off but you'd probably have to find the manual and look through it to see I know they have a 5kva model that doesn't feed the grid because I had one, never actually used it but just looked at the...

Your idea will work fine the only thing would be that once the bad charger stops charging, all the power from the solar panels connected to it will just be wasted, meanwhile even if the batteries are only 80% the other solar panels with the other charger will have to supply the rest of the...

US $98.90 14%OFF | Solar water pump inverter DC to AC 0.75kw-11kw 220V or 380V Output Variable frequency speed controller for water pump https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPBjthk Found these on AliExpress. Looks like they fit the bill and are actually quite cheap. Literally like I mentioned earlier just...

I know there's some solar "pump controllers" which are literally reprogrammed VFD's that just take the 300-400vdc directly from panels coded with an MPPT algorithm. Now if you need to run it without sun then yes, you will need a way to store the energy therefore a battery, but I PRESUME those...

Don't think so. Looked him up in the registry and there's no Klontz. What I did find on LinkedIn is a Keith Klontz that was a professor in USF from 1995-1998. Looks like he left and started a company that deals with designing and manufacturing industrial motors/generators.

Ucf, but I'm studying Aerospace, nothing to do with electronics, and it shows... The setup in the first video was completely wrong, and while testing a bit I realized that in trying to filter the output using only caps, I was turning it into a very bad buck converter. Bad as in, since I had no...

You could also use grid tied inverters and tie them to your grid. But obviously won't be able to charge batteries with the power. Something like US $46.77 21%OFF | 300W 350W 500W 600W 700W Solar PV Grid Tie Micro Inverter MPPT DC26V-46V Solar Input AC110V-240V Output Home Solar On Grid...

You can't put boost converters in series, they're not isolated. You'll just short them out. Really the only way I see it working properly is if you just use the correct cables. 200A is way too much current to be carrying for 100 meters. Personally it were me I would cut my losses and try to...