Recent content by opfor

Great input folks, thank you all!

So the ones I have found were used for a few years on some mega solar farm project and are 250w panels. Seller is asking $115 each for them but I can probably get them for maybe $100. The fact that they work better on a cloudy day is a big plus for me as you can see from my photo I would be...

Excellent, thanks so much for posting this, so really it just a poly panel.

So I've founds some panels on market place that I'm interested in and when I asked if they were poly or mono the guy says they are something in between, multicrystaline. I've never heard of this type and curious if they are good or if I should avoid? I've always used mono for my camper and...

Yes, great link. Thank you for posting!

Sadly he was not referring to the units voltage side as I made it clear to him that I was aware that the SCC maxed out at 150v and thus why I had to do the panels in 2S2P as it was not possible in a 4S config. Appreciate you guys confirming all this and good to know I can add these into my...

Interesting, I did not know this, always assumed the power was being pushed into the SCC. My last conversation was with a reputable off grid solar company (will not call by name) and they made it a point to say I could fry my SCC if I had my config set up with too many panels. They also stated...

72.4v X 8.86a = ~642w Curious how you came up with the 8.86 for Amps. Here are the specs from the two panels

This is encouraging to hear since if I understand it correctly my 80A Outback Flex maxes out at 1000w anyway since it is a 12V system. Someone mentioned that on those rare cold days where it could potentially make the max amount, say 1400w the controller has to get rid of the extra ( I guess in...

Greetings folks, Looking for some answers on adding more panels to a system I put together about seven years ago. This was my first solar project and built this for a small off grid cabin in the hills of East Tn. I only went 12v since this was my first build and here are my components. I'm using...