RickP
Solar Power Padawan
Read the part of my answer in the parentheses. You can use what’s currently being made, so long as that is sufficient to power the load. Having storage smoothes out the power delivery by storing excess while it is there so that it’ll be available when the sun is not available (shady days, rain, night).Ok, now I’m really lost?
Example: I have a solar pump that pulls up water from 400’ with no batteries attached!
Works like a charm, I fill my holding tank during the day, once every 3 days for yrs now?
So why can’t I run my MPP LV6048 all day, while the sun is out? I thought the batteries were just backup? I really don’t care if I have electricity at night??
Think of batteries like you do your water storage tank. The well pump is the power source, and the water is electricity. The storage tank holds water that was produced in excess of what you needed at the moment it was pumped, so it will be available when the well pump can’t provide it. Batteries work like that.
You can also run your well pump with no storage and just use water as it’s pumped only, but it’s inefficient and wasteful of a resource you’ll need later. Batteries are your storage tank for power, and make your system more efficient and useful.