Hello all, new to solar and recently bought a bluetti ac200p with 3 rigid 210W panels. Have been testing and not happy with my results thus far. From the 630W panels I typically get 425W at solar peek, if I manually adjust them I've seen 510W. My disappointment is mostly with the ac200P 2000WH battery.
I've been testing my one of my deep freezers which is only 7.0CF and based on the display pulls 1038W on startup and mostly shows running at 36W but sometimes 46/48W. I should be getting 30+ hours of life but I'm getting less than 20 plugged in to the AC Output, assume it's inverter loss.... My hope was to power two deep freezers and one standard refrigerator but looks like plan won't happen.
I'm in the south United States and given not every day is full of sun wondering from others if there would be a good strategy for getting the most of the solar equipment I already have. The freezers contains frozen meat, so I would expect they stay frozen for 3+ days. I can't purchase anymore equipment currently and just wondering if alternating equipment in a power out situation would be feasible such as;
On a bright sunny day I might able to run everything for a few hours, but on a cloudy day or at night I may need to ration power to appliances to a few hours of use. Or maybe I run each one for 5 hours then switch it to other device - just not sure how that's going to work if we get a week of rain which is possible but unlikely here. Anyone have any thought on if that approach of appliance rationing would work short to long term? I know the battery inverter can handle the load and the 2 freezers again use about 36-48W when running and the fridge uses around 240W when running.
I've been testing my one of my deep freezers which is only 7.0CF and based on the display pulls 1038W on startup and mostly shows running at 36W but sometimes 46/48W. I should be getting 30+ hours of life but I'm getting less than 20 plugged in to the AC Output, assume it's inverter loss.... My hope was to power two deep freezers and one standard refrigerator but looks like plan won't happen.
I'm in the south United States and given not every day is full of sun wondering from others if there would be a good strategy for getting the most of the solar equipment I already have. The freezers contains frozen meat, so I would expect they stay frozen for 3+ days. I can't purchase anymore equipment currently and just wondering if alternating equipment in a power out situation would be feasible such as;
On a bright sunny day I might able to run everything for a few hours, but on a cloudy day or at night I may need to ration power to appliances to a few hours of use. Or maybe I run each one for 5 hours then switch it to other device - just not sure how that's going to work if we get a week of rain which is possible but unlikely here. Anyone have any thought on if that approach of appliance rationing would work short to long term? I know the battery inverter can handle the load and the 2 freezers again use about 36-48W when running and the fridge uses around 240W when running.