Will a Victron 150/60 handle these panels?
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You could put 1000W on the 60A controller. That's called over paneling. The extra potential will simply go unused once the 60A is reached.
Your 150/60 will easily handle 800W of panels. Keep in mind that if your battery voltage is actually 13.5V, for example, then it's 800W / 13.5V = 59A. And how often will you actually get 800W from 800W of solar panels?
Given the Voc of the panels you can put them in 4S if you don't have any shading issues. Otherwise 2S2P would work.
BTW - have you played around with Victron's MPPT calculator?
You can enter your own custom solar panel details and it will recommend the best SCC. But I have to admit that on occasion it seems to make the wrong recommendation.
Your 150/60 will easily handle 800W of panels. Keep in mind that if your battery voltage is actually 13.5V, for example, then it's 800W / 13.5V = 59A. And how often will you actually get 800W from 800W of solar panels?
Given the Voc of the panels you can put them in 4S if you don't have any shading issues. Otherwise 2S2P would work.
BTW - have you played around with Victron's MPPT calculator?
You can enter your own custom solar panel details and it will recommend the best SCC. But I have to admit that on occasion it seems to make the wrong recommendation.
Awesome, thank you for the reply ??You could put 1000W on the 60A controller. That's called over paneling. The extra potential will simply go unused once the 60A is reached.
Your 150/60 will easily handle 800W of panels. Keep in mind that if your battery voltage is actually 13.5V, for example, then it's 800W / 13.5V = 59A. And how often will you actually get 800W from 800W of solar panels?
Given the Voc of the panels you can put them in 4S if you don't have any shading issues. Otherwise 2S2P would work.
BTW - have you played around with Victron's MPPT calculator?
You can enter your own custom solar panel details and it will recommend the best SCC. But I have to admit that on occasion it seems to make the wrong recommendation.
The charge controller is the same cost as the 4 panels ? sheesh ?
Side question...it seems to me the controller is the most important part based on price...is that accurate?
Some might consider the charge controller the most important. Some might consider the inverter the most important. Or the batteries. I say every single part is important. Every fuse, wire, lug, component, etc. is critical. One bad part and you have no power. Or you could start a fire and people can get hurt. Don't buy cheap electrical components. Like most things there is a huge range of price. Victron is probably close to the top end. But their stuff works 24/7 at the fully rated specs. You can buy much less expensive charge controllers and they may or may not last depending on how hard you push them.
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