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CA Traveler wrote:
BFL13,
Hopefully I'll visit your neighborhood again. Where is that CG? And you once posted about a CG with eagles flying around etc, want to share?
We were fortunate to get a tour of the fantastic MARS Water Bomber. And on the same trip a kid was selling wheel barrows full of firewood. ๐
You gotta just love British Columbia! ๐ :C
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BFL13 wrote:I've never had any need to break out the clamp on and the ladder.
Normally, you can't tell how much each panel in an array is providing towards the total array output. After this, I now picture all you folks up there with clamp on ammeters poking at your combiner box inputs to find out! Too bad for those with panels in series and the junction boxes out of reach under the panels ๐
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twodownzero wrote:The most shade tolerant configuration is series IF the panels have bypass diodes. Next is parallel. Series/parallel is last since a panel shadow eliminates that series pair (for say a 2x2 array).
I'm running 400 watts with an MPPT charge controller. All of my panels are in series now, but I've wondered if I'd be better off with them in 2x2, series/parallel. I believe I would, it'd just take more wiring.
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DarkSkySeeker wrote:
How are you measuring the current? Does your charge controller display that? For each batt?
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