(1 September 2012, 02:16)Skvez Wrote: In order for the regulator to know the state of the battery, every so often it stops charging briefly and reads the Voltage of the battery.
If you have multiple regulators feeding the same battery bank what can happen is regulator A stops charging and reads the battery but sees the PV Voltage from regulator B rather than the actual state of the battery and believes that the battery is fully charged and stops charging.
I'd advise you oversize your regulator, you can add more panels and more batteries but I don't advise trying to feed multiple regulators into the same battery bank.
Of course you can get multiple regulators to feed multiple (separate) battery banks. That gives you redundancy and we preppers do like redundancy. It a little more awkward when it comes to loading as you need to distribute (or switch) your loads between your two or more battery banks.
There is some argument whether you can join regulators, I understand this is not a problem to do, but I admit I can only go on the advice being given to me, so I am looking at what you’re saying and others on another forum and hope to find a middle ground, but it will always be best to use larger regulators that is something we all agree on.
This now can lead to another subject, to combine solar pv with wind turbine, duel fuel if you like, up until this evening I thought it could not be done, but it seems quite a few do it, and it makes a lot of sense to have this setup, a night-time charge and winter boost, I can also get 300watt turbine very cheap.
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Here is link to the CC from that discussion, My concern is I understand wind turbines must always be under load or something, and that wind regulators have a way to manage this when the bank is fully charge, but by adding this controller the question comes up again, duel regulator and how it might effect the setup.
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http://www.affordable-solar.com/store/so...controller
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It would be nice to have someone just say yes it can be done and here is how or no it cannot and this is why. It seems so many people have conflicting views, when it comes to geek talk, in fact I just want to hear yes/no, because I like to just get things done and not have to wait around trying to find out who is right and who is wrong with online chat.
(2 September 2012, 03:18)Nemesis Wrote: (1 September 2012, 02:16)Skvez Wrote: In order for the regulator to know the state of the battery, every so often it stops charging briefly and reads the Voltage of the battery.
If you have multiple regulators feeding the same battery bank what can happen is regulator A stops charging and reads the battery but sees the PV Voltage from regulator B rather than the actual state of the battery and believes that the battery is fully charged and stops charging.
I'd advise you oversize your regulator, you can add more panels and more batteries but I don't advise trying to feed multiple regulators into the same battery bank.
Of course you can get multiple regulators to feed multiple (separate) battery banks. That gives you redundancy and we preppers do like redundancy. It a little more awkward when it comes to loading as you need to distribute (or switch) your loads between your two or more battery banks.
There is some argument whether you can join regulators, I understand this is not a problem to do, but I admit I can only go on the advice being given to me, so I am looking at what you’re saying and others on another forum and hope to find a middle ground, but it will always be best to use larger regulators that is something we all agree on.
This now can lead to another subject, to combine solar pv with wind turbine, duel fuel if you like, up until this evening I thought it could not be done, but it seems quite a few do it, and it makes a lot of sense to have this setup, a night-time charge and winter boost, I can also get 300watt turbine very cheap.
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http://www.windynation.com/community/thr...urces.504/
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Here is link to the CC from that discussion, My concern is I understand wind turbines must always be under load or something, and that wind regulators have a way to manage this when the bank is fully charge, but by adding this controller the question comes up again, duel regulator and how it might effect the setup.
.
http://www.affordable-solar.com/store/so...controller
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.
It would be nice to have someone just say yes it can be done and here is how or no it cannot and this is why. It seems so many people have conflicting views, when it comes to geek talk, in fact I just want to hear yes/no, because I like to just get things done and not have to wait around trying to find out who is right and who is wrong with online chat.
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