Here you can find Solar Panels and technological accessories related to Solar Energy: Click Here If you want to learn about Solar...
Here you can find Solar Panels and technological accessories related to Solar Energy: Click Here
If you want to learn about Solar Panels, to advise you before buying or to build your own Solar Panel: Click Here
both of these solar panels are currently charging the power station that they're plugged into this first one here is Plug and Play it's as easy as it gets and this second one here it requires you to buy a basic adapter cable that's very cheap but it could potentially save you hundreds of dollars on solar panels if you want to go the expensive route you can get the brand solar panel and like I said it is plug and playay so it comes with the right cable with the right adapter and it just plugs right into the solar charging port on the power station and then after about 30 seconds it reaches What's called the maximum PowerPoint and it starts charging at the max rate given how sunny it is at the moment it is currently charging at 102 watts and this is a 200 wat solar panel so yes the brand solar panels are super easy they're plug andplay but they're expensive this one currently costs $500 and it's a 200 watt solar panel to put that in perspective you could save up to $300 if you were to buy a 200 W solar panel from a different brand to save that kind of money you just have to understand how to charge a power station with a different branded solar panel and this is key how to pick a solar panel that is compatible with your power station so yes going with a different brand of solar panel will require you to buy one extra thing which is this adapter cable right here but you also have to make sure that your solar panel is compatible with your power station and to do that you have to understand these numbers and letters right here understanding this is the key to saving money on your solar panels and picking a solar panel that will safely charge your power station let's break it down line by line because it's just that important so this first line says 11 to 32 V 10 a v refers to volts a refers to amps so what this first line is telling you is that if your solar panel voltage is between 11 and 32 volts then its current limit is 10 amps so it can't exceed 10 amps of current knowing that you should be able to read this second line it says if your solar panel voltage is between 30 2 and 60 volt then you have a little bit of a higher current limit 12.5 amps and this last line is telling us something a little different it's just saying that you can hook up a Max of 600 watts of solar panels to this power station so these numbers right here are our guidelines and we can go out and we can find a compatible solar panel based on them and if you're wondering how the heck do I use those numbers to find a compatible solar panel well these numbers are listed on the back of all panels and if you're looking online then they'll be on the solar panels product page okay so this is how you read them the first one is the wattage of the solar panel this is a 100 watt solar panel that is obviously below the 600 watt limit so that means this one is so far compatible and then beneath that we have the open circuit voltage or VOC and that is 24.3 volts so that is within that 11vt to 60 Volt range and it's actually in the lower range where we're dealing with a 10 amp current limit and if we look beneath that we have the short circuit current which is 5.21 amps so that is below that 10 amp current limit as well so this is a compatible solar panel and like I said you can find these numbers on the product page so this is just a random 200 wat solar panel which is currently $200 so literally $300 cheaper than this 200 W solar panel right here and you can find these specific parameters on every single solar panel product page they are right here specific parameters and you can see the maximum power 200 Watts which is stated you can see the open circuit voltage VOC 22.5 volts and you can see the shortcircuit current or ISC which is 12.21 amps so what we are discovering is that this solar panel is actually this is not compatible how do we know well we can see the voltage right here which is 22.5 volts so that puts us within that lower voltage range of you know 11 to 32 volts with a 10 amp current limit and the shortcircuit current or ISC is 12.21 amps which exceeds that you know 10 amp current limit so this is actually not compatible and we'd need to look for a solar panel with different parameters because watts equals volts * amps if we increase the voltage and look for a 24volt solar panel that will keep the current low so that's exactly what I did I found a 200 wat 24volt solar panel and once again if we look at the price it is saving us roughly $300 compared with anchors branded solar panels so let's find its specs which are once again going to be on the product page here they are and let's check if it's compatible so it's 200 Watts that's within the 600 watt limmit the open circuit voltage is 45.4 if you can see that let me try to zoom or focus in a little bit for you there we go 45.4 volts which is within the 60 volt limit and then we have the shortcircuit current or ISC which is 5.83 amps which is well within that 12.5 amp current limit since this would put us in the higher voltage range of that 32 to 60 volt voltage range so this beautiful lovely 200 W affordable solar panel is indeed compatible with that power station right there your response to all this might be to say okay well you can you know wire multiple of the brand solar panels together to increase power output but you can do the same with offbrand solar panels so these are two of the same 100 wat solar panels wired in series so that sums the voltage but keeps the current the same so we're sitting at 48 volts and I think around 5 amps which is with it compatible with our power station it's still within all of the stated limits but you might say okay this has to be $500 for a reason maybe it outputs more power than a regular 200 W solar panel well now we have a 200 W solar array made up of you know offbrand just kind of budget solar panels so let's compare the power output between the two so for the Renegy panels power output currently 123 wats and for the anchor panels power output is currently 103 wat 20 W less and if we go back to Amazon and we search 200 W portable solar panel cuz that's what the anchor panel is it's a portable solar panel we can find very similar looking solar panels or once again in that $200 price range so maybe there's some peace of mind going with the brand solar panels but for me it's not worth hundreds of dollars I don't know maybe for you you just want to get the plug-and playay option that the brand recommends because of course they recommend their own solar panels but for me I would save hundreds of dollars and go with just any different but compatible brand of solar panels so that's how you solar charge a power station and save hundreds of dollars on car solar panels that's it for this one and I'll see you in the next one ...
No hay comentarios