Willie1971
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JiminDenver said:Mike
I'm with you on the campground thing. We wanted all of the modern niceties after roughing it while camping for decades but one trip crammed into a spot where you could hear the people softly talking around their camp fire a few spots away and we headed back to the hills.
I'm hoping to get my system installed this summer if the weather ever clears. we have had one week between the spring storms and the summer monsoon season so it will be a bit here and there. Right now I am witing for the lugs for the 1/0 wire I have.
We have three 250w GT panels ran by a Morningstar TS-MPPT-60. Even though it isn't mounted we can still use all or part if the weather clears. I did run a test of the system and the 5000 BTU air conditioner on one of the hottest days so far. The system ran it directly from 11 am to 3 pm with no drop in voltage on the battery. It will also power a hot plate using 470w, a 400 watt heater or adds a big assist in running the larger items like the microwave.
Here is the driveway test of the air conditioner. The panels are flat as they will be mounted. They pushed 45a all day but they are in series, parallel will push more and keep the controller cooler. Tracking the system would be good for over 55a.
Hi
My goal would be to have enough panels to run a single roof AC. My single AC system pulls about 1600 watts. Rough math tells me I need 130 amps if not more from my solar array.
Thats like a 2400 watt system. I am running almost a 600 watt system and my meter shows me about 35 amps max into my battery bank.
Maybe I am reading it wrong but are you really running an ac unit off pure solar? My units are from 2001. I have no idea if new ac units pull less power.
Thx for your time.