High Voltage Charge Controller [RE-wrenches]

[Jay Peltz, Peltz Power]

Hi All,

RV products has a new ( or really soon) 160v max unit, and Outback has one thats
125v, with 12,24,48v output.

I am a firm believer in wire, its very reliable.

Jay

Peltz Power

"David Palumbo, Independent Power & Light" wrote:

> Travis,
>
> As Jeff Wolfe said Solar Converters has the MPPT units. I am using two of
> them on my own system. 960 watts per unit at 96 volts 24v output. We went
> through a couple of false starts with these controllers. Dan was great in
> getting them to finally work without failing. The present controllers have
> now been operating for over a year without any problems.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Creswell, Ozark Solar [mailto:ozsolar at ipa.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:37 PM
> To: RE-wrenches
> Subject: High Voltage Charge Controller [RE-wrenches]
>
> I am designing a job where the array is at least 700' from the house which
> is in heavy woods and the customer doesn't want to cut any trees down.
> Putting the inverters and batteries nearby to the array doesn't really solve
> anything either since the system will be grid tied.  That means I would need
> to have an AC run from the house to the inverter location then back to the
> house again. That's 1400' roundtrip.
>
> What I would really like is a MPPT charge controller that would let me run
> the array above 100 volts with 48 volts nominal output for the battery bank.
>  I have heard of several custom made units but have never seen any.  Where
> can I get such a thing?
>
> Or maybe I need put the array on top of a 40' pole?  Anybody done anything
> like that?
>
> Thanks
> Travis Creswell
> Ozark Energy Services
>
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