<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mac,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can charge with DC directly from a PV solar array without an inverter or regulator. The current is self limiting by the amount of PV solar power you are making at any moment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The magic is knowing know how to trigger the charge port communications so your EV controller knows that there is a safe connection to a DC power source. Perhaps the will get you started: </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.evcreate.nl/chademo-fast-charging-in-diy/" class="">https://www.evcreate.nl/chademo-fast-charging-in-diy/</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Be safe when working with 500Vdc.</div><div class=""><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Larry Crutcher</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Starlight Solar Power Systems</span><br style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><div class="">On Apr 12, 2021, at 5:05 PM, Matt Sherald <<a href="mailto:matt@getpimby.com" class="">matt@getpimby.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Mac,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our car gobbles 11,500W when it's plugged in to the grid. Even if we reduced the charge rate it would still be a heck of a draw - the chargers in the EVs are greedy. I'll be curious to hear if anyone has a solution, but my bet is that you need to give the EV a deep well to pull from (probably deeper than a battery bank or PV array can directly and consistently satisfy).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Matt<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:55 PM Mac Lewis <<a href="mailto:maclewis1@gmail.com" class="">maclewis1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Sorry, I should have clarified, I am interested in EV charging with no grid available. I think that Solaredge requires a grid</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:51 PM Dana Orzel <<a href="mailto:dana@solarwork.com" target="_blank" class="">dana@solarwork.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class="">SolarEdge<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><div style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor windowtext;border-style:none none solid;border-width:medium medium 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1pt" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:medium none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(0,32,96)" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class="">Dana Orzel Great Solar Works, Inc. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif" class="">C - 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