hello hello thanks for tuning in today we're going to see how long
600 watts of solar will take to charge a 200 amp hour lipo 4 battery
the zoom's 200 amp hour plus battery and see how long it takes to charge on 600 watts of solar
so this will be a video on how much solar it takes to charge this battery
so right now it is at 10.69 volts which is totally flat it's at zero percent
we're showing 10.6 on the charge controller
we have 18 volts coming in 1.2 amps nine percent of the battery is charged
so we'll go ahead and let this thing charge up all day and see what we can get out of it
all right it's just before nine o'clock 11.05 on directly on the batteries
see we're bringing in 13 watts right now out of the 600 it's still early morning 856. and
the battery low was 10 volts and we're up to 11 now so it is charging
it is still discharged but it is charging
just before 10 11.40 bring in uh just under two amps and we've charged one amp hour it says
all right it's winding down to the end of the day here and we have 13.24 volts which puts us right
at about 80 or so between 70 and 90 percent and if you look here we brought in a little
over a kilowatt 83 amp hours our battery minimum voltage for the day was 10 and our max was 13.9
all right it's the next morning 817 we're bringing in six watts right now we're sitting at 13 volts
and nothing on the record for today minimum battery voltage was 13 from yesterday max
was 13.10 we will let it run and see if it will finish topping off the batteries today
all right we're back with the zoom's battery and it is 10 36 now we're bringing in 350 watts
13.7 on the charge controller 24 amps we're at 13.51 which would put us technically at 100 charge
but as we know from yesterday we only brought in one kilowatt i believe and see we only brought in
100 watt hours today so yesterday was just over a kilowatt you see there and this battery holds
over 2 kilowatts 200 amp hour battery so we know that it's got to charge some more today
we'll see it go into a float charge
after the charge controller senses the battery amperages come all the way up
so right now it's still an mppt mode we need to see it go into boost and float mode
and then we'll be good so we'll come back and check it around noon
all right we're remote monitoring this it's 11 34 we're bringing in 64 watts and you see the battery
is at 13.2 so it's not showing 100 really because it's a life pro 4 battery and we have brought in
roughly 20 amp hours or so so we'll see what happens at lunchtime
right 12 noon and we're bringing in 428 well 35 watts now 30 amps
into the battery eight and a half from the panels battery still accepting charge
the magic number we're looking for is around 540 i believe
540 will put these panels at ninety percent efficiency
okay we know the panels are at least eighty percent efficient
at 480 watts the 600 watt array is at least 80 percent efficient
and you see there we're climbing up now
well over 80 efficiency 540 would be at 90 efficiency so we'll see if we'll hit that
there's 502 and again it's just after noon so this is the max output
and you're gonna have factors like how far the batteries charged up it's still in mppt mode so
we're still good let me turn a slight load on and see if we can get that voltage bumped up to 540.
all right about 520 is what we're seeing here so we'll let it go for a little bit longer
all right we hit 525 so we're sitting at 520 there it is
so 525
and it's only 1205.
all right we're sitting at 13.56 as you can see we put a slight load on it of about five
six amps 80 watts dc and we're getting 535 watts out so you are limited by the charge controller
battery are some factors in it but we are putting out close to 90 efficiency with this 600 watt away
array and i believe that is because the charge controller it only supports 40 amps
max and we are really close to that 40 amps so it's probably stepping some things down
okay it's 12 39 still bring in over 500 watts we have hit boost mode charge now at 14 volts
still bringing in 35 amps 637
watt hours so i put us right at about 1600 watt hours and we came into boost mode
which seems about right for this battery this battery should shoot up somewhere around 14 and
a half volts before the bms kicks in so we'll keep monitoring it all right at 12 47 we're getting in
between 5 30 and 5 40 so we're at that 90 mark with how efficient the panels are
and we're pulling down about a 7 watt i'm sorry 7 amp load on just a dc side with a 2
amp load on the inverter so under load we are hitting 90 percent efficiency with the panels
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