Best Way To Troubleshoot And Monitor Solar Panel Output
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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Often when I am wiring a solar panel system I want to know the exact voltage and amperage in different scenarios to make sure I have the wiring correct going into the charge controller or solar generator. This can be a bit tough just trying to use a clamp meter and for as little as $15 there is a better solution you can get from Amazon which will provide much more information on your overall system performance.
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My new favorite channel, keep em coming boss!
will do 👊
Thanks for the info, I was literally debating between getting a clamp meter or an in-line meter last week. I'll probably get both now 😆
Looking forward to your ecoflow delta pro testing. We just picked up one of those during Prime Day
Nice, yeah Prime Day is usually the best or one of the best days to purchase an EcoFlow 👍
I live in AZ. This summer our Electric Utility lost power and took approximately 2 hours to restore. It was 110 degrees and that started my search. I contacted Generac for a whole home system... 15 - 20K. Sorry cannot justify that expense. I just moved here and my home had an existing 16 panel solar system. I have watched several of your videos and am interested in setting up one of 2 senerios and need help.
#1 Use my existing solar to charge the DELTA Pro 3 to store power and power my home in the event of an outage. I am not sure if I would actually tap into the solar at the point that ED3 is buying back my power ie using a converter to take the AC DC to charge the storage. Or would it be possible to tap into the power coming from the panels and before the inverter directly into the backup storage.
ED3 does buy back what I produce. My typical winter bill is $39.00... my first bill that was higher was for July. ED3 explained that I had used up my credits.....
#2
DELTA Pro 3 with the smart generator.
I would need to size the back up to handle the load for the 4T AC that my home uses plus other appliances.
Where does this go? Between solar panel and charge regulator?
I spotted a potential flaw in the testing. The Yunsailing 100V watt meter uses 12AWG wires. So it would automatically add 12AWG loss wherever you add it in the chain. I imagine for more accurate results you would need to resolder 8AWG wires to the Yunsailing, or get a higher quality meter such as the Powerwerx Watt Meter Plus, which uses 8 gauge wires with preinstalled SB50 Powerpole connectors.
Rather than buying a MC4 crimping kit that I'll probably never use again, I bought a pair of terminated Y cables for less than $10, cut the ends and solder/spliced them to the meter leads and covered with shrink tubing.
Hi, (sorry for my English, but I'm using a translator) after seeing your video I decided to buy 3 power analyzers to monitor the production of my panels, but I'm encountering a big problem:
Leaving them connected "source" to the PV panels and "Load" to the charge controller, logically when the sun is no longer shining the analyzer switches off and resets, but when the sun returns and the PV panels start producing again, the analyzer it only displays a blue screen without any value and to display the data again I am forced to disconnect the cables (the two Rossi ones are enough) and everything starts again.
Is all this normal or are my analyzers not working properly?
Can you recommend any other power analyzer that is right for me?
Thanks for your answer
Greetings @Tetotech
I have (2) strings in series feeding my (2) Delta pros. Each string produces approximately 110 volts and 13.73 amps. I’m can’t find anything tells me if I should install disconnects or inline fuses? Can you please help?
Hello. Do you know a device like this one that can work through WIFI?
Dumb question from solar newbie: the solar panels have the male MC4 connector on the positive so I assume the power analyzer should have the female connector on the positive
Now, find us one that can do a whole string: 600V at 15A !!!
This device is almost usable, but for anyone serious its useless. My open voltage per string is 133.2, do you know of any device that can monitor this array?
Yeah, I have been on a quest for one that can go up to 200V but no luck yet.
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The analizer can't give you any info unless it is hooked up to a load, all your looking at is open circuit voltage and open circuit amps. We have no idea what the true wats are, it's like your lying to people here.
He didn't show the hooking up to a load but he did hook it up to a load. The load was probably his EcoFlow Delta 4 (batteries) that he mentioned early in the vid.
I found that out … after ordering… annoying
@@bl9531 What did you find out? If you know what you're doing, like this video's creator, this power analyzer works great. I bought two and do "side by side" comparison testing of solar panels with voltage boost MPPTs and a 48 volt battery bank as the load.
@@bl9531 What did you find out? If you know what you're doing, like this video's creator, this power analyzer works great. I bought two and do "side by side" comparison testing of solar panels with voltage boost MPPTs and a 48 volt battery bank as the load.