Posted by Derek Broughton on January 23, 2007, 6:53 pm
stubbsgarage wrote:
>
> Eeyore wrote:
>> stubbsgarage wrote:
>>
>> > Have a chance to pick up a 24V wind turbine fairly cheap.
>> >
>> > Here is the dilemma. I have a 12V solar array. Is there any way to
>> > easily and cheaply amalgamate the two?
>> >
>> > I can easily rewire the batteries to a 24V configuration, but, will the
>> > solar panels be useless to me?
>>
>> Put 2 panels in series.
>>
>> Graham
>
> Well.. That was easy.. Thank you.
>
> So POS to NEG then.. I gotcha. I assume I'll need a 24V charge
> controller for these as well then.
You will. Some are switch selectable.
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derek
Posted by You on January 24, 2007, 1:50 pm
> Have a chance to pick up a 24V wind turbine fairly cheap.
>
> Here is the dilemma. I have a 12V solar array. Is there any way to
> easily and cheaply amalgamate the two?
>
> I can easily rewire the batteries to a 24V configuration, but, will the
> solar panels be useless to me?
>
before you go to all the trouble of reengineering your whole 12Vdc
system, maybe you should think about buying a 24/12Vdc Switching
Regulator that would convert the output of the 24Vdc windy to 12Vdc for
your existing system, and try it out for a while.......
Posted by stubbsgarage on January 25, 2007, 2:39 pm
>before you go to all the trouble of reengineering your whole 12Vdc
> system, maybe you should think about buying a 24/12Vdc Switching
> Regulator that would convert the output of the 24Vdc windy to 12Vdc for
> your existing system, and try it out for a while.......
That's also an idea. I assume you can pick these up at any wind /
solar place ??
Posted by BobG on January 25, 2007, 2:58 pm
Look at the stuff from Solar Converters in Canada... they sell thru
distributers... lots of small effcient step up and down converters,
MPPT charge controllers etc
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> Eeyore wrote:
>> stubbsgarage wrote:
>>
>> > Have a chance to pick up a 24V wind turbine fairly cheap.
>> >
>> > Here is the dilemma. I have a 12V solar array. Is there any way to
>> > easily and cheaply amalgamate the two?
>> >
>> > I can easily rewire the batteries to a 24V configuration, but, will the
>> > solar panels be useless to me?
>>
>> Put 2 panels in series.
>>
>> Graham
>
> Well.. That was easy.. Thank you.
>
> So POS to NEG then.. I gotcha. I assume I'll need a 24V charge
> controller for these as well then.