Having been gifted with a couple of sunny days – or at least mornings – in a row, I’m trying to run an equalization charge on my batteries for the first time in two months. That means everything from the solar panels goes to scouring the inside of the batteries. So I’m keeping electrical use to a minimum for the sunny part of the day, and the minimum is zero. In fact I plan to turn the inverter off until late afternoon to eliminate even parasitic draw. So no blog for you today, just so you know.
Also, there’s evidence that my big pageview mystery really is being caused by some confused overseas students, as a commenter speculated. Yesterday and last night it came to a sort of crescendo with an unprecedented almost-2000-visits day, then abruptly fell back to more-normal numbers. This li’l hobby blog doesn’t get that kind of traffic, and when it does Uncle Joel becomes confused. Well, no harm done.
Talk at you later.
Great minds on sunny days. I had just set our system to equalize before checking in here. We’re supposed to have clear sunshine until at least 2:00 for a change. Monsoon season kills the system, with the clouds moving in at about 10 am, the start of peak input time. Enjoy!
Man, you need some juice or something. I’m in the boondocks of the upper midwest. Not known for sunny climes. Off grid and loving it. 3 x 270 watt panels and a 150 midnight controller drive a 4K inverter. I run all day every day everything electrical and don’t know the difference. Seems the 4x 6 volt golf cart batteries are always charged by 9 in the morning. Am I lucky or has Arizona run out of sun?
On the contrary, you’ve got a lot of panels for your batteries. I don’t know what the individual capacity of your batteries is, but golf cart batteries aren’t especially big and you’re running 810 watts of solar panel. That’s ‘way more than twice – closer to three times – as much as I have. Appropriate, since you’re in the midwest which, as you correctly point out, isn’t especially sunny. But don’t go dissing my system when you’re filling a lot less with a lot more.