Alternator With A Solar Panel

So far this 445 watt solar panel setup combined with the alternator has worked perfectly.

Alternator with a solar panel. You can use car alternators to power a home. In order to calculate this you just have to divide the watts provided by your solar panel by the number of volts in your battery bank. Solar panel costs fell 53 percent in 2012. One method of doing this is to use the alternators to recharge storage batteries.

Solar controller except for small trickle charge systems all solar systems should have a solar controller. An alternator works by converting mechanical energy into electrical energy. This setup helps to simplify the needed calculations for this type of power. Enable dc dc charging from your alternator to a secondary lithium agm or flooded battery bank.

Most rv s have a way of isolating the power coming from the alternator or another source like generator or solar charge controller. The purpose of a controller is to prevent batteries from being overcharged apply the optimal charging current to the battery bank and prevent current from back flowing from the batteries to the solar panel at night. But the module cost makes up only about 33 percent of the total cost of building operating and maintaining a solar plant. Your solar panel s and charge controller are coming from an entirely different path.

This kit is ideal for van conversions and skoolies with older alternators or lithium batteries with input current limits under 100a. For simplicities sake think of it as power going from the alternator or the charge controller to the batteries but not the other direction. If you have two devices tied directly to the battery and each can provide a way to charge the battery at the same time you may end up with an overcharged battery or backfeeding one charging system with the other. These batteries could then be used to power an inverter which would produce the ac voltage needed to run the house.

Example you have 300 watts of solar panels on your camper s roof and two 12 volt batteries.