I am interested in purchasing this unit...walk me through step by step how to connect this inverter/converter: do i need to have solar panels and batteries..from these to my house current..how?
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We will attach a manual for every item in the package and this item does not need battery for solar system anymore, really environmental friendly.
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Greg:I am very pleased with the inverter I have. I have the 24volt unit and my panels are wired, two in series to get 24 volt, back to trunkline to the inverter and then to grid. This utilises all the voltage they put out. If you are connecting to batteries your charger will hold the panels at 12volts and you will need wire up for 12 volt.calvinm@galaxycable.net
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The instructions doesn't give enough explanation. I called the company for my inverter and asked if solar is compatible with their inverter hooked up to the charge controller. They said to keep the inverter connected to the battery. The only thing I can think of is using a 12 volt light or a small apliance could be connected directly to it instead of using the battery power. If a 12 volt light is connected directly you are taking advantage of the solar imediatly. If the same light was connected to the battery instead, the charge controller doesn't let the solar charge the battery until it drops to a certain voltage. So solar panel isn't being used to its full advantage. The instructions doesn't give enough explanation. I called the company for my inverter and asked if solar is compatible with their inverter hooked up to the charge controller. They said to keep the inverter connected to the battery. The only thing I can think of is using a 12 volt light or a small apliance could be connected directly to it instead of using the battery power. If a 12 volt light is connected directly you are taking advantage of the solar imediatly. If the same light was connected to the battery instead, the charge controller doesn't let the solar charge the battery until it... » Read More The instructions doesn't give enough explanation. I called the company for my inverter and asked if solar is compatible with their inverter hooked up to the charge controller. They said to keep the inverter connected to the battery. The only thing I can think of is using a 12 volt light or a small apliance could be connected directly to it instead of using the battery power. If a 12 volt light is connected directly you are taking advantage of the solar imediatly. If the same light was connected to the battery instead, the charge controller doesn't let the solar charge the battery until it drops to a certain voltage. So solar panel isn't being used to its full advantage. « Show Less
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To run off-grid, you need batteries and a compatible AC-coupled inverter (maintains 120/240 AC voltage and stores excess power from solar system in the batteries) matched to the batteries. This is suitable if the solar panels are far from the batteries. Another approach requires solar charge controller(s) DC-coupled to batteries and inverter to supply your house power.
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what is the draw for the pump? I assume the pump is 110v AC so you will need an inverter also. You may need more than one panel do you want the pump to only run when the sun is shining? if not you will need to store energy in batteries.
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no you can't...you have to get a MPPT charger controller..the panels puts out up to 20 volt of Dc.. and the controller charges a 12 volt battery then you need a inverter that hooks up to the battery to convert to 120 volts then you can hook up appliance unless The appliances is 12v then you don't need the inverter.....
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Many steps are needed! Many videos on youtube show you proper set-ups. These put out DC voltage (2 wire) you'll need a DC Voltage controller. From the controller to Battery! If you want AC I go a differant rout. these don't really put out enough power to bother with an AC power inverter... hope this helps.Murf.
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the inverter will work but you did not say what wattage it is. Are you making the 2 batteries into 12 volts? You will need a charge controller too.
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Yes sir. You can Google different sites to find a watt calculator step one. When you figure out how many watts you need to run the equipment you want to run you can figure out how many watts of solar panels you need. You can also find site's that will help you with your battery bank as well. If you decide to go off grid? Grid tied is another story and I can't help with that. When you put that all together you'll know what type of inverter you'll need to supply your house, cabin, RV etc. If you do your homework you'll find that solar is a very good choice.. Good luck. Do your HOME WORK first!!
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I don't know - as I understand it, connections are made directly to the battery to keep it at full power. If your battery supplies power to the inverter then I'd suppose you have power at the inverter. A direct connection to the inverter??? If you find that it works I'd like to know. good luck.
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This is a "battery" panel. To work together with my local energy provider, you'll need to connect "grid-tie" panels using quality grid-tie inverters..
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Anything is possible just depends on how much money you want to spend? you will need a pretty heavy duty inverter a large bank of batteries, multiple solar panels and charg controlers to accomplish the power required for Your conditioning unit. You should contract a PV contractor in your area for an estimate. I designed my system for a compete off grid application and it runs everything in my house
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Inverter should be connected to the batteries the last port is for like lights or something like that I have my fridge connected there
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I recommend you read my review. I managed to make this work but DO NOT EXPECT the solar to do anything at all. The panel it comes with is only 1/3 the power required to run the system. It is a 10W panel and you need 30W. They will happily sell you additional panels. The batteries are also worthless. The system has no way to charge them. You actually need to connect them to an external charger to do this. The solar won't charge them. They will also sell you a solar charging module. In the end I removed the solar and the batteries and have it wired to A/C power. Oh and another thing, I have replaced the main control board 3 times since I bought it. The customer service to make this happen as horrible. I am now out of warranty and if the system dies I will simply spend the money and replace it with a higher quality one. Now I am basing this on the kit I purchased 2 years ago. It would be nice if they have changed it but I would not count on it. I hope this helps.
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This device doesn`t support the batterys.Your Charge controller & solar panels determon what charge is in your batterys. The amount of amps drawn from your battery to run this device is determoned by how much power your load is drawing from the inverter.I have 30 deep cycle marine batterys supplying power to my 2500 watt inverter & I run two 1000 watt electric heaters, my frig. and house lights when I have a good supply of sunlight charging my batterys at 14.3 volts from three 40 amp charge controllers.I have at times seen this inverter draw my batterys down on a very cloudy day to 9.6 volts and still put out 115 volts.Any lower battery voltage and the inverter will shut down, but will come back on automatically as soon as the battery voltage gets built back high enough to run the inverter.
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You need a charge controller. I bought this one http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008I0IZ7O/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 , but I had to cut the wires on the solar panel to connect to the charge controller. You can get adapters, but I'm not sure what those are called.
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It will work....however, you would only need the charger if you were going to use a generator to charge the batteries when the solar panels were disconnected or not charging. The solar panel connects to the batteries through the charge controller....then the battles connect to the inverter. Hope this helps!