RidgeTopWVA
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- John Deere 4400
How many solar panels would it take to run a window air conditioner ?
Maybe only one of you have a big enough battery and you don’t want to run it often. If you mean how many will it take to run the AC directly from the panels, that’s almost impossible. Each panel only produces about .5 volts with varying watts depending on the size of panel. Really hard to get the power you need without a battery (bank) as ACs have pretty significant starting draws and are fairly power hungry in general.
Key word, panels. What is the cell voltage in your panels? It’s going to be between .5v and .6v. 37vdc is a sum of the output from the number of cells and number of panels. You obviously invested a lot in the system, so you probably understand this.0.5V??
Panels on my shop at 44VDC open circuit, 37VDC loaded.
Each string coming into inverter is ~ 530VDC open, 450VDC loaded
Key word, panels. What is the cell voltage in your panels? It’s going to be between .5v and .6v. 37vdc is a sum of the output from the number of cells and number of panels. You obviously invested a lot in the system, so you probably understand this.
Each panel only produces about .5 volts
it doesn't matter, he's wasting people's time with his antics. no one gives a crap about cell voltage, as its completely irrelevant.You wrote 'panel' in your initial reply, instead of cells. Thats where the confusion came in.
Grrrr, that's why you can't trust anything on the internet. Sometimes I iz we Todd did.You wrote 'panel' in your initial reply, instead of cells. Thats where the confusion came in.