Good morning.
We will be installing part of our system in a couple weeks over thanksgiving. I bought a Schneider system and a pallet of panels from Signature on Saturday hours before their free shipping deal went out so I realize that some if this is going to seem a little backwards, but life isn't linear, so I'm ok with a few backhanded comments if necessary.
I bought more panels than necessary because we're going to add on to our system next year at tax refund season and the price was right.
We're getting a Schneider 100/600 MPPT charge controller. If I am understanding the piles of information I've read/listened through this past weekend, I can run up to about 8500 watts/550 volts on this one controller to charge a 16kw battery bank. My panels will have a low temp voc of 43 volts at 400 watts so I can run 10 panels serial connected to produce 4000 watts at 430 volts (at max low temp. the rated voc is 36.8). The charge controller has inputs for two strings.
My question is:
Can I run two of those 10 panel strings and wire each string directly to the controller or do I need to put them in parallel before I get to the controller for 8000 watts at 430 volts? Is this a question for schneider? I'm roof mounted and don't have to worry about long wire runs.
Thanks!
We will be installing part of our system in a couple weeks over thanksgiving. I bought a Schneider system and a pallet of panels from Signature on Saturday hours before their free shipping deal went out so I realize that some if this is going to seem a little backwards, but life isn't linear, so I'm ok with a few backhanded comments if necessary.
I bought more panels than necessary because we're going to add on to our system next year at tax refund season and the price was right.
We're getting a Schneider 100/600 MPPT charge controller. If I am understanding the piles of information I've read/listened through this past weekend, I can run up to about 8500 watts/550 volts on this one controller to charge a 16kw battery bank. My panels will have a low temp voc of 43 volts at 400 watts so I can run 10 panels serial connected to produce 4000 watts at 430 volts (at max low temp. the rated voc is 36.8). The charge controller has inputs for two strings.
My question is:
Can I run two of those 10 panel strings and wire each string directly to the controller or do I need to put them in parallel before I get to the controller for 8000 watts at 430 volts? Is this a question for schneider? I'm roof mounted and don't have to worry about long wire runs.
Thanks!