Questions tagged [solar-energy]
Form of renewable energy emitted by the Sun, coming in two flavours: photovoltaic and thermal. The former, especially, relates closely to electrical engineering since it is traditionally harnessed through semiconductor devices and converted to AC in order to feed the electric grid or individual users' homes.
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Managing Solar Power, battery, and load for raspbery pi - designing power management system
So, I am working on a scientific instrument that measures air quality. It uses a raspberry pi with a couple of sensors. Essentially, this instrument is going to be deployed in an Urban area in a ...
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Off Grid Without Battery Inverter [closed]
Respected Members,
In My Country Pakistan hundreds of peoples selling off grid inverters that are working without battery. But I am not sure whether it is safe or not? because solar production is not ...
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Do we need MPPT in grid synchronization and string inverters? [closed]
I have two questions regarding the MPPT grid synchronization. I have seen that it takes a few minutes for the inverter to get synchronized with the grid. I want to ask that does the inverter first ...
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Charging a battery using solar panels, and IV curve of the solar panel
I am aware that a solar panel has a fixed IV curve, and the load resistance can move the operating point of the solar panel along the IV curve.
If a solar panel was used to directly charge a battery ...
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Solar emergency LED Night light control design: Solar panel, 5 V : 3.7 V 18650 Li-ion or similar as Vref. No negative voltage. Only GND. Which Op-Amp?
Solar charging daytime with 0 V battery output to micro LED chain.
At nightfall, solar voltage drops to 0, activating Vout: 3.7 V or alternative Lithium chemistry to power 30 ft (100×) white LED rope ...
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Difference between MPPT charger and MPPT boost converter
I am quite confused regarding the MPPT charger and the MPPT boost converter. I have a hybrid inverter where I have a boost converter circuit at the beginning with inputs from the PV. The output of it ...
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Earth protection in PV + battery system
I'm building a system that looks like this:
PV -> solar charger (48 V) -> batteries (48 V) -> isolated DC/DC (48 V->12 V) -> non isolated DC/DC (12 V->3 V) -> load
The PV's are on ...
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Solar Array Control With Photocell
We did search on this topic before making this post, but this is as close as we found; Link to question from 2020: Solar Panel-Photocell Wiring
... which didn't seem to be closely enough related to ...
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Are 96V lead acid batteries a thing?
In the context of renewable energy grids (eg large-scale PV), I've seen people use 12V, 24V, and 48V batteries. I haven't seen 96V batteries.
I'm wondering, as things continue to scale-up to large-...
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Charge EV from array of small solar panels DC/AC
Suppose I have 20 solar panels specified to yield 18V, 40-80W.
What would be the best (most efficient, non-damaging) way to use this to charge an EV, if possible?
Note that it doesn't matter for me ...
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Confusion regarding solar power?
I was reading book of gilbert and i came across the following statement
One of the most useful ways to describe energy production from a PV array
is in terms of kWh/yr delivered per kW of STC rated ...
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Low Solar Panel Voltage Vmp Operation
so I'm currently working on an MPPT project using Asynchronous Buck Converter with the design :
Capacitor Input : 470uF/100V
Capacitor Output : 1000uF/100V
Inductor : 65uH
fsw : 39khz
current : 30A
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Why not always size solar cells and charge/power management module to three times continuous load power?
I am asking this question because it seems to me that this is necessary always, but I don't see people doing it. I see 196A battery to inverter setups with a 40A charger only. To me that seems wrong.
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Why not always connect cells in series to increase voltage in solar component setups? [closed]
I am designing a solar system which I can take to an Indio village deep into the Amazon forest, and thinking about some principles. I am talking about a 2, 3, or even 6 kW system. I see a big problem ...
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Solar panel charging Li-ion battery with PWM + MOSFET
My idea is to set up a circuit that uses a 18 V, 15 W solar panel to charge three 3.7 V 21700 Li-ion batteries in series (nominal voltage = 11.1 V) while the solar panel is connected directly to the ...
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