This whole discussion is about trade offs, not will it work or not.? If you put the solar controller on the side of the battery box, you'll get about 13% more power (rough guess) than if you mount it on the panel which is connected by 20 ft wires. That becomes 26% if you go to 40 ft wires.
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Cindy, in your case, you don't care, because you have about 4x the power you need.? But for others, the cost of some connectors and a few feet of wire is worth the extra 13 or 26%.
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On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 10:41 PM, Cindy Harris wrote:
I use a 20 foot extension on my 200w suitcase solar panel. Works perfectly: I¡¯ve been camped for 10 days in variable weather with no battery issues. And I even had enough solar power to recharge my Bluetti so I¡¯d have enough AC to charge my toothbrush and run a coffee grinder. The secret there is rewiring the solar panel suitcase so that you can easily unplug one of the panels from the controller and plug it into the Bluetti. The recharge was really just a proof of concept to see how it would work - I didn¡¯t use even 20% of the Bluetti power station capacity. Took a minute to connect, about an hour to recharge and another minute to reconnect.?
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I¡¯d say just go ahead and plan to camp at the edge of the shade and extend the solar panels out into the sun. 20 feet of wire is not a problem.?
Cindy
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2023 International Autoharp Champion
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Have you experienced??
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And lets not forget, having your panel 30 ft away from your Aliner out in the sun, is really 60+ ft of line loss as you have to count both the Pos & Neg wire lengths.?
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Cindy Harris
Pittsburgh, PA
2013 Expedition
