Hi everyone, I am a novice in solar energy system. I want to know if I am on the right track. Recently I bought a 30 W solar panel, 5 Amp controller, and a 22 Ah battery, how many watts and what kind of INVERTER do I need? I did an research some said 50 W and some said 300 W. And am I right on the 5 amp controller and 22 Ah battery to provide larger output of electric, or the higher the # the greater output for 30 W solar panel?Really appreciate for anyone who help!!!
With a 30 watt panel, producing about 2 amps, your not going to have much power from that. A 22 AH battery will give you 2 AH of usage. A battery should never be drained below 50%. What this works out to be is simply Amp draw for 2 hours. Which equals to 2V light bulb that draws amp for 2 hours. Not much. Now to replace that usage with your 30 watt panel, provided the panel is clean and in max sunlight, it will take 6 hours. If you attach an inverter to your system for 5 Volt Usage then the DC voltage drawn from the battery is very high. Example: Say you use a 5 Volt component that requires 50 Watts per hour to operate. The inverter will draw 5 Amps out of the Battery every hour to operate that component. That gives you and /2 of use before the battery is down to 50%.. Maybe that will be enough to charge up a standard Laptop battery. I have 2 30 Watt panels that produce 5 Amps, 4 6V batteries that have 480 AH and a 25 Amp Controller with a booster that increase the amp output to 20 Amps per hour. I live full time in an RV and raise the panels to get max output when I am parked. This system provides me with all the 5V throught the 500 Watt inverter that I need. Good luck on you system.
must be one of the place who's place have sun
