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Anybody with experience with this charge contrl??
By troy, Section Homebrewed Electricity Posted on Thu Aug 28th, 2003 at 03:23:49 PM MST
Anybody with experience with this charge contr.??

I ran across this on ebay, and it looks like a reasonably priced piece of hardware and even made in the USA. Anybody have any experience with this company???
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2343122669&category=3240
thanks in advance,
troy

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by JackS on Thu Aug 28th, 2003 at 08:39:50 PM MST
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i haven't had experience with the controiler but u have bought their nax extractor and it worked as expected

JackS

experience with this charge contrl?? (none / 0) (#2)
by Windswept Cypress on Thu Aug 28th, 2003 at 11:36:46 PM MST
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Troy,
Yeah, I've used the 30A capacity model for about 8 months on a small one-panel (64W) system to run my laptop. Bought on eBay. Think these could be repair/returns. Had my doubts cause never heard of company outside of ebay listing. It is a pretty good design. Only noticeable flaw is underbuilt terminal posts (strippable if not careful) that are too closely spaced/poorly located. Can't comment on the charging efficiency cause no way to measure or compare really. Don't know what the algorithm is--they say its is not PWM but then they dont mention anything about MPPT either, so it is something else. But it is still working. The cabinet is not waterproofed and they recommend keeping ventilated (I keep in plastic container which has ventilation). It seems to be ok for a reasonably high capacity (30A) diversion controller with LED's that tell when charging or diverting, but maybe I got lucky on a repair/return that I am not running a lot of current through.

Hope this helpful

Andy

Re: experience with this charge contrl?? (none / 0) (#3)
by troy on Fri Aug 29th, 2003 at 08:49:16 AM MST
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Hey thanks Andy. Any info is better than just guessing.

Best regards,

troy

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