Hello,
I belong to a Flying club where I live and was asked to figure up a materials list and estimated cost of what it would be to install Solar power for a charging station. This is what I know; The charging station will remain at the field, The solar power needs to produce enough wattage to handle charging 4 6 cell batteries plus assume 4-8 3 cell batteries at a time. The 6 Cell battery chargers pull 200-300W in order charge them within an hour. So I'm assuming 3 cell batteries would be about half that so assume 150W to charge them in an hour. These batteries are being assumed to be charged 20-30x a day. The batteries that will be charged are Lipo batteries.
I'm just starting to research solar energy and don't know a lot about it. So this what I got so far for questions.
What size solar panel(s) do I need and how many should be assumed I would need?
What type of batteries are recommended for a low budget project?
What kind of cable do I use to run for the solar panels to hook them to one another as well as the batteries?
What other materials do I need or are suggested?
Thats all I can think of at the moment, if you think of anything else I've forgotten, please add it to your response, thank you.
I belong to a Flying club where I live and was asked to figure up a materials list and estimated cost of what it would be to install Solar power for a charging station. This is what I know; The charging station will remain at the field, The solar power needs to produce enough wattage to handle charging 4 6 cell batteries plus assume 4-8 3 cell batteries at a time. The 6 Cell battery chargers pull 200-300W in order charge them within an hour. So I'm assuming 3 cell batteries would be about half that so assume 150W to charge them in an hour. These batteries are being assumed to be charged 20-30x a day. The batteries that will be charged are Lipo batteries.
I'm just starting to research solar energy and don't know a lot about it. So this what I got so far for questions.
What size solar panel(s) do I need and how many should be assumed I would need?
What type of batteries are recommended for a low budget project?
What kind of cable do I use to run for the solar panels to hook them to one another as well as the batteries?
What other materials do I need or are suggested?
Thats all I can think of at the moment, if you think of anything else I've forgotten, please add it to your response, thank you.
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