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  • Magardion
    Junior Member
    • Apr 2014
    • 5

    Solar Panel and battery powered BLDC motor together

    Is it possible to Power BLDC motor with battery parralely with solar panel?
    so i dont use the energy of solar panel for charge the battery, it will be used together with battery to power the DC motor, is it possible?

    Need your Help
    Thank you
  • Sunking
    Solar Fanatic
    • Feb 2010
    • 23301

    #2
    Originally posted by Magardion
    Is it possible to Power BLDC motor with battery parralely with solar panel?
    so i dont use the energy of solar panel for charge the battery, it will be used together with battery to power the DC motor, is it possible?
    No you cannot have one without the other. Now if the battery happens to be fully charged up and the controller goes into FLOAT mode and the panl output power is available, th epower will come from the panels otherwise the battery supplies what is missing.
    MSEE, PE

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    • Magardion
      Junior Member
      • Apr 2014
      • 5

      #3
      So, what actually happend if i have system like this:
      solar panel go to CC, the ouput CC for charge the battery going to battery, and then the battery parralel with big load (usually go to motor controller first) , like DC motor
      so i dont use the LOAD output of the CC, but the CHARGING output of CC

      what will happend if i design the system like that?
      sorry for this question, im very very beginner in this. Thank you

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      • inetdog
        Super Moderator
        • May 2012
        • 9909

        #4
        Originally posted by Magardion
        So, what actually happend if i have system like this:
        solar panel go to CC, the ouput CC for charge the battery going to battery, and then the battery parralel with big load (usually go to motor controller first) , like DC motor
        so i dont use the LOAD output of the CC, but the CHARGING output of CC

        what will happend if i design the system like that?
        sorry for this question, im very very beginner in this. Thank you
        You never want to connect either the battery or a large load to the LOAD terminals of the CC.
        At most you may want to drive a relay from the LOAD terminal to provide a last-ditch low voltage cutoff function. But the LV cutoff threshold of the typical LOAD output is often too low to do much in the way of battery protection by itself.

        Your description above is exactly the right way to handle large loads with battery and CC. All that you have left out is that you must have fuses between battery and load and between battery and CC.
        SunnyBoy 3000 US, 18 BP Solar 175B panels.

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        • Sunking
          Solar Fanatic
          • Feb 2010
          • 23301

          #5
          Originally posted by Magardion
          So, what actually happend if i have system like this:
          solar panel go to CC, the ouput CC for charge the battery going to battery, and then the battery parralel with big load (usually go to motor controller first) , like DC motor
          so i dont use the LOAD output of the CC, but the CHARGING output of CC

          what will happend if i design the system like that?
          sorry for this question, im very very beginner in this. Thank you
          You get nothing. The LOAD terminal on controllers are pretty much useless. The are for very low power gizmos like a LED light. It is just small relay with a fuse, and a LVD that will open the relay if the battery voltage gets too low Otherwise they are never used for anything and everything gets connected directly to the battery terminals.
          MSEE, PE

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          • Magardion
            Junior Member
            • Apr 2014
            • 5

            #6
            Originally posted by Sunking
            You get nothing. The LOAD terminal on controllers are pretty much useless. The are for very low power gizmos like a LED light. It is just small relay with a fuse, and a LVD that will open the relay if the battery voltage gets too low Otherwise they are never used for anything and everything gets connected directly to the battery terminals.
            Hello Mr Sunking, thank you for replying my thread.
            so, in this case, i dont use the LOAD terminal , but the CHARGING terminal of CC. and it will go to the battery. then it will paralelly with big load such as DC motor controller.

            so i just wanna make sure that the system design is working. how do you think about that? if i had big load, it will need a big current, in my calculation, the solar panel and battery should work together to power the load.

            and for your information, i just use 1 battery

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            • inetdog
              Super Moderator
              • May 2012
              • 9909

              #7
              Originally posted by Magardion
              Hello Mr Sunking, thank you for replying my thread.
              so, in this case, i dont use the LOAD terminal , but the CHARGING terminal of CC. and it will go to the battery. then it will paralelly with big load such as DC motor controller.

              so i just wanna make sure that the system design is working. how do you think about that? if i had big load, it will need a big current, in my calculation, the solar panel and battery should work together to power the load.
              True, but for a really big load the panel contribution will be small compared to what comes from the battery.
              This affects wire sizes among other things.
              SunnyBoy 3000 US, 18 BP Solar 175B panels.

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              • Sunking
                Solar Fanatic
                • Feb 2010
                • 23301

                #8
                OK here is where you are getting lost. for any off-grid power system using batteries you have to determine how many watt hours you need in a day. Once you know that determines your battery size. So let's say you have a pump motor that runs 24 hours per day and uses 200 watts. That means the pump uses 200 watts x 24 hours = 4800 watt hours. If you use say a 24 volt battery will require 1000 AH 24 volt 2000 pound battery.

                The panels must be able to generate what is used daily plus enough to over come system losses. At best a battery system is only 66% efficient. That means if you use 4800 watt hours the panels have to generate a minimum of 7270 watt hours under worse case conditions. So if you live in a area that only Recieves 4 Sun Hours in winter you would need a 1800 watt solar panel.

                So in the day the panels supplies power to both the pump and charges the battery at the same time. Toward the end of the day as sun sets the panels generate less and less power. When the panels are generating less power than the pump is using th e batteries seamlessly makes up for the shortage and supplies power all night until the next morning when the cycle repeats itself.
                MSEE, PE

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                • Magardion
                  Junior Member
                  • Apr 2014
                  • 5

                  #9
                  Ohh thats my point, thank you for the explanation

                  So the truth is i wanna build electric car with solar panel as accessories, the motor power is around 500 watt, and the solar panel is 110 watt, and i just use 1 battery, so i want to minimize the output energy of the battery with solar panel like the system i told

                  Thank you mr

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                  • SunEagle
                    Super Moderator
                    • Oct 2012
                    • 15125

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Magardion
                    Ohh thats my point, thank you for the explanation

                    So the truth is i wanna build electric car with solar panel as accessories, the motor power is around 500 watt, and the solar panel is 110 watt, and i just use 1 battery, so i want to minimize the output energy of the battery with solar panel like the system i told

                    Thank you mr
                    That must be either a very small car or a low speed car with just a 500 watt motor. Depending on your battery Ah rating even with that 110 watt panel I don't think the car will go far before the battery dies.

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                    • Sunking
                      Solar Fanatic
                      • Feb 2010
                      • 23301

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Magardion
                      So the truth is i wanna build electric car with solar panel as accessories, the motor power is around 500 watt,
                      Huh? You wanna build a car with less than 1 HP motor. I have toy RC planes with bigger motors. Heck my golf carts have bigger motors than that.
                      MSEE, PE

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                      • billvon
                        Solar Fanatic
                        • Mar 2012
                        • 803

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Magardion
                        Ohh thats my point, thank you for the explanation

                        So the truth is i wanna build electric car with solar panel as accessories, the motor power is around 500 watt
                        As a reference, I have a bicycle with an 800 watt electric motor. It weighs about 60 pounds. It will hit about 33-34mph on flat asphalt. So if you build a car with a smaller motor expect very low maximum speeds (10mph? 12mph? something like that.)

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                        • russ
                          Solar Fanatic
                          • Jul 2009
                          • 10360

                          #13
                          Originally posted by billvon
                          As a reference, I have a bicycle with an 800 watt electric motor. It weighs about 60 pounds. It will hit about 33-34mph on flat asphalt. So if you build a car with a smaller motor expect very low maximum speeds (10mph? 12mph? something like that.)
                          What happens when you come to a hill? Here I see people pushing the electric bikes to help them top even small hills.
                          [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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                          • billvon
                            Solar Fanatic
                            • Mar 2012
                            • 803

                            #14
                            Originally posted by russ
                            What happens when you come to a hill? Here I see people pushing the electric bikes to help them top even small hills.
                            Deals fine with most hills around here (San Diego.) It slows down considerably of course. There are a few off-road trails near me that it can't make it up at all.

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                            • Magardion
                              Junior Member
                              • Apr 2014
                              • 5

                              #15
                              Originally posted by SunEagle
                              That must be either a very small car or a low speed car with just a 500 watt motor. Depending on your battery Ah rating even with that 110 watt panel I don't think the car will go far before the battery dies.
                              ya, this car weight is just 90 Kg, and it will driven slowly , around 30 kmph.

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