Hi,
I bought a 120 Watt Mono Crystalline PV Solar Panel off Ebay from a reputable seller a couple of years ago for camping although I'm yet to get it working properly. I also bought a PWM 10 amp charge controller although as soon as I plugged the solar panel in it burnt the controller out. Believing the controller to be faulty I bought another off Ebay as they're only £13. Again it blew the controller. Although when I took the controller apart to check the damage I notice this time the controller had a fuse so rather than burn the controller out it blew the fuse. The fuse is not replaceable as it's soldered to the PCB board.
My setup is simple. I've connected the controller to my car battery that's still connected to my car and the the solar panel is connected to the charge controller and obviously the supply outlet is connected to provide pover to my appliances, i.e laptop, phone chargers, light chargers.
I bought the panel soley for camping so I could feed from the car battery and keep it topped up with the solar panel. When I've checked the output of the solar panel with a multimeter it's outputting 21/22 volts. Give the charge controller says it 12/24 volt I wouldn't have thought it would have caused the blowing of the charge controller.
Any suggestions please as I'm off camping again next week and I'd ideally like to get this solar panel working
Cheers Ian
I bought a 120 Watt Mono Crystalline PV Solar Panel off Ebay from a reputable seller a couple of years ago for camping although I'm yet to get it working properly. I also bought a PWM 10 amp charge controller although as soon as I plugged the solar panel in it burnt the controller out. Believing the controller to be faulty I bought another off Ebay as they're only £13. Again it blew the controller. Although when I took the controller apart to check the damage I notice this time the controller had a fuse so rather than burn the controller out it blew the fuse. The fuse is not replaceable as it's soldered to the PCB board.
My setup is simple. I've connected the controller to my car battery that's still connected to my car and the the solar panel is connected to the charge controller and obviously the supply outlet is connected to provide pover to my appliances, i.e laptop, phone chargers, light chargers.
I bought the panel soley for camping so I could feed from the car battery and keep it topped up with the solar panel. When I've checked the output of the solar panel with a multimeter it's outputting 21/22 volts. Give the charge controller says it 12/24 volt I wouldn't have thought it would have caused the blowing of the charge controller.
Any suggestions please as I'm off camping again next week and I'd ideally like to get this solar panel working
Cheers Ian
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