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--- opinion:frater_secessus:beginner_mistakes [2024/10/15 19:40]
frater_secessus [making helpers guess]
+++ opinion:frater_secessus:beginner_mistakes [2024/11/26 15:14] (current)
frater_secessus [mounting or deploying tilted panels facing the wrong direction]
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 ==== believing that "I don't know anything about electricity" means there are easy answers to power questions ====
-If you "don't know anything about this stuff" you have a few choices:
+If you "don't understand this stuff" you have a few choices:
-  * [[electrical:12v:intro|learn enough to get the job done]] (traditional and recommended); or
+  * [[electrical:12v:intro|learn enough to get the job done]] (traditional and //highly// recommended);((if/when the system breaks later you will know where and what everything is and how to replace it)) or
   * buy random stuff and hope (depressingly common after 2018); or
   * sit in the dark with no power; or
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 ==== believing 100w of panel will make 100w all year ====
-Solar harvest is greatly affected by the position of the sun in the sky (see above) and how many hours of that sun are available.  A crude generalization is that [[https://mouse.mousetrap.net/blog/2021-12-12-Summer-vs-Winter-solar-harvest-.html|winter harvest will be about half]] of summer harvest.
+Solar harvest is greatly affected by the position of the sun in the sky (see above) and how many hours of that sun are available.  [[https://mouse.mousetrap.net/blog/2021-12-12-Summer-vs-Winter-solar-harvest-.html|Winter harvest will be much lower]] than summer harvest but you'll have to [[electrical:solar:pvwatts|run the numbers for your time/place]] to get specifics.
+Note:  folks who will use the rig year-'round would do well to choose array wattage based on deep winter((typically December in the northern hemisphere)) when yield is lowest.
 ==== believing 100w of panel will make 100w in all conditions ====
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 Rules of thumb:
-  * if panels are tilted and won't be repositioned they should face south in the northern hemisphere, and north in the southern hemisphere.
+  * if panels are tilted and won't be repositioned they should face south in the northern hemisphere, and north in the southern hemisphere.  Look up monthly tilt calculator to see how they should be positioned.
   * if they *will* be repositioned then you have to keep up with the moves or harvest can be worse than just facing south.
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->> I have [a Renogy DCC50S with a 25v input limit], 6x 100w panels, currently wired as 3x 2 panel **series** in parallel, [and destroyed the controller].  I already replaced it once for the same issue and I can’t figure out what’s going on...
+>> I have [a Renogy DCC50S with a 25v input limit], 6x 100w panels, currently wired as 3x 2 panel **series** - parallel, [and destroyed the controller].  I already replaced it once for the same issue and I can’t figure out what’s going on...
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 ==== making helpers guess ====
-If you are asking for help don't make the helpers guess what you are trying to accomplish, what gear you have and how it is connected & configured, whether or not it has ever worked, etc.  People across the internet cannot see what's in front of you -- all we have to go on is what you tell us.
+If you are asking for help don't make the helpers guess:
+  * exactly gear you have and how it is connected & configured.  Links to the product or documentation will be helpful.
+  * whether or not it has ever worked
+  * what you are trying to accomplish
+  * etc.
+People across the internet cannot see what's in front of you or what it's doing -- all we have to go on is what you tell us.  So please tell us as clearly as you can.
 You may want to start a text document that lists all the installed gear and significant settings so

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