On a cloudless day, here in winter I rarely see more than 300 watts from 3/300 watt panels. Laying flat, on RV roof.
However, on mixed cloudy days I frequently see the wattage jump up into the high 400’s when the sun pops out(and stays at that level until another cloud). This tells me that the solar charger is throttling the power too much.
My question is their anything I can do do adjust how much the solar charger throttles through put?
Victron MPPT tracking is very fast(sensitive). It will drive you crazy if you sit there watching everything it does. 400 watts on a 900 watts system doesn’t sound crazy.
I think you misunderstood me. I want all the power through put I can get. If it can get up to the 400’s on a cloudy day, it should be able to do the same on a sunny day.
It’s not the MPPT, it’s the cloud edge effect…
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I asked the AI bot what that is.
I think you are correct. Dang it! I wanted a little more output from the panels.