24 VOLT SOLAR BATTERY BANK - How To Wire It Up - Wiring Charts Included

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I cringe every time I see someone wiring up and using a 12 volt battery bank with solar power. They are highly inefficient and chances are, if you go through any extreme temperatures, you will ruin them quickly and they will never take a charge again.

I have always recommended to homesteaders or anyone building a small solar battery bank to use 24 volt instead of 12 volt. By doubling the voltage you get double the power (Watts) at the same current(Amps). Most houses that have large solar arrays will actually use 48 volts as that is even more efficient than 24. Does that sound complicated, it's not. But its a main reason why more people are not using solar today in America and we'll cover that in another video.

Below are the mentioned wiring diagrams that we use here on the homestead. I'm not sure how these show up in Dtube as markup at this point does not seem to work, but you can see them if you go over to our steemit page and view them from there.

This diagram powers our small home and we use it to charge laptops and cell phones.

This diagram powers are greenhouse and aquaponics system.

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