Saturday, February 8, 2025

RPi update & battery calculations

 The RPi is online and running 24/7 now, but not collecting data or moving the array. 

I decided to bite the bulket and update to Bookworm OS and python's virtual environments.

I still haven't gotten the network set up the way I want and the OS included Exar driver is not working, and while the Maxlinear driver compiles, it is not inserting ('insmod').

More study is needed.

I still need two more batteries.


Battery charge time calculations.

I have 585 watts of solar panels that I will round off to 600w.

I also have 4.2kW of battery storage.

4.2kW/0.6kW=7hr to full charge

But, the charge controller has a ma charge rate of 20A for the configuration.

20A x 12V = 240W=0.24kW

 This results in a charge time of 

4.2kW / 0.24kW = 17.5hrs to full charge from complete discharge.

A complete discharge is not likely since system shutoff is set at 10.5V.

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