Hi all,
I'm SURE this has been discussed but I'm not finding what I need. I'm hoping someone can point me to some good threads or resources!!
Here's what I want to do:
I spend a lot of time off grid, usually in Baja. My camper currently has 200w of solar on it and that is plenty to run lights, heater, charge phones/laptotps etc. However I want to be able to charge my other electric toys. I have a Onewheel, a Sur Ron e-bike and an electric Golf Cart/UTV. The Onewheel and Sur Ron are 60v and the golf cart is 48v. All are various lithium chemistries. I can add several more panels to the roof of my camper. Probably room for another 400w, for a total of 600w.
My question is this...What are my options for charging toys that are not 12v. My current charge controller can handle 12v or 24v systems only. I can run an inverter off of the house batteries and solar and then just plug in the chargers for each vehicle but that seems pretty inefficient and not very elegant. Does anyone make a solar charge controller that can handle this directly? Is there some other way? I gotta figure that with the emergence of inexpensive solar and the explosion of battery driven stuff that someone has figured out how to charge various voltage packs.
Any thoughts or ideas? Am I just stuck with doing the inverter to charger method?
Thanks for any thoughts or direction to other resources!!
Monte
I'm SURE this has been discussed but I'm not finding what I need. I'm hoping someone can point me to some good threads or resources!!
Here's what I want to do:
I spend a lot of time off grid, usually in Baja. My camper currently has 200w of solar on it and that is plenty to run lights, heater, charge phones/laptotps etc. However I want to be able to charge my other electric toys. I have a Onewheel, a Sur Ron e-bike and an electric Golf Cart/UTV. The Onewheel and Sur Ron are 60v and the golf cart is 48v. All are various lithium chemistries. I can add several more panels to the roof of my camper. Probably room for another 400w, for a total of 600w.
My question is this...What are my options for charging toys that are not 12v. My current charge controller can handle 12v or 24v systems only. I can run an inverter off of the house batteries and solar and then just plug in the chargers for each vehicle but that seems pretty inefficient and not very elegant. Does anyone make a solar charge controller that can handle this directly? Is there some other way? I gotta figure that with the emergence of inexpensive solar and the explosion of battery driven stuff that someone has figured out how to charge various voltage packs.
Any thoughts or ideas? Am I just stuck with doing the inverter to charger method?
Thanks for any thoughts or direction to other resources!!
Monte