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Old 05-22-2013, 02:44 PM   #6111 (permalink)
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That is very cool. I don't have to tell you that you NEED to make a video!!! I want to see that monstrosity of awesomeness. No pressure though. Take your time.

I recently bought seven 600v 600amp IGBTs. One of them is for a maximum power point tracking charger (fancy way of saying it makes the output current as big as possible. lol) for my solar array. Then I need to figure out what to do with the other 6. Hmm... 6*600 = 3600 amps... Maybe derate to 2000. I've got that golf cart outside. I think the motor can probably do a tenth of that for like 3 seconds. haha. There's always Ben, ready to test anything. I bet his motor wouldn't break. It's 10" diameter I think.

I also got some 10mil x 12" x 4 foot copper sheet, and some 5 mil x 1.5" x 36 yard Kapton tape, which is good to like 18,000 volts of insulation.

I also ordered 2 ring capacitors, but they are smaller 500uF types. One of them is for the solar charger, and one is for probably the 3 phase inverter.

The buck charger should be good to around 70kW how it is, since I'm using a 200amp continuous inductor inside it. It's so nice to have 5600W worth of power at basically any stinking voltage I want! Thank you panels! Well, in increments of 35-45v. From 35v at 155 amps up to 700v at 8 amps. But they will only be good for another 40-50 years, so I better hurry. hahaha.

Oh crap! here's some competition:
MPPT charger

Theirs can output all the way up to 48v! holy cow! hahaha. And an input of all the way to 200v. The ONLY MPPT charger that works with the new high voltage panels. what the heck?! 200v is some kind of record? Have they never heard of 600v 600amp IGBTs on ebay?

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