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Old 08-09-2015, 03:06 PM   #12 (permalink)
e*clipse
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This is an excellent, pragmatic range for a charger - exactly what I want to do.

What drives the converter into DCM? Is it the voltage difference between the battery voltage and the peak rectified AC voltage?

What happens in the situation of DC input, with limited current (solar). Would it be possible to stay near the maximum power point of the solar panels? Maybe not a perfect mppt set-up, but close?

Also, to do the pulsed charging near the end of the charge cycle, what do these controllers do? The Infineon one I used had a "sleep" mode.

Thanks a bunch,

E*clipse
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