April 25. Just recently purchased a AC200PL and was planning on using my povo cheap eBay solar panels to charge it. They work fine for my two other power stations VTOMAN and Allpowers. The instructions manual for the bluetti says -solar panels must meet the following requirements, current 15A max, and my solar panels are Maximum power current 16.7A and short circuit current 17.8A. Will they fry my new bluetti?
Don’t worry if Isc or Impp exceeds 15A of your AC200PL because, as you’ll see, the current will be limited to 15A. However, what’s critical is not to exceed 145V max at the solar input of your AC200PL, because otherwise you’ll burn out the solar input of your AC200PL. (Be careful when calculating the voltage supplied by your panels to your AC200PL; you must use the Voc of your panels, not Vmpp).
- One last piece of advice: check that the voltage supplied by your panels in the series or parallel configuration (calculated with the Vmpp of your panels) is greater than 30V (because then your AC200pl won’t limit the current to 8A thinking it’s a cigarette lighter socket).