Felicity Solar Charge Controller is it good enough? 

Nice one

😊How much did you buy it then?

@@maduakorhenry2336 85k

​@@maduakorhenry2336I bought mine in 2022 May for #90k at Felicity Main Office Alaba 60a mppt

Yeah that will always happen to a first time user, Thanks for sharing man.

That indeed is a flaw with it

Fantastic this is a brilliant idea

The question is not complete, I don't follow

@@smilinsunsmilinsun8056 A Felicity Inverter/charger has already charged the batteries. Is there a use case when we have to bypass the Felicity Inverter internal charger and add an external Felicity charge controller?

@@apphandler Unfortunately it doesn't have a logging system

Thanks a bunch

Thanks for your comment will review must

Thanks for reaching out with this very important question. The inverter and charge controller are set with the charge limit voltage capacity. If the voltage is set to 58 volts for instance it will never take the voltage higher than that. It is also set to Absorption charge duration. Lets assume that to be 120 minutes , once it gets to that duration it will stop charging. It is also set to current limit. If the set current limit 60 Amps and the inverter is supplying 30 Amps the charge controller will limit its own charge current to 30 Amps which cumulatively makes 60 Amps. It goes on and on.

@@smilinsunsmilinsun8056 Thanks.

Solar system can do anything your regular Grid power can do. Yes it can power your air conditioner. Anything from 3.5kva Inverter is fine .

@@smilinsunsmilinsun8056 thanks so much but someone says that running an air condition on solar will reduce the lifespan on your battery

Check the manual it's very easy to set up

It depends on the charge controller, but most of them is usually 150V

Thank you for major assistance.... I celebrate you sir..

Okay Bro

A function display would have been a lot better than studying the blinking patern lol, Thanks for the insight.

30 Amps will be fine

The older model does but for some reason it was desoldered. Maybe it was to reduce the cost of manufacturing to be competitive for the Nigerian market. I don't think they would ship the products to well electronic regulated countries without making sure it 100% represents what is on the manual.

@@jo4milThis is the problem I have with all these products sold in Nigeria. They sometimes ignore proper quality control since they know our country does not have any standard quality control agent. How is the performance of the controller overall please. Is it worth the money?

@@EasyyokeFilms newer model is very good. It handles over-voltage charge interrupts better than the older ones. Installing multiple charge controllers without some form of sync between charge controllers is not an effective means of design from my view but its cost effective. But it works-

Will do thank you for your kind comments

Connect the positive and negative battery terminals to a buzz bar

Yes , that is why it's called heat sink. It's supposed to be hot when in use. Make sure it's mounted in a good well ventilated location (with plenty of space to allow easy airflow around it). From experience, solar charge controller with heat sink are more durable than the cheap fan cool China Solar charge controller. I nearly had a fire outbreak when the fan in one of my charge controller failed while in operation and the charge controller became extremely hot with burning smell. I was just lucky to spot it promptly and shut down the system. I did my research and upgraded my charge controllers to one with heat sink. Just provide enough ventilation to your heat sink based solar charge controller and make sure your panel Voc does not exceed your solar charger maximum input voltage.

Either something is wrong with your configuration or your settings is wrong

@@smilinsunsmilinsun8056 the panels are in 4 in series connect to 2 parallel

Check your panel configurations. You did not mention the specifications of your solar charge controller. I presume you are using 60amps 48v solar charge controller or higher? Since you have 8 solar panels, your best configuration will be to connect 4 panels in series to get two strings and then parallel the two strings making sure the Voc (open circuit voltage of the panels) is not above 150v (maximum input voltage of the felicity charge controller). However, the above may not be the problem. Majority of the solar panels sold in Nigeria are substandard. Many panels will not even produce close to half of their rated wattage. That is why you must buy high quality solar panels. Yes the quality of solar panels matters very much. I had similar experience where my 320w x 8 solar panels (made up of 320wx 4 MS solar panel and 320w x 4 Joy solar panel, both monochrystalline) hardly produces close to 1000w. Solution: I had to upgrade my solar panel by buying higher quality new 455w monochrystalline Canadian solar panels from prag in Lagos. I'm currently 100% off grid. I have 24hrs lights.

The system needs to drop the voltage to accommodate the current as both is what is needed to generate wartage

@@smilinsunsmilinsun8056 thank you

Yes I did, needed to understand how the Controller worked

Am asking bcos I got a generic mppt charge controller and it over charged and damaged my sealed lead battery and my prag inverter, now I got Felicity lithium ion don't wanna make dat costly mistake again.

Yes it is

@@edidiongjoseph007 Sorry to hear the mishap you experienced in your system, the Felicity charge controller will charge your Lithium effectively.

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Thanks

I tried configuring the Maximum charging current for this 120A charge controller but the maximum is 80A and if I press the button again it goes back to 30A. Is it okay?

@@Kingeddybongo That's not normal you should be to set to the maximum charge current

@@Kingeddybongo You are welcome

What's the challenge you have?

List out the Charge controller you would want rto be reviewed. And I will try to review them.

Sir, I’ll like you to review Techfine charge controller. Thanks

Ok, I would like you to review: SUOER mppt, SUNCHONLIC mppt, Powmr mppt, YOHAKO mppt charge controllers etc. Remember, good & affordable mppt charge controllers. Thank you Sir.

@@user-lk2gq1vh5e Thanks for the information will try

Yohako and Must are the same. One cheap underdog I had used was Choice Mppt CC. It was bogus but I was quite impressed wrt cost. But "F" has messed me up so many times costing me inverter fault inclusive. Let me just reduce my volume else they will 😢😢 from the feedback.

It doesn't, it will come on though but it's dangerous for your batteries

@@smilinsunsmilinsun8056 Correct. Spec sheet shows: Compatible for PV systems in 12V, 24V or 48V. So either only use two batteries or obtain a fourth. If you have no other choice, a person could manually cycle the battery connections round-robin style every few hours, where only two batteries are being charged at a time. But that would be very time intensive.

Doesn't work with a 36v system parameters. If you are using above 1 unit, my candid advice is look for another brand.

Thank you so much plz for all your advice I got a must mppt it's doing the work so fine in pleased. 😊😊🙏🙏

Oh really, I have never used 60 amps version, Thanks for that info Buddy!

Very salient and key points

Where is their service center please

True

Even if you set to 24 or 48v, you have to manually be calculating the voltage parameters as it's only in 12v

@@namzy410 not really. You can set parameters to 48v range

Check your AC input wiring, that's an indication that something it's wrong and it tripping off to avoid damage