PeteSchwartz
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I bought a 2014 Leaf yesterday.
At Cal Poly, my research students and I are developing ways to directly use DC electricity from solar panels. I’m interested to innovate a way to charge the Leaf directly from solar panels - both from my (not grid tied) home system as well as with onboard PV that we will design. How can I do this?:
1) Where can I learn the details of the charging system?
2) If the first thing that the AC charging system does is rectify the input power (which I don't know is the case), then could I not just run the DC output from solar panels into the AC port? If the subsequent processing is to transform the rectified electricity to high voltage for the battery pack, then could the input voltage be lower than 110 V?
Thanks
Pete
Pete Schwartz
Cal Poly Physics, Sustainability
805-756-1220
[email protected]
Faculty webpage: http://www.physics.calpoly.edu/node/94
At Cal Poly, my research students and I are developing ways to directly use DC electricity from solar panels. I’m interested to innovate a way to charge the Leaf directly from solar panels - both from my (not grid tied) home system as well as with onboard PV that we will design. How can I do this?:
1) Where can I learn the details of the charging system?
2) If the first thing that the AC charging system does is rectify the input power (which I don't know is the case), then could I not just run the DC output from solar panels into the AC port? If the subsequent processing is to transform the rectified electricity to high voltage for the battery pack, then could the input voltage be lower than 110 V?
Thanks
Pete
Pete Schwartz
Cal Poly Physics, Sustainability
805-756-1220
[email protected]
Faculty webpage: http://www.physics.calpoly.edu/node/94