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For the poor efficiency of solar panels, seems like a big gimmick to try to differentiate and spend a ton of R&D on (solar body panels). I'd find it more inter
by turtlebits 6y ago
For the poor efficiency of solar panels, seems like a big gimmick to try to differentiate and spend a ton of R&D on (solar body panels).
I'd find it more interesting if you could just plug it directly into a solar array.
- onethought 6y agoYou can already do this. There are inverter sets that come with EV chargers.
- Gibbon1 6y agoI think we're going to see more devices that are designed to deal with solar power directly. Like an air conditioner that will throttle back if there is only 2000W of power available instead of the 6000W it normally draws. An example of something that doesn't work well. Saw a guy that installed a heat pump water heater in his off grid house. In heat pump only mode it drew 500W. Problem he had to work around was it on startup it would flip on it's resistive heaters for a couple of seconds. Which would crowbar his inverter. And if he disconnected them it would throw a fault. A slight design change would make it work seamlessly.