@quixoticgeek what panels do you have?
@stfn I have a 100w and a 50w. But am only using the 100w at the moment. This isn't a serious attempt at getting power from the sun for anything useful. It's just learning about stuff.
@quixoticgeek That is super cool, I am also thinking about getting a ~100W solar panel to learn stuff, I want to charge my 12V battery with it
@stfn what battery do you have? I killed a 15ah sealed lead acid by charging it too fast at some point. It had a max charge rate of 4.5a. Which my 100w panel exceeds at max
@quixoticgeek I have a 26Ah lead acid, and I am planning to charge from via thingy: https://botland.store/accessories-for-solar-panels/13313-dfrobot-dfr0580-solar-power-manager-for-12v-lead-acid-battery.html Hope that will control the current properly
@stfn that's putting out max 4a. So should be ok. But you won't get your full 100w from the panel.
@stfn check what your battery can handle in the first instance.
@quixoticgeek 5.5A from the specsheet
@quixoticgeek that is one way to do it. Or find a more powerful power manager, or just stick to a single 50W panel.