Solar Freaks

Hi,

I've been looking for a mppt for my solar rc hobby project. I'm lost in web. Fatmax looks perfect to me but the online shop solarmppt.com looks dead for a while. I also sent an e-mail to camartech.com (ENGELEC SOLAR CAR ENERGY MAXIMISER http://www.camartech.com.au/ress/bin/po ... 6&column=3 ) but it was dead end too. Can you help me finding one.

Hey mate,

I can supply you with an Automax is you need.
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automax-documentation-t398.html

Whats you exact application?
Are you going to use it charge batteries/Caps or run the motor directly??

Cheers
TonyB

hi tony,

It looks better than easymax to me with its continuous readings ability... I'm going to use it for several projects. I would like to tell my solar journey that bring me to mppt. by the way i dont have any electronics knowledge. I bought some solar cells 8x1,5v500ma, 6x1,5v250ma and 6x4,2v100ma. i try to drive toy rc car with the solar power. it worked if you push them in the start so i bought 2 autotrol dc motor 746rpm 12v 6-26ma operating power. because of the weight of 12v 320ma solar powered car motor couldn't perform very well. I began to search internet for valid solution and i found fatmax, easymax and solarfreaks.com.

First i want to play with my toy rc car with decent performance. After that i'm going to try real rc cars 1/18 1/10 with brushless motor or maxon (hard to find too and also expensive).

At last questions about automax:
it can give enough power for motors but lets say solar panel power is 12v 300ma and i have nimh battery 9,6v 600ma can automax charge them ?
With same panel 12v 300ma, can automax covert it to 1,2v 3000ma to feed 3A esc.
final question how much does it coast ?

tony can you also suggest me esc motor servo etc.. work with automax. may be can find them at hobbyking.com. And i would like to buy maximiser and other stuffs as soon as possible before christmas rush