150V 45A MPPT - roll your own


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Solar Mike
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Posted: 04:56am 28 Dec 2023      

  mab1 said   ...Still not sure how we can stop the 100hz ripple current though, or stop it showing up in the mpp scan currents


I have been playing with a new controller design, it won't have an inverter fitted to the battery, but I connected a HF 3.5KW 24dc-230vac inverter and checked out the output of the charge current sensor. With a load of 500 watts or so there is a 100hz ripple on the dc current sensor output, approx 100mV; just over an amp charge.

At low charge currents this 100mV ripple causes in my case abnormal MPPT current tracking data, with higher charge currents 10's of amps, has little affect. I got around this issue by over sampling the charge current by 512 times and dividing the result by 512, rejecting any decimals, this averaged out the 100 HZ DC ripple and now works ok.

On other controllers I usually have a 10Hz 18db active filter after the sensor, so the problem hasn't been evident, this particular design doesn't have it.

Cheers
Mike