This solar charge controller protects your system from wiring slip-ups, overcharging, and shorts, so you can focus on the road ahead. Clear directions make DIY installs possible, so you can get set up and stay powered wherever you land.
A charge controller has to be sized for both your battery voltage and the amount of solar feeding it. This 40-amp controller supports up to 600 watts on a 12V system or 1,200 watts on a 24V system, giving you clear limits to work with as you plan or expand your array. The controller automatically recognizes 12V and 24V battery banks. Eight presets cover common lithium and lead-acid battery types, including LFP, LTO, LCO, gel, AGM, wet-cell, crystal, and calcium. Custom charging settings give you more control when a compatible battery requires a specific profile.
This MPPT controller continually finds the array's most productive operating point, then converts excess panel voltage into additional charging current. This helps more of the available solar energy reach your battery as sunlight, temperature, and battery conditions change. In comparison, a PWM controller uses a simpler approach by bringing panel voltage down close to battery voltage. That can make PWM a practical choice for a smaller, closely matched system where straightforward operation and lower initial cost matter. With a larger array or a greater difference between panel and battery voltage, MPPT can harvest power that a PWM setup may leave unused.
You should not have to take the system apart to find out how your solar array is performing. The LCD screen and LED indicators show solar input, battery status, system settings, and operating information directly on the controller. Front-mounted controls also let you review settings and check system information from one accessible place, making it easier to monitor charging and identify potential issues.
Incorrect connections, rising temperatures, and unexpected voltage spikes can put your batteries and solar equipment at risk. Built-in safeguards respond to reversed panel or battery polarity, reverse current at night, controller overheating, battery overheating, and transient overvoltage. In addition, the conformal-coated circuit board adds protection for the internal electronics.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hi everybody. Andy here with etrailer.com. Let's take a real quick look at this Rich Solar Bravo 40-Amp MPPT Solar Charge Controller. Now this rich solar Bravo 40 amp hour MPPT solar charge controller is gonna be work great for your RVs, trailers, campers, vans, boats, and off-grid power supply. It's gonna keep your DC appliances going. So some features that this has is it has a reverse discharge protection.
This is targeted for accurate custom setting, has overvoltage protection, short circuit protection, and then internal Bluetooth capability. It also has an external battery temperature and sensor capability. So you see you have an LED display here, buttons here, everything's gonna be very visible. LED lights here. So everything's gonna be very visible here for you to operate this and see things at a glance.
And then you also see that it has a QR code here to download the Bluetooth app, so you can use your smartphone with this. Some hardware is included. Now this does have a system nominal voltage of 12 to 24 volts auto and this weighs about two and a half pounds or so. It's not terribly heavy. And then just some overall measurements.
Taking a look at the overall, let's call it width, we're sitting right about seven and 3/4 inches wide. The overall height, about five and 1/2 inches tall and depth, pretty close to, let me line that up just a little bit better so you can see. Pretty close to three inches, maybe slightly under three inches deep. So it feels like it's well made. Again, I think it's gonna be very easy to set this up and control.
I think that's gonna wrap up our quick look today. I do hope that it was helpful for you. Again, my name is Andy. Thank you for joining me.
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Ratings & Reviews
This controller works just like I thought it would be,just like the discreption of the product information siad it would do.
Great product.
Easy install and it works great.
the Rich solar controller is high quality and easy to get working.
it will suit the job for my camper solar panels.
well done!
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