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| Reviews Summary for CirKits SCC3 Solar Charge Controller Kit |
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Reviews: 2
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Average rating: 5.0/5
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MSRP: $50
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Description: The SCC3 kit is the heart of a 12 Volt solar power system, it regulates the charging of batteries from photovoltaic (PV) solar panels. Regulated charging greatly extends the life of rechargeable batteries when compared to systems with a direct PV-battery connection.
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More info: http://www.cirkits.com/scc3/
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K5BDM
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Rating: 5/5
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Oct 11, 2009 07:09
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Great kit! fits the need
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I bought this kit for all of the reasons stated in the design goals of the seller. "efficiency, simplicity, reliability and the use of field replaceable parts."
The kit was an easy build. No surface mount parts!!
The 25 turn setting resistor provides precision setting of the float voltage. You can set for lead acid at 14.5 V or adjust setting for Gel cell at 13.8 V. This is an excellent well thought out kit and I will be buying a few more for other projects outside of ham radio.
I considered lower cost off the shelf solutions but chose this for its capability and repair using off the shelf easy to install parts.
If you are going solar and do your own electronic repair then this kit is the solution.
K5BDM
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NV0U
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Rating: 5/5
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Dec 25, 2005 07:53
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Neat and useful little kit
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Time owned: 3 to 6 months
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This is a pretty fast building little solar charge controller kit. I had it together in about 2 hours, and then spent the next few days getting it adjusted as I had to make the adjustments while it was charging some pretty flat batteries. Adjustment is super simple - just turn the muliturn pot so the light turns green at the cut off voltage.
I did have some issues with the build instructions though - the large parts get put on first, then the components have to be wedged in between them. I don't have the proverbial fat fingers, but even I had problems to get some of the parts in. Hopefully the build instructions will be changed to do it the other way! Other than this one small complaint, the build went smoothly.
The controller has been perking away without issue for the past few months. It does a really nice job of going into sleep mode when the sun goes down, and waking up and charging the batteries when it comes back up again.
It also creates no noticable QRM when it is charging.
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