Comments on: SolarMagic, Solar Magic

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:55:15 +0000

Yes, Jo.
I notice the blocking diode product has ‘99.8 % efficiency’ with a 0.7 volt voltage drop.

If you put this diode in a 240watt 24V system, then it may have 10amps going through it.
It will waste 0.7 volts x 10amps = 7 Watts. 3% of the power.
I don’t know where they get a value of 99.8% Most of the time in most systems it is must less efficient than this.
Which leads me to believe the other efficiency figures may be rubbery.

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:30:51 +0000

Most likely it works like a DC-DC power supply with MPPT adjustment at the input. If different then it is a scam.

To me it is very bad marketing not to disclose how it works and call it “magic”.

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