SUNTHYSIS 10-13 Portable Foldable Solar Panel Kit User Guide

SUNTHYSIS
100W SOLARSUITCASE
20A PWM Waterproot Gontroller

10-13 Portable Foldable Solar Panel Kit

Important Safety Instructions
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This manual contains important safety, installation, and operating instructions for the chargecontroller. The following symbols are used throughout the manual to indicate potentially dangerous conditions or important safety information.

WARNING -Indicates a potentially dangerous condition. Use extreme caution whenperforming this task.
CAUTION -Indicates a critical procedure for safe and proper operation of the controller
NOTE -Indicates a procedure or function that is important to the safe and proper operation of the controller.

General Safety Information

1. Read and follow all instructions and precautions mentioned in this user manual beforebeginning the installation.
2. There are no serviceable parts for this controller. Do NOT disassemble or attempt to repair the controller.
3. Make sure all connections going into and from the controller are tight

Battery Safety

1. Use only sealed lead-acid, flooded, gel or lithium (LFP) batteries which must be deep cycle.
2. Explosive battery gases may be present while charging. Be certain there is enoughventilation to release the gases.
3. Be careful when working with large lead acid batteries. Wear eye protection and have fresh water available in case there is contact with the battery acid.
4. Carefully read battery manuals before operation.
5. Do NOT let the positive (+) and negative (-) terminals of the battery touch each other.
6. Recycle battery when it is replaced.
7. 0ver-charging and excessive gas precipitation may damage the battery plates and activate material shedding on them. Too high of an equalizing charge or too long of one may cause damage. Please carefully review the specific requirements of the battery used in the system.
8. Equalization is carried out only for nonsealed / vented/ flooded /wet cell lead acid batteries.
9. Do NOT equalize sealed / VRLA type AGM / Gel cell batteries UNLESS permitted by battery manufacturer.

Key Parts

1.20A PWM Charge Controller
2.Junction Box
3.MC4 Connectors| 4.Tilt Stands
5.Battery Alligator Clips
6. In-line fuse (10A)| 7.Latch
8.Handle
9.Suitcases (Not pictured)
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Size Drawing

Installation

1. Unlatch and unfold unit then connect MC4 Connectors
   

2. Connect Battery Alligator Clips to 12V Battery

3. Unscrew butterfly nut tilt to desired angle and lock butterfly nut
   To maximize the output, adjust the angle of the suitcase regularly to track the sun’s movement throughout the season
   

Four Charging Stages

OUR PWM charge controller has a 4-stage battery charging algorithm for a rapid, efficient, and safe battery charging. They include: Quick Charge, Boost Charge, Float Charge and Equalization Charge.When the battery start-up charging voltage is lower than  12.6V (12V battery), the battery will go through three stages of fast charging, boost charging and floating charging. When the starting charging voltage of the battery is higher than 12.6v (12v battery), the battery will go through two stages of fast charging and floating charging.

Fast Charge: The controller charges the battery at the maximum output current.
Boost Charge: The controller starts to limit the charge current so that the battery voltage is fixed at a fixed sink voltage (this voltage is temperature compensated) for 2 hours. Improve battery charge saturation level, prevent battery leakage and increase battery  life
Float charging: The battery is in a saturated state, once the battery is fully charged, no more chemical reactions can take place and all charging current is turned into heat or gas.
Because of this, the charge controller will reduce the voltage charge to a smaller amount while lightly charging the battery. The purpose of this is to offset power consumption while maintaining full battery storage capacity. (this voltage has temperature  compensation)
Equalization: Is carried out every 28 days of the month. It is intentional overcharging of the battery for a controlled period of time. Certain types of batteries benefit from periodic equalizing charge, which can stir the electrolyte, balance battery voltage and  complete chemical reaction. Equalizing charge increases the battery voltage, higher than the standard complement voltage, which gasifies the battery electrolyte.
-Once equalization is active in the battery charging, it will not exit this stage unless there is adequate charging current from the solar panel. There should be NO load on the batteries when in equalization charging stage.
-Over-charging and excessive gas precipitation may damage the battery plates and activate material shedding on them. Too high of equalizing charge or for too long may cause damage. Please carefully review the specific requirements of the battery used in the  system.
Equalization may increase battery voltage to a level damaging to sensitive DC loads. Ensure that all load allowable input voltages are greater than the equalizing charging set point volt- age.

Lithium Battery Activation
Our PWM charge controller has a reactivation feature to awaken a sleeping lithium battery.
The protection circuit of lithium battery will typically turn the battery off and make it unusable if over-discharged. This can happen when storing a lithium battery pack in a discharged state for any length of time as self- discharge would gradually deplete the  remaining charge. Without the wake-up feature to reactivate and recharge batteries, these batteries would become unserviceable and the packs would be discarded. The controller will apply a small charge current to activate the protection circuit and if a correct  cell voltage can be reached, it starts anormal charge.
When using the controller to charge a 24V lithium battery bank, set the system voltage to 24V instead of auto recognition.

PWM Controller User Manual

Thank you for choosing this series Solar Charge Controller.
Please read this Manual carefully before using the produc.

Product Features

This series controller is a PWM charge controller with built in LCD that adopts the most advanced digital technique. The multiple load control modes enable it can be widely used on solar off grid system, traffic signal, solar street light, etc.

• System voltage of battery 12V/24V or 12V/24V/36V/48V automatic recognition;
• Intelligent 4 stages PWM charging: Bulk, Absorption, Equalize, Float;
• LCD display with Back-lighting shows device’s operating data and working condition;
• Humanized simple button operation; Adjustable charge-discharge control parameters;
• Support more kinds of battery: Lead-acid battery(Sealed, Gel, Flooded) and Lithium battery (LICOoMnNiO2, LiFePO4);
• Multiple load control modes:24Hours Working Control, Light Control, Light and Dual Time Control;
• Automatic temperature compensation and accumulated function of charge and discharge KWH;
• Double USB output 5V/2A;
• Perfect electronic protections.

System Connection

Order of Connection:

1. Connected with Battery first;
2. Connected with Load;
3. Connected with Solar Panel.

NOTE:

1. This series is a positive ground controller. Any positive connection of Solar Panel, Load or Battery can be earth grounded.
2. The fuse should be installed as close to battery as possible, the suggested distance is about 150mm;
3. finverter or other load with big start current is necessary in system, please connect it with Battery, not solar controller;
4. When disconnecting the system, the order will be reversed.

Operation

LCD Symbol

Voltage

Button Function

interface.
Parameter Setting| In the settable interface, long press button”+”into setting, and then short press “+”or”-“to set parameter, long  press button”+”to save and exit.
(Long press button”—”to cancel the parameter and back to last setting)
Factory Reset| Long Press button”+”5s in the interface of Ambient Temperature.

Browse Interface

NOTE:

1. After connected with Battery, LCD will go into an interface that automatically recognizes the battery voltage level,3 seconds later, it will enter to the main interface of LCD;
2. Equalizing charge will be after every 90 times Floating charge, or one charge in three months;
3. Under the interface of Accumulated KWH, long press button “+”to clear the value;
4. When no operation 30s, the interface will be back to main interface, and back-light will be turned off.

Battery Types
Under the interface of battery types, long press button”+”into the type setting, then short press button”+”-” to choose battery type, and then long press “+”again to save and exit.

Battery voltage automatic identification range

LiFePO4
3.2V-4| LiFePO4
3.2V-5| LiCoMnNi02
3.7V-3| LiCoMnNiO2
3.7V-4
12V System| ≤17.6V| ≤18V| ≤22.5V| ≤15.9V| ≤21.2V
24V System| ≤29.9V| ≤30.4V| ≤38V| ≤26.9V| ≤35.8V
36V System| ≤42.1V| ≤42.8V| ≤53.5V| ≤37.8V| ≤50.4V
48V System| >42.1V| >42.8V| >53.5V| >37.8V| >50.4V

Control parameters of Lead-acid battery

59.2V
Charging time of Absorption/Equalizing| 2 Hours
Lead-Acid Battery Types| SLD / GEL / FLD
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Battery Voltage Level| 12v| 24v| 36v| 48v
Low Voltage Disconnection| 10.7v| 21.4v| 32.1v| 42.8v
Low Voltage Re-connection| 12.6v| 25.2v| 37.8v| 50.4v
Load Over-Voltage Disconnection| 16v| 32v| 48v| 64v
Load Over-Voltage Re-connection| 15.5v| 31v| 46.5v| 62v

Control parameters of Lithium battery

74V
Load Over-Voltage Re-connection| 18V| 36V| 54V| 72V| 18V| 36V| 54V| 72V

Load Working Modes
Under the load mode setting interface, long press button “+”, when Timer 1 or Timer 2 begin flashing, short press button”+”or”-“to set parameter, then long press button “+’to save and exit.

lcon| Load Working Mode Timer 1| lcon| Load Working Mode Timer 2
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100| Reverse light control mode ( The load stops working at  dark and working at dawn )| 200| Light control & Dual period mode is not activated,  unable to enter the setting
101h˜115h| Light control & dual time mode: the load is   automatically turned on when it is dark, and it is   automatically turned off when it is dawn. The 1h- 15  on this page is used to setting the working time  of the  load after dark| 201h˜215h| After activating the light control & Dual period   mode, you can enter this page to set 1H ~ 15h to   control the working hours of the load before  dawn
116| Light control mode| 117| Load 24 hours

Protections

• Solar Panel Reverse-Polarity: If the solar panel is connected with controller in reversed polarity, will not be damaged and will work as normal when correctly connected. controller
• Battery Reverse-Polarity: If the battery is connected with controller in reversed polarity (solar controller is not connected with solar panel), controller will not be damaged and will work as normal when correctly connected.
• Battery Reverse-Discharge: Controller is able to protect battery from reversed discharging to solar panel at night.
• Over-Heating Protection: Once the internal temperature is detected to be higher than a certain value by the controller, it will stop charging the battery and then recharging the battery automatically after the temperature drop to a certain value.
• Battery Over-Current: Controller will stop charging when excess current is detected from the solar panel, and recharging automatically after 2 min.
• Load Over-Load: The load will be turned off when the output current of load exceeds its rated current for a while, and turned on automatically after 2 min.
• Load Short-Circuit: Controller will be in protection state when the load is short circuit, and recharging automatically after 2 min
• Battery Low-Voltage: Controller will turn off the load when the battery voltage is lower than the value preset for low-voltage disconnection, and turn on the load when the battery voltage reaches the value preset for low-voltage re- connection. The value for low-voltage disconnection and low-voltage re-connection can be set by users in a certain range.
• Battery Over-Voltage: Controller will turn off the load when the battery voltage is higher than the value preset for over-voltage protection, and turn on the load when the battery voltage is 1V lower than the value preset for over- voltage protection.
• Lightning Protection: The lightning protection function of controller is limited and it is recommended to install devices for lightning protection on the input side to increase system reliability.

Troubleshooting

equipment.
E03| Load Short.Circutt
E04| Load Over-Voltage
E05| Solar Panel Over-Current| Check the power of solar panel or reduce the solar panel.

Technical Specification

| 100W| 100W| 180W| 200W
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Mode I| SUPA-100W| SUPA-100W| SUPA-180W| SUPA-200W
Peak power Pm(W)| 100±3%| 100±3%| 180±3%| 200±3%
Open circuit voltage Voc(V)| 22.| 22.| 22.| 22.
Max. power voltage Vmp(V)| 18| 18| 18| 18
Max. power current Imp(A)| 5.56±3%| 5.56±3%| 9.7±3%| 11.11±3%
Short circuit current Isc(A)| 6.2±3%| 6.2±3%| 11±3%| 13.2±3%
Solar sells Efficiency| 22.%| 22.%| 22.%| 22.%
Dimensions(LWH)/Weight(Kgs)| 105051035mm/7.3kg| 54053567mm/10kg| 1505675mm/5.5kg| 1500670*35mm/14kg
Cable/cable connecdtor Model| 2.5 flat photovoltaic line / MC4| 2.5 flat photovoltaic line / MC4| 2.5 flat photovoltaic line / MC4| 2.5 flat photovoltaic line / MC4
STC| Irradiance:1000W/m2,
Cell temperatuer:25°C,AM:1.5| Irradiance:1000W/m2,
Cell temperatuer:25°C,AM:1.5| Irradiance:1000W/m2,
Cell temperatuer:25°C,AM:1.5| Irradiance:1000W/m2,
Cell temperatuer:25°C,AM:1.5
Max.static load,front(e,g.,sonw/wind)| 2400Pa| 2400Pa| 2400Pa| 2400Pa
Max.static load,back(e,g.,sonw/wind)| 2400Pa| 2400Pa| 2400Pa| 2400Pa
Max.system voltage(V)| 600V DC| 600V DC| 600V DC| 600V DC
Application Classy| Class A| Class A| Class A| Class A
Coefficient current TK| 0.1 %/°C| 0.1 %/°C| 0.1 %/°C| 0.1 %/°C
Coefficient voltage TK| -0.37%/°C| -0.37%/°C| -0.37%/°C| -0.37%/°C
Coefficient power TK| -0.45%/°C| -0.45%/°C| -0.45%/°C| -0.45%/°C

Warning:
This module will generate electricity when exposed to light. Follow all applicable electrical safety precautions.
Only qualified personnel should perform installation or maintenance work on these modules.
Be careful of dangerously high DC voltages when connecting modules, do not damage or scratch the back of the module, and follow the battery manufacturer’s recommendations.

After-Sales Service

• This product has a limited warranty. The warranty covers defects in workmanship and materials and does not cover damage from normal wear and tear, alteration, misuse, neglect, accident or service by anyone.
• The warranty does not cover solar panels that have deteriorated, damaged or destroyed due to improper use and their intended purpose, in particular contrary to the operating instructions; due to improper maintenance; improper  intervention by the customer or third parties or any other modification.

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