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E1583: Get Ready to MAXIMIZE Your Solar Power with the BuddiPole PowerPro MPPT Controller

Jun 13, 20253 min
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Episode description

Check out the new Buddipole PowerPro MPPT Solar Charge Controller in this YouTube video! Designed for ham radio and off-grid enthusiasts, this innovative DC power management system features a 150W MPPT solar charger, automatic DC/battery switching, and a vibrant LCD display for real-time monitoring. Perfect for portable solar setups, it supports Lead Acid and Lithium-ion batteries with user-friendly controls. Learn how the PowerPro maximizes solar efficiency for your adventures!

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Speaker 1

This is our power Pro device, so kind of following in the footsteps of the Power Mini, which is our small solar controller, and our power.

Speaker 2

Plus device, which.

Speaker 1

Is a ups unueruptible power supply. It's battery backup and you're running a DC power supply into this unit. So this is our newest one which kind of combines both of those, and we've got a color display. Now went away from the membrane switch panel a little bit easier with the larger menu system to use a knob, so just we're just rotating and then selecting from there. This is an MPPT solar charger and also a battery charger,

so we're keeping that battery as a backup. We can we can run off the battery, or we can run off the DC power supply and then we can have a solar panel hooked up at the same time, which is which is charging the battery. So it has some options here for the output. Thirty five amps on the output, and you can put it in auto mode, which case it's gonna most of the times you.

Speaker 2

Got the DC power supply hooked up, it's going to pull from that.

Speaker 1

But you can also select just to pull from the battery from there, and then multiple battery chemistries as we go through the screens different types of system reporting how much currents coming in from the solar panel, for example, or from the from the power supply. How much are we outputting at that time USBC USB C on the output. That's correct, one out one outlet there for the USB.

We have the the alarms that we've had before. We have the over voltage cut off and under voltage cut off for the battery to protect the battery.

Speaker 2

So it's a very good battery charger.

Speaker 1

It's going to keep that battery peaked up at whatever we set that at, depending on the chemistry the battery prior.

Speaker 2

A lot of other features in there.

Speaker 1

The color screen is great and makes it easy in even in direct sunlight to see that screen. So yeah, that one is in production now, but it'll be mid July before we have it available on the Website's.

Speaker 2

The what's the biggest solar panel? You can add to it? One hundred and sixty watts, so it's the same as the power many right, Okay, Yeah, one hundred and sixty watts for the for the panel.

Speaker 1

Okay, that'll be in the neighborhood of three twenty nine to three forty nine.

Speaker 2

Retail. You've been working on that for a while, Chris, So I know. Yep, you're good. You're happy to see it come to fruition, So thanks man. Yeah, we've been using it for a bit and gosh, it works great.

Speaker 1

It's a good, really nice for in the shack or out in the field either way, in your RV, in your truck, anything like that. So you need multiple ones, So I need like four of them, right, yeah, by four of them.

Speaker 2

Yeah, you have to go one for one for home, one for the chat. Thanks man. Yeah,

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