How many solar panels to recharge a power station
Enter the station's capacity and how many peak sun hours you expect, and get the number of panels to fill it in that window. Stations also cap how much solar they accept, so more panels past that limit do not help.
How this is worked out
- Panels = capacity Wh / (sun hours x panel W x (1 - loss)), rounded up.
- Loss and sun hours are typical or user-entered values, not measurements. Cloud, shade, tilt, temperature and a station's charge taper near full all make real recharges slower.
- The solar input limit comes from the maker's page for models marked verified. Voltage windows and series or parallel wiring are not checked here; see solar string sizing and the spec sheet.
- Bigger plans: solar array and battery sizing.