Timeline for How to store/use energy that could be generated from a solar cell duing the off stage of a buck converter?
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 5:36 | comment | added | Neil_UK | A 'traditional' buck converter tends to include the input capacitor, so it draws a steady current. The stray inductance of the input capacitor is a significant factor in the design of the overall buck. | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 1:01 | vote | accept | user182015 | ||
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 0:56 | comment | added | John D | @C_Elegans Under certain conditions it MIGHT hurt to put an inductor between the panel and the power supply, see the Middlebrook criterion: ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/7104 | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 0:51 | comment | added | C_Elegans | Buck converters usually have at least a little smoothing on the input, otherwise they would radiate like crazy. It will probably work fine without a huge filter, but it wouldn't hurt to add an inductor between the panel and the power supply | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 0:42 | comment | added | user182015 | So if a were to use a traditional buck converter without the low pass filter on the input, would it be less than optimal for use with a solar cell since neither the high or low state of the load is at the maximum power point (it's somewhere in between)? | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 0:32 | history | answered | C_Elegans | CC BY-SA 4.0 |