Morningstar's ProStar is the world's leadinf mid-range soalr controller for both professional and consumer applications. This second generation ProStar:
- Adds new features and protections using highly advanced technology
- Provides longer battery life and imporved system performance
- Sets new standards for reliability and self-diagnostics.
Standard Features:
- Versions available: 15 or 30 amp,12/24 or 48 Volt negative or positive ground
- Estimated 15 year life
- PWM series battery charging (not shunt)
- 3-position battery select: gel sealed or flooded
- Very accurate control and management
- Jumper to eliminate telecom noise
- Parallel for upto 300 amps
- Temperature compensation
- Tropicalizations: conformal coating, stainless steel fasteners and anodized aluminium heat sink
- No switching or measurement in the grounded leg
- 100% solid state
- Very low voltage drops
- Current compensated low voltage disconnect (LVD)
- LED's indicate battery status and faults
- Capable of 25% overloads
- Remote battery voltage sense terminals
Electronic Protections:
- Short circuit - solar and load
- Overload - solar and load
- Reverse polarity
- Reverse current at night
- High voltage disconnect
- High temperature disconnect
- Lightning and transient surge protection
- Loads protected from voltage spikes
- Automatic recovery with all protections
Prostar Options:
- Digital meter
- Highly accurate voltage and current display
- Low self-consumption (1 mA)
- Includes manual disconnect button
- Displays 5 different protection functions and disconnect conditions
- Self-diagnostics (self-test) provides a comprehensive test of the ProStar -
- Display 9 different controller status parameters, including temperature
- Displays detected faults
- Positive ground
- Remote Temperature probe
| ProStar Versions |
| |
PS-15 |
PS-30 |
PS15M-48V |
| Rated Solar Current |
15A |
30A |
15A |
| Rated Load Current |
15A |
30A |
15A |
| System Voltage |
12/24V |
12/24V |
48V |
| Options: |
| Digital Meter |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Positive Ground |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Remote Temp. Probe |
Standard |
yes |
yes |
| Battery Voltage Setpoints* |
| |
Gel |
Sealed |
Flooded |
| Regulation Voltage |
14.0 |
14.15 |
14.4 |
| Remote Temp. Probe |
Standard |
yes |
yes |
| Float |
13.7 |
13.7 |
13.7 |
| Equalization |
n/a |
14.35 |
14.9/15.1 |
| Load Disconnect |
11.4 |
11.4 |
11.4 |
| Load Reconnect |
12.6 |
12.6 |
12.6 |
| Note: values are for 12V. Use 2X for 24V and 4X for 48V |
| Electrical Specifications |
| |
12V |
24V |
48V |
| Temp. Comp. 9mV/oC* |
- 30mV |
- 60mV |
- 120mV |
| Accuracy |
40mV |
60mV |
80mV |
| Min. Voltage to operate |
8V |
8V |
15V |
| Self-consumption |
22mA |
25mA |
28mA |
| LVD current coefficient** |
- 20mV |
- 40mV |
- 80mV |
| Charge algorithm |
PWM, constant voltage |
| Operating temperature |
- 40oC to + 60oC |
| Digital Display: |
| Operating Temperature |
- 30oC to + 85oC |
| Voltage Accuracy |
0.5% |
| Current Accuracy |
2.0% |
| Self-consumption |
1mA |
| Optimized battery |
Full charge |
| charging (4 stages) |
PWM regulation
Float
Equalize |
* 25oC reference
** per amp of load |
