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So the wattage varies. It should help you understand if I say amps instead of watts. Again, you've already accidentally answered my question.

How many solar panels will realistically produce more than 15 watts in ideal conditions? How many will one? It seems you've unwittingly answered my question. Does this mean I cannot hook up more than two 12v panels in series? e.g. three would add up to ~36w etc.

I'm looking to hook up an mppt cc in parallel because I have other no-name panels and I don't want the efficiency of my Renogy solar panel to be possibly bottle-necked. I'm wondering how many solar panels I can hook up in parallel without realistically ever getting to 15 watts. I've never seen...

How many amps are pulled is irrelevant to how many amps can be produced, if the charger does in fact produce more amps than it consumes, which you didn't mention until just recently. An inability to gauge accurately whether a question has been sufficiently answered doesn't entail I lack reading...

We have an answer. It should follow then that if the continuous power output rating of the generator is high enough, then I should have no problem plugging in a charger with a higher amperage rating than the outlet is rated, e.g. plugging in a 30a charger when again the outlet is rated at 20 amps.

If the extra volts can't be converted to amps, then the extra volts are going to waste. How many amps the generator puts out, and my mistake not specifying 20 amps is the rated peak output, are irrelevant. The make and model of the generator are irrelevant. The only relevant thing here is how...

An mppt controller can't handle a/c power though, is this correct? Else, using an mppt controller to convert the 120v output to amps useful to charge a 12v battery sounds like a viable option, or no? Or perhaps some kind of reverse inverter to mppt controller?

I think a yes or no would be of use.

This is the same question.

Simply put, do some chargers convert volts to amps? That nothing you've said has been relevant to this question doesn't mean I'm going in circles.

Yes there is.

You lot keep repeating that the generator only produces the load as if this is relevant. It is not. Does the outlet support higher than 20a chargers, i.e. are some of the 120 volts converted to amps? They are indeed wasted otherwise if the voltage is not variable.

It just says 20 amps. * 12 volts = 240 watts. The question is does it utilize the 120 volts output to actually charge at 20 amps, or are those volts wasted? If so, it is safe to assume the outlet will support a higher than 20a charger.

Can my generator's 20a a/c outlet in fact likely support a higher than 20a charger?

Then the question is, is the charger likely converting between amps and volts? If it's limited to the number of amps output by the generator a/c outlet, then 120 or 110 volts - 12 volts of power is being wasted. If it's not limited by that, then I should get a charger with a higher amperage rating.

So hypothetically I could plug multiple 20a chargers into the power strip, plug that into the 20a outlet, and that's fine?

So the maximum amperage rating is only for the single outlet? So are you saying if I plug in a power strip, each outlet having its own maximum amperage rating, I can use more than 20 amps?

irrelevant. The question is how to utilize the voltage it should be capable of if it's rated at 950w. Are you implying the generator puts out about 8 amps, at 110 volts, and that therefore, if my charger could utilize all of this, then my battery would receive close to 950 watts? Then the...

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If there is a single 20a a/c port, then there is no way to plug more things in. The maximum amperage is relevant because implicit is a wealth of potential voltage the entire purpose of this thread is to ask how to utilize, using a single outlet. That the generator probably can't put out 20 amps...