Morningstar ProStar charge controller

Morningstar’s ProStar™ is the world’s leading mid-range solar controller for both professional and consumer applications.

Product features

• Versions available: 15 or 30 A 12/24 V, or 15 A 48 V
• Estimated 15 year life
• PWM series battery charging
• Temperature compensation
• 3-position battery select: gel, sealed or flooded
• Very accurate control and measurement
• Jumper to eliminate telecom noise
• Parallel for up to 300 A
• Tropicalisation: conformal coating, stainless steel fasteners and anodised aluminum heat sink
• No switching or measurement in the grounded leg
• 100 % solid state
• Very low voltage drops
• Current compensated Low Voltage Disconnect (LVD)
• LEDs indicate battery status and faults
• Capable of 25 % overloads
• Remote battery voltage sense terminals

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™
  • Displays 9 different controller status parameters, including temperature
  • Displays detected faults
• Positive ground
• Remote temperature probe

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