Sorte Sorte: Solar Lab

Sorte Sorte: Solar Lab turns "a 200 W panel" into an honest number of watt-hours at your battery and outlets. Your whole system lives on one live schematic: panel, charge controller, battery, inverter and loads, with energy flowing down the wires and every loss written on the cable where it happens. Tap any component and it opens into its own lab. Everything runs offline with real solar formulas and no location services. BUILD YOUR FIRST RIG The first launch is hands-on. Drag the panel until it faces the sun, run the cable from the panel to the battery, turn the inverter's efficiency knob and plug in the things you use. The Wh number updates at every step, and what you build becomes your bench. ARRAY LAB • Peak sun hours for nine U.S. climate regions, month by month • A sky dome with the month's sun path — drag the sun to see the watts at that moment • Tilt, facing, latitude and air temperature, with the best tilt for the month and the year • Loss waterfall: heat, dust, shading, wiring, mismatch and aging, each as its own step • Tilt Gauge: lay your iPhone on the panel frame to read the real angle CHARGE CONTROLLER LAB The panel's power curve with both operating points on it. MPPT rides the knee; PWM is pinned to battery voltage. See exactly how many watts each one keeps for your string. BATTERY LAB • LiFePO4, AGM or flooded, with usable capacity and cold-charging limits • Three-day state of charge for clear, mixed and overcast weather • Night Run: sunset to sunrise on a full bank, appliance by appliance INVERTER LAB An instrument front panel with rotary knobs for rating, efficiency, idle draw and surge. • 12, 24 or 48 V bank and 120 or 230 V outlets • Efficiency curve with the sweet spot and a probe for any load • Loss Matrix: three bank voltages by six load levels, battery amps and cable loss in each cell • Battery cable sizing in AWG or mm², voltage drop and fuse size LOADS LAB Hold an appliance token and drop it on the scale. The beam tips toward harvest or load. • 16 typical appliances, AC or DC, duty cycle, start surge and time of day • 24-hour harvest vs draw, Surge Test and a shake-for-a-cloud pass HELIO An on-device lab notebook. Ask about sun hours, tilt, MPPT vs PWM, idle draw, wire size or winter, or type a calculation such as "48V 1500W amps". Answers come with worked math, can be read aloud and asked by voice. No data is collected and nothing leaves your device. LOGBOOK • Commission a rig and get a riveted nameplate with its daily numbers • Log what your charge controller reported and calibrate the rig from real readings • Printable Spec Sheet, side-by-side rig compare and a rig photo • Field Meter for on-site volts-times-amps checks • Lab ranks, badges, two quizzes and a roadmap you can vote on "Sorte" means luck in Portuguese, but nothing here is left to chance — every number is computed. Results are planning estimates from long-term regional sun data, not an electrical design; have a licensed electrician connect anything to home wiring.