I want to make a low-cost solar power regulator designed for a small system that has a 150W solar panel and 150W wind generator to charge up 1 (or possibly 2) deep cell solar batteries. I would like to have it step up the voltage during cloudy/calm wind days, and step down for the sunny/windy conditions.
It would help to see a good schematic design and also any recommendations regarding the best way to automatically step up/down in an efficient and cost-effective way.
That has me confused then because I just wanted to take the small voltage coming in, and step it up to say 14.3 volts and whatever increase it took to get to 14.3V would reduce respectively for the Amps so that the total Watts from the wind turbine would be the same.
So I don't see why simple voltage conversion would cause any extra forces.