Laying out the wiring for my pending system on paper and would appreciate some input.
My battery bank will be two Concorde PVX1040T 12V 104ah in parallel. Some day I will go with 6v golf carts that have higher amp hour but I have the Concordes now and do not cherish the idea of going with 24v down the road due to costs. I live off the grid and my power needs are in the neighborhood of 2 amps for about 4 hrs a day. I am going to stage my solar install for cost and seasonal reasons. I live in Alaska so solar in the spring. For now I will charge the batts using an AC charger (Iota DLS 45) via my gene.
Now my question, I would like to bring the batts to a busbar each (1" x 1/4" × 7 copper) for negative and positive. The positive fused at the batt. The bus bars would be about 3.5' from the batts and I would make the run using 2/0, equal lengths for both pos/neg. I am thinking of putting the chargers (ac, solar) on the busbars and not directly on the batts. Appropriate fusing of course. Any reason not to do this? If/when I add an inverter can I add it to the busbar or am I better served going to the batts?
Thanks and have a good one
My battery bank will be two Concorde PVX1040T 12V 104ah in parallel. Some day I will go with 6v golf carts that have higher amp hour but I have the Concordes now and do not cherish the idea of going with 24v down the road due to costs. I live off the grid and my power needs are in the neighborhood of 2 amps for about 4 hrs a day. I am going to stage my solar install for cost and seasonal reasons. I live in Alaska so solar in the spring. For now I will charge the batts using an AC charger (Iota DLS 45) via my gene.
Now my question, I would like to bring the batts to a busbar each (1" x 1/4" × 7 copper) for negative and positive. The positive fused at the batt. The bus bars would be about 3.5' from the batts and I would make the run using 2/0, equal lengths for both pos/neg. I am thinking of putting the chargers (ac, solar) on the busbars and not directly on the batts. Appropriate fusing of course. Any reason not to do this? If/when I add an inverter can I add it to the busbar or am I better served going to the batts?
Thanks and have a good one
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