Bus Bars - 150A rated ok?
Have 500AH battery (LIFePO4) and a 3000 watt Samlex inverter. Wiring is all going through bus bars. I made an order to get new ones, received Blue Seas 4 post rated at 150 amps. I thought I had ordere...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Let me put it this way. 3,000 watt inverter draws close to 300 amps perhaps a tad more at startup but at full load it will be sucking roughly 300 amps (Divide by 10.. note it is not accurate at thousands of watts but it's close enough for estimating load) My 2000 watt can hit 220 amps.
I can see what going on with my system and it might not be professional equipment but for forum purpose probably close enough. I see what what my LFP batteries are doing off their own display from the CPU and can see what the Magnum Inverter is showing from the remote display.
So my question is do you figure wattage draw from the batteries (during the load draw) or from Inverter (during the load draw)? In the image below are 3 actual samples of 2,800+ wattage draws figured from the Magnum remote display, less if figuring from the LFP display (voltage x amps = wattage). Which makes senses being the 12v to 120v inverting.
