LiFePo4 - what components required?
Premise: certainly solar is fine but most of my camping is in the shade or in low solar areas so no solar. And there are more no solar reasons too. Intent is to have a battery bank of 4S-8P CALB...
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Thanks for your all your replies.
Pianotuna...you are "the man" to shake all this out. Thanks for your interest.
With a clean sheet of paper and from scratch, I'm trying to identify all the required electrical components required to create a "heavy duty charging system" as per Matthew_B did in his 2010 RV.NET post. However my application differs as the truck will be gas and all camper batteries will be LiFEPO4 chemistry. http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23601503.cfm
My hope is be able to go 4-6 days on batteries (except for air conditioning). 6 gallon water heater, 7.0 cft fridge with Danfoss compressor, 1000/1800 watt convection microwave, coffee maker, water pump, LED lights,2 Fantastic fans, TV, radio, computer, etc. I think I would want at least a 2500 watt inverter.
Roadtrek RV is making the LiFEPO4 chemistry work and I think they do use a 48 volt inverter. I do understand it would require a battery management system such as the Orion JR unit like this: http://www.orionbms.com/products/orion-bms-jr/
Not being "Edison minded", I don't know what component is right or wrong nor can I conceive what the component connection "flow chart" looks like as per what gets wired to what. How does the system "union or gate" both 110V AC or alternator amperage?
Perhaps this will take a Double-E to spec out components?
Pianotuna...you are "the man" to shake all this out. Thanks for your interest.
With a clean sheet of paper and from scratch, I'm trying to identify all the required electrical components required to create a "heavy duty charging system" as per Matthew_B did in his 2010 RV.NET post. However my application differs as the truck will be gas and all camper batteries will be LiFEPO4 chemistry. http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/23601503.cfm
My hope is be able to go 4-6 days on batteries (except for air conditioning). 6 gallon water heater, 7.0 cft fridge with Danfoss compressor, 1000/1800 watt convection microwave, coffee maker, water pump, LED lights,2 Fantastic fans, TV, radio, computer, etc. I think I would want at least a 2500 watt inverter.
Roadtrek RV is making the LiFEPO4 chemistry work and I think they do use a 48 volt inverter. I do understand it would require a battery management system such as the Orion JR unit like this: http://www.orionbms.com/products/orion-bms-jr/
Not being "Edison minded", I don't know what component is right or wrong nor can I conceive what the component connection "flow chart" looks like as per what gets wired to what. How does the system "union or gate" both 110V AC or alternator amperage?
Perhaps this will take a Double-E to spec out components?
