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So in terms of adding my 48v to 24v dc to dc inverter.. or.. converter.. is that wired up to the distributor as well? Or would that come directly off the battery? Unsure where that goes now in this setup so I can power (charge) my river 2 pro 768wh unit.

So that means a 48v pack that is 56v max is too much for those? I would rather go with better fuses.. I suspect they seldom if ever blow anyway. But definitely want something that isnt going to blow/trip when my battery is charged up to 50+v.

So these LEV60 cells claim up to 600a of peak output (or input?) I think. It's been a damn long time since my electronic class in HS, so I cant remember if you have 16 of them if that multiples, stays the same or what lol. But assuming I will be building a 2nd one soon (have everything but the...

Love it! Yah.. in my case they are in a ventilated area so should be fine. But I have a few fans I can wire up if need be. Eventually the goal is to move all this in to a garage and set up whole house storage/etc. But for now its just starting out. Build it little by little.. given the costs of...

That is basically what I am doing, but horizontal as my shelf where it will go isn't tall enough between shelfs for it to fit vertical and definitely not able to be mounted. It's temporary too.. few months or so that's about it. Then I plan on moving it to a portable stand of some sort. The...

So.. is that BAD if they spark.. is it yet another thing we DIYers should know how to do.. e.g. pre-charge resistor thingy? Or is that just some knowledge some pick up along the way but it wont affect anything? I am guessing the spark is IN the 48/3000 unit itself.. or is it at the switch.. any...

So an odd slightly off topic but in line with my wiring questions.. when I connect my battery (which is charged to 56.3v right now) pos/neg to the victron (via distributor).. I assume that it wont spark/etc cause I'll have that switch in line and turned off. But once I flip it on.. does the...

Those little wires though look like they power something like the cerbo OR they are the small wire that comes with the Distributor? I think I saw one in mine.. and I thought I saw some "hack" to enable the LEDs or something. In fact I bought something from amazon per a video that shows how you...

OK good to know and thanks for link. Other than that, wiring seems correct?

Man.. I tell you what.. when setting up a DIY setup like this, there are all sorts of extra costs nobody mentions. LOL. So, given that my one 48v bank is 100a BMS, would a 100a NH be enough? I'd assume I would put that on the pos terminal right before the end of the Distributor (where you have...

Oh this is a cool setup thank you for sharing. Ok I think I am getting the general idea. So on the POS side I see you have the switch, is there a fuse ALSO (not shown) going to the battery (and is it on pos or neg side.. shouldnt matter I dont think)? In the pic you have the Victron battery...

Interesting. OK. Well I did get the 500a battery monitor which I thought goes between the Distributor and battery NEG cable to give me details on the one 48v battery bank I have. I don't know if there is some way to tie in that China BMS to the Victron app, doubt it. So I got the distributor vs...

How would that work if you have 2 or 3 different battery setups though? Or can you not mix different AH/WH 48v battery banks using the Distributor? I assumed part of the point of the 4 posts were to handle multiple power sources, e.g. MPTT/solar, multiple batteries, etc.. and that the end (if...

Oh very cool.. I didn't see this or missed it! So up to around 15 feet in length I could handle 2AWG. So the one thing I can't seem to figure out is where I attach cables from inverter to the distributor. I assume the inverter goes on the end +/- and the battery attaches to one of the 4 ports...

So I read all the links that popped up regarding this and they are all for 12v and couple for 24v which if I read correctly from other posts 12v uses much thicker wire than 24v and 48v is even smaller. However, I want to be sure before I finish my battery and wire everything up. I have the...