Howdy folks. Great to be here.
I'm building a 2 x 100ah 12v battery system for a boat.
I have sourced just about every component EXCEPT a nice battery post to attach to the top of my 2 battery boxes (I also still have to figure out the best waterproof box and how to keep the battery from...
Temco TH0006 from Amazon.
Marine tinned copper 2g wire.
Heavy duty tinned copper lugs from bestboatwire.
The 2g dies were too small, this is done once with the 1g die bottomed out. Ideally the corners would be sharp, but is this acceptable? Manual photo is from the crimper manual. I read on...
I'm planning a day/small cruising sailboat battery install with 2x 100ah 12v LIFEPO4 batteries. I believe that I don't need a lead-acid battery whatsoever since the LIFEPO4 can handle the cranking and it simplifies things. My issue is that if I use one battery for "house" and one for "starting"...
I hooked up my Chargery 8T BMS with 1.2A of balancing to a 4s series of 280ah xuba batteries which were within 5 or 6 mV out of the box. I charged with a victron ip67 12/13 charger at 4a for a day and found over 300mV difference between cells! Obviously I either have 2 bad cells or I need to do...