Recent content by flammafeuer

I haven't found the answer yet, but I bought a dolly platform/cart to put the batteries on, in the meantime, and that is working well around my house, but when I get to my land, where I also need it to be a little but mobile (move 200+ lbs a several feet at a time, maybe a few times a day), I...

Anyone find or develop a (semi-)mobile solution for rack batteries, that is "affordable" (<= $125)? I'm struggling to find an affordable solution for storing my server rack batteries. I tried out a server rack in my budget, which advertised that it could handle the weight of my two Aolithium...

Ok, I'm hearing, I think, that you think that adding in disconnects adds in potential problems, and I guess I could see that.

There more I assembly up my Aolithium test setup (before I send it to its off-grid location), the more I want disconnects or breakers in place so that I can rewire things without shutting down everything. Right now, I just have a disconnect between the battery and a bus bar. Everything else is...

I'm getting nervous about the exposed metal in my test setup. the most egregious things are the exposed 5/16" studs on my inverter. Most other things are covered ok. I can't seem to find any good off the shelf solutions for that. Are there covers that go over studs and maybe over the lugs a...

I'm pretty sure I have a network cable crimper somewhere. That said, the bluetooth SmartSolar 150/35 just seems to have the VE.direct plugin (which I do not have), and I don't see a network cable jack. I just in the past 30 minutes wired in the inverter, which is a WZRELB 3kW (not the wall...

I have the batteries in parallel with the parallel cables. The documentation mentions a bus bar, but I frankly can't understand the chingrish manual well in that regard, and I think it is about what is connecting the cells inside. I don't have any communication going to the Victron charge...

I'm looking to use EMT on the ground to support some panels. I tried to find this product, but just found nail straps, which didn't seem like the right thing. Do you have a link?

I have 2 Aolithium rack batteries, and got my Victron 150/35 connected in and doing some light solar charging, and noticed a couple of things, raising a couple of questions: Should I expect the batteries to eventually match charge levels? The master/top battery is charging faster than the...

I bought some lugs and a tool, so we'll see how it goes first

That is the peep hole for ensuring the lug is on correctly, for that kind of lug. You don't feel like drilling out loses you important surface area for current?

I've already seen recommendations not to drill the terminal out to fit the bolt (on my disconnect and on t he bus bar). I'm not sure that I have the tools to cut this cable and put a new lug on it, and I don't have 3/8" lugs for 4 AWG cable, yet. Are there other coupling suggestions to get from...

Thanks for all of the responses! It's my first T Class fuse, and wasn't sure what to expect, and also whether tightening it down enough to align the contact surfaces would break something.

I just got in a holder and class T fuse, separately ordered, and the Class T fuse doesn't lay flat on the holder. I haven't been able to figure out, yet, which one of these is "off", but, since it is the same in any orientation, roughly, then I'd say it is just one of them. What would you do? I...

Thanks. I'm using a 6AWG for the controller to bus bar (used a Blue Seas diagram to select). So, if I have 64V regularly hitting a fuse apparently rated for 58V, what happens? Does its performance degrade over time?