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In the next three pictures, two will be of the shunt that fits on the BattleBorn Batteries, and the other picture is of the SOK shunt. Also, the Battle Born Batteries’s are charging faster when there’s sun. The battleborn’s are also a couple of years older. Also, the battleborn bank is 200 amp...

As far as I can tell the fuse didn’t blow, just turned a bit darker - like a little burned singe. at least that’s the way it looks to me, it’s not broken anywhere. Thanks

Checked all the plugs and connections and they’re fine. As far as the positive bus bar being cracked, I just put red tape around it to indicate that it’s positive. The bus bars are rated at 250 amps. I have 6.2 kW of solar. Eight panels at 320 W and two strings paralleled. Another eight panels...

The 150 W panels are wired to make 24 V. Right now my charge controller says my batteries are at 90+ SOC. And the voltage is at 26.60 I find it strange that this reads only after dark, as during the day the SOC is around 50? I have a lot to learn. ?

Yes, the electrician understood that I’m sure. That’s why I have 6/3 gauge wire connected from inverter to panel ground/neutral. I just meant I don’t understand diagrams.

Lots of good information here, I’m trying to upgrade all my ANL fuses. I use Will Prowses Crimper, these aren’t coming loose! I use copper lugs. The bus bars are from blue sea 250 amp. Everything‘s inside so there’s no corrosion issues.

The electrician hooked it up, so I know there was the hot, the neutral and the ground wire going to the 50 amp breakers! 6/3 wire gage. Turns out after talking to Battle Born Batteries, that I had the wrong fuse, so that may have contributed to the inverter not working now. Whatever you do...

There are two shunts, one off the SOK batteries and one off of the Battle Born Batteries. The Battle Born Batteries has the VE dongle that would report the temperature. SOK has none. The temperature shows up in the VictronConnect app. On the charge controllers & the inverter. The SOK batteries...

I don’t know how it could not be hooked up right, I sent pictures to Battle Born Batteries and they told me it was hooked up properly?

The same cables as your arrows show. If I measure between the two red squares, it’s 26.38 My original reading was from one end of the lower far right are to the far upper left of the battery bank.

The inverter is a 3000/24 V 70 amp

Can you give me what the acronym of SCC is? ?

Then what’s the difference having series/parallel then? I thought the whole reason was to make the panels work together. Now both strings are 24 V.

As a newbie I’m concerned about wiring my batteries, solar charge controller and inverter without causing massive sparks! I’ve heard that if you start by hooking up the positives to the batteries when putting together, you will have less sparks and when taking apart you should start by the...

I need to find the right size bus bar for my system. I will have two strings of solar, one string of three panels 300 W at 24 V. Another string of four panels 320 W at 24V connected to a combiner box lead to a Victron 150/85 charge controller. I will have four 150w panels =600 W wired at 24 V in...

Victron Energy VE.Bus Smart dongle is two products in one: bluetooth accessory and Voltage, Temperature-sense device The bluetooth accessory for Victron Energy range of inverter/chargers: Multis, MultiPlusses, MultiPlus-ll, MultiGrid, MultiGrid-II, Victron Energy Quattros, and Phoenix Inverters...

I’ll try and change the fuse on the SOK batteries Sat, as it’s the first time I’ve tried this kind of fuse. That way I can find out whether it’s part of the problem or not. And I really don’t know if fuses have different resistance factors! ?

The VictronConnect app has a few things to look at. The first photo shows all my components and the second photo shows the smart BMV-712

Thanks anyway. Some things just don’t make sense. ? Teaching isn’t easy. I’ve always done better with somebody showing me versus the written word.

This is the most promising tech I’ve seen for charging my batteries when there’s no sun.

So now that it’s morning again, I’ll take a different approach to this problem. Since I believe the inverter is bonded to the main panel ground, the question is, how do I ground the charge controllers? Do I wire them down to the negative bus bar, because right now I have them wired to a separate...

It doesn’t matter if I do the test with the CSL or without it, the inverter works! This is what I did yesterday: Changed out some wire, and all the fuses and the battery switch. Somewhere along the positive line, there’s some kind of resistance. I’ve even replace some wire, and it makes no...

Thanks for replying, this stuff seems pretty mysterious once you start digging in to it. Glad I found this forum, I believe everybody should have the opportunity to go off grid if they want. Thanks ??

Update: looks like the inverter isn’t the problem, as it says, low voltage battery on the red light. Message from battleborn. I connected with a group of Senior Techs that I worked with, and they shared that if a 48v 5000 Quattro was “fried” it wouldn’t work at all. A good thing with Victron...

Update: I put in a different charge controller and now I can recognize the Victron inverter? ? Not sure what was going on, but it seems to be working now. Now for the new problem, the old Victron charge controller won’t recognize the victron connect software, where it did before? Is there some...

OK. I remember watching how many Watts and that’s why I said 1800. Didn’t think about how much current. I really don’t want to push anything until I get all my proper fuses. Hopefully they’ll arrive within a week or so. I still think the short wires have some issues, as when I turned on the...

Wow! Thanks for all your help – looks like you’ve been digging quite a bit. I’ll have to do some investigation today. This site has been a godsend! I wish I could help people too, but I still have a lot to learn.

They don’t seem to sell anything higher than that? I definitely like to find something better?

Thanks, but I don’t know where to find these charts. Or really how to read them. Wish somebody made an app on your phone for this. Plus battle born batteries told me to try 300 amp fuse. My inverter is a 300 amp fuse.