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Hello all, I finished installing the heavier gauge wire for the solar panel charging as well as installing the MIDI fuse holders. I also added terminals blocks to clean up the wiring on the battery terminals themselves. Next step is to run some test on the system. attached are some pictures...

The inverter was being used around 9:30 am or so and was after a draining on the batteries overnight running lights, stereo, refrigerator etc.. so battery bank was down to about 71% capacity on the meter. The wire length from battery to solar controller is around 3ft. I will peal back the...

Hello, This is my first boat that has a solar charger and an Inverter setup. I started using the boat in May of this year. The Inverter is original from 2000 and the Solar Panels have probably been on the boat for 10 years or so but not 100%. Anyway this weekend when we had a heavy load on...

Hedges, The boat is set up for 12V. The house side uses 6V batteries tied together to produce 12V. Their is a bank of four 6V batteries on the port side and another two on the starboard side all. The starting battery is a single 12V on the starboard side. From all of the feed back and...

Attached are the pictures showing the fuse before it burned up. This is also before I replaced the batteries. The new batteries only had the single threaded post so I had to move the one wire in this picture that was on the other post to the stud with all of the others. Is there any issues...

Yes they have the battery terminals very busy in the set up. The buses sound like a good plan to clean it. That is on my list.

Thanks for the responses. Great to find a spot with knowledge of these systems. I am on the boat now so attached are some photos. One thing to note is I replaced the batteries in the boat probably 3 or 4 weeks ago. I do not remember where the fuse holder was placed exactly before I undid...

Everything on the Solar setup was existing. The fuse holder was a Blue Seas brand waterproof inline fuse holder. The same fuse holder was used for the house/inverter battery bank and the starting battery. The starting battery fuse shows no corrosion. As I mentioned in an earlier thread I...