williamolyolson
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The Canvas:
It's old and rough and mostly gutted by its previous owners, and I probably paid too much for it, but what can I say. I've had some kind of strange obsession with these little RVs for a long time and finally got my hands on one.
The Plan:
2x 8s2p 24v SAB 55ah Lifepo4 from BHu. Each rocking a 100a BMS from BHu. Running parallel for a total of 24v @ ~200a deliverable.
4x Newpowa 210w 24v solar panels roof mounted on a linear slide/tilt system so they can be pulled out over door side of the vehicle and become a solar awning.
Will be attempting to design room for a second set of 4 panels under the initial ones so when the top set is deployed in the "awning" position the second set is exposed and can perhaps be tilted up as well.
I still have yet to begin designing the slide/tilt mount system but I'll post drawings as soon as I have them.
I'll be using 2 Renogy Rover 40A MPPT SCCs for redundancy at first and to allow for the expansion to 8 panels if/when I get there.
So far I've acquired 1 Renogy SCC, 16 of the 32 total SAB 55ah batteries, 2 100a shunt power meters for power in/power out display, a few hand-fulls of other gizmos including some little digital voltage meters I'll use to keep an eye on battery health. Some voltage controlled relays, some SSRs, a few buck-boost converters for running some Rasberry Pi projects that will be integrated, and probably several other bits and pieces I'm not looking at right now.
Current Progress:
I've begun construction of the battery enclosure:
.25" black hdpe with 1.5" angle aluminum cut to 3" pieces, 3/16" pop rivets holding it all together.
It's approximately 13" x 25" by 12.5"deep
Should hold 32 of those 55Ah SABs with plenty of room for airflow.
Here's the first 16 I acquired doing some balancing to pass the time:
As soon as tomorrow(payday!) gets here I'll be ordering another 16 cells, the 2 BMS units and likely the solar panels, cables and the other SCC.
It's old and rough and mostly gutted by its previous owners, and I probably paid too much for it, but what can I say. I've had some kind of strange obsession with these little RVs for a long time and finally got my hands on one.
The Plan:
2x 8s2p 24v SAB 55ah Lifepo4 from BHu. Each rocking a 100a BMS from BHu. Running parallel for a total of 24v @ ~200a deliverable.
4x Newpowa 210w 24v solar panels roof mounted on a linear slide/tilt system so they can be pulled out over door side of the vehicle and become a solar awning.
Will be attempting to design room for a second set of 4 panels under the initial ones so when the top set is deployed in the "awning" position the second set is exposed and can perhaps be tilted up as well.
I still have yet to begin designing the slide/tilt mount system but I'll post drawings as soon as I have them.
I'll be using 2 Renogy Rover 40A MPPT SCCs for redundancy at first and to allow for the expansion to 8 panels if/when I get there.
So far I've acquired 1 Renogy SCC, 16 of the 32 total SAB 55ah batteries, 2 100a shunt power meters for power in/power out display, a few hand-fulls of other gizmos including some little digital voltage meters I'll use to keep an eye on battery health. Some voltage controlled relays, some SSRs, a few buck-boost converters for running some Rasberry Pi projects that will be integrated, and probably several other bits and pieces I'm not looking at right now.
Current Progress:
I've begun construction of the battery enclosure:
.25" black hdpe with 1.5" angle aluminum cut to 3" pieces, 3/16" pop rivets holding it all together.
It's approximately 13" x 25" by 12.5"deep
Should hold 32 of those 55Ah SABs with plenty of room for airflow.
Here's the first 16 I acquired doing some balancing to pass the time:
As soon as tomorrow(payday!) gets here I'll be ordering another 16 cells, the 2 BMS units and likely the solar panels, cables and the other SCC.
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