Best way to connect single DC appliance to my battery bank?

[NRed]

Hi all, we recently moved into an off-grid cabin and are very new to all this! This forum has saved us a lot of headaches.

Now that winter is here we have started turning off our inverter at night to save on battery. We could turn off the inverter much earlier at night and turn it on later in the morning if we had our Starlink setup on DC.

I bought the XTAR-Link EL6 as an all-in-one DC conversion for our Starlink setup which can be connected to a 12v or 24v battery bank. My battery bank consists of 4x 12v 200Ah batteries in 2s2p for a 24v system. Reading other threads here, it seems like the best way of connecting everything would be to use busbars (we don't have any) and install a 24v fuse box off of the busbar to connect the XTAR device to. Is this correct?

I'd like to avoid changing our setup much until Spring and this is the only device we plan to run directly on DC for now. Is there any reason to not just connect the XTAR directly to our battery terminals?

Thanks for the help!

 

[time2roll]

Direct to the terminals is fine. Use a fuse. Could even connect to the inverter terminals if easier. Still best to have a fuse to protect the wire.

 

[NRed]

Thank you for the help! There's more space at the inverter terminals so I'll add a fuse and give that a try.