Charging and discharging battery bank

[gnoeld]

After dealing with my battery bank not being balanced I reconnected the wires with the help from this forum and per the wiring manual posted here. I chose the method of connecting the positive line to the first battery and the negative to the last battery in the bank.
I connected my inverter on the same batteries using the negative on the first battery and the positive on the last battery. Seems okay but wanted input to see if I use this method with the charging aspect is there a better way to do the inverter?

 

[John Frum]

A good design pattern is a ladder.
The busbars are the risers and the circuits are the rungs.
Here is an example topology

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[gnoeld]

A good design pattern is a ladder.
The busbars are the risers and the circuits are the rungs.
Here is an example topology

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If I look at just the battery connections it looks to me that each battery is connected to the buss bar but he negative is connected thru the discharge to the batteries. Sound right?

 

[John Frum]

If I look at just the battery connections it looks to me that each battery is connected to the buss bar but he negative is connected thru the discharge to the batteries. Sound right?

Yes.
But that is not what I was intending to hi-light.
The battery sub-assembly can be done many ways including the one shown but the overall system is a ladder.

 

[John Frum]

I'm confused there is only one battery in the diagram I posted.
Why are you talking about multiple batteries?

 

[gnoeld]

I'm confused there is only one battery in the diagram I posted.
Why are you talking about multiple batteries?

WOW!!! My eyes suck. I thought there were multiple batteries. It sucks getting old

 

[John Frum]

How many batteries do you have?

 

[gnoeld]

How many batteries do you have?

8 and going to 12

 

[John Frum]

8 and going to 12

All in parralel?

 

[12VoltInstalls]

8 and going to 12

Do them as three sets of crossed-cable four-battery parallel. And then equal-length cables parallel on a bus bar