Ariel188
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Hello again everyone! ;-)
Sooo I talked to battleborn to let them know I was not going to get their batteries after all since they did spend 2 hours on the phone with me designing a system of 1080amp with 4 of their new gamechangers batteries and victron components and a wakespeed. To say they were not pleased, is an understatement. Telling me I will regret it and I am making huge mistake, and in 6 months my system won't work at all because 1380 amp is WAY too huge of a battery bank to charge if I do not plan on plugging into shore power. They also said it would take 1.5 days to charge those batteries with the 120 invertor I am getting. True?
I told them instead of the nations 280 with wakespeed I was considering roam rigs alternation with their regulator. They said if I dont use wakespeed I would be in trouble. He then admitted they bought wakespeed and redesigned it. Is this maybe why he said this? Oh I am so confused, and do not want to spent 20K on a bad solar system.....
I bought 3 epoch 460 amp hour batteries and planned to have all victron components as listed below.
I have not decided on which second alternator yet, but I will have a second alternator 100%! Any opinions about a second alternator for a sprinter van are welcome.
Can anyone please let me know if this is a good system, or what they may change and why? I don't think I need victrons BMS (BAM030712000 Victron BMV-712 Battery Monitor) with the epoch batteries right? Oh BB also told me that my 710 watts solar I spent $4300 on is now worthless, with that battery bank size, is this true?
I told BB I would still buy all the victron stuff from them. At first they said it was programmed for their batteries, but then back pedaled to say I could use it with the epochs if I knew what "profile" the epoch batteries used. I have no idea what this means......
So should I buy the victron components from BB, or individually somewhere else? Please help, I do not want to make a huge mistake with all this! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! ;-)
12 volt system for my van:
- 3 Epoch 460 amps = 1380 amp hours
- 710 watts of solar (3 panels 170 watts and 2 panels 100 watts)
- Victron Energy MultiPlus-II 12/3000/120-50 120V inverter/charger
- SmartSolar MPPT 100/50 Charge Controller with Bluetooth (for the 3 panels at 170 watts each)
- SmartSolar MPPT 100/20_48V (for the 2 panels at 100 watts each)
- Victron Lynx Distributor positive and negative bus bar w/ fuse holders.
- Victron Battery Switch cut off switch
- Lynx Power In (bus bar for batteries)
- Cerbo GX
- GT Touch Screen 50
- Interface MK3-USB-C (VE.Bus to USB-C)
- VE.Direct Cable 1.8m
- RJ45 UTP Cable 1.8m
- MEGA-Fuse 300A/32c (5-pack)
-MEGA-Fuse 100A/32c (5-pack)
Sooo I talked to battleborn to let them know I was not going to get their batteries after all since they did spend 2 hours on the phone with me designing a system of 1080amp with 4 of their new gamechangers batteries and victron components and a wakespeed. To say they were not pleased, is an understatement. Telling me I will regret it and I am making huge mistake, and in 6 months my system won't work at all because 1380 amp is WAY too huge of a battery bank to charge if I do not plan on plugging into shore power. They also said it would take 1.5 days to charge those batteries with the 120 invertor I am getting. True?
I told them instead of the nations 280 with wakespeed I was considering roam rigs alternation with their regulator. They said if I dont use wakespeed I would be in trouble. He then admitted they bought wakespeed and redesigned it. Is this maybe why he said this? Oh I am so confused, and do not want to spent 20K on a bad solar system.....
I bought 3 epoch 460 amp hour batteries and planned to have all victron components as listed below.
I have not decided on which second alternator yet, but I will have a second alternator 100%! Any opinions about a second alternator for a sprinter van are welcome.
Can anyone please let me know if this is a good system, or what they may change and why? I don't think I need victrons BMS (BAM030712000 Victron BMV-712 Battery Monitor) with the epoch batteries right? Oh BB also told me that my 710 watts solar I spent $4300 on is now worthless, with that battery bank size, is this true?
I told BB I would still buy all the victron stuff from them. At first they said it was programmed for their batteries, but then back pedaled to say I could use it with the epochs if I knew what "profile" the epoch batteries used. I have no idea what this means......
So should I buy the victron components from BB, or individually somewhere else? Please help, I do not want to make a huge mistake with all this! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! ;-)
12 volt system for my van:
- 3 Epoch 460 amps = 1380 amp hours
- 710 watts of solar (3 panels 170 watts and 2 panels 100 watts)
- Victron Energy MultiPlus-II 12/3000/120-50 120V inverter/charger
- SmartSolar MPPT 100/50 Charge Controller with Bluetooth (for the 3 panels at 170 watts each)
- SmartSolar MPPT 100/20_48V (for the 2 panels at 100 watts each)
- Victron Lynx Distributor positive and negative bus bar w/ fuse holders.
- Victron Battery Switch cut off switch
- Lynx Power In (bus bar for batteries)
- Cerbo GX
- GT Touch Screen 50
- Interface MK3-USB-C (VE.Bus to USB-C)
- VE.Direct Cable 1.8m
- RJ45 UTP Cable 1.8m
- MEGA-Fuse 300A/32c (5-pack)
-MEGA-Fuse 100A/32c (5-pack)
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