Stupid Monkey
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So I thought I'd do a thread to document everything.
I live in the camper Feb/March to Oct/November while I'm working on site, well usually, not this year with CV19 lockdown and no events / mass gatherings.
The camper/RV/truck is a 1995 Mercedes 814, 8m/26ft long and for last year I had 2 x 315w JA solar panels on there into a 12v 30A MPPT/Battery to Battery charger combined and that was awesome. However i needed the generator for my oven/microwave and also wanted to get a dishwasher and washing machine installed.
After much research Wills vids, along with this forum gave me the confidence to buy some cells from China (AliExpress / BLS)at Christmas and hoped to get it all up and running much earlier than now (and it still isnt)
The BLS cells arrived in a timely manner, 6 weeks, and were well packaged and looked "new" and were all the same voltage. With a mind to "do it right" i set the 24 x 150AH into 1 parallel bank and began charging / top balancing them with a 10A charger ....
There is a thread here https://diysolarforum.com/threads/top-balancing-dilemma.4613/ about that, but the long and short is it was going to take too long and then to speed up the process I configured them into a 12v setup but then blew up the charger ........
I live in the camper Feb/March to Oct/November while I'm working on site, well usually, not this year with CV19 lockdown and no events / mass gatherings.
The camper/RV/truck is a 1995 Mercedes 814, 8m/26ft long and for last year I had 2 x 315w JA solar panels on there into a 12v 30A MPPT/Battery to Battery charger combined and that was awesome. However i needed the generator for my oven/microwave and also wanted to get a dishwasher and washing machine installed.
After much research Wills vids, along with this forum gave me the confidence to buy some cells from China (AliExpress / BLS)at Christmas and hoped to get it all up and running much earlier than now (and it still isnt)
The BLS cells arrived in a timely manner, 6 weeks, and were well packaged and looked "new" and were all the same voltage. With a mind to "do it right" i set the 24 x 150AH into 1 parallel bank and began charging / top balancing them with a 10A charger ....
There is a thread here https://diysolarforum.com/threads/top-balancing-dilemma.4613/ about that, but the long and short is it was going to take too long and then to speed up the process I configured them into a 12v setup but then blew up the charger ........