Pre-charge resistor seems crazy

[cs1234]

Frick I wonder if you would make a small post with some pictures of what you use .. that sounds like a great addition

Alternatively, if you don't mind spending some money, you could buy the battleborn csl500.

Disclaimer, I haven't tried one, but they have been discussed here on the forum. Solved some problems for somebody that was having problems with his battery bank going into overload on inverter reboots.

 

[Frick]

Frick I wonder if you would make a small post with some pictures of what you use .. that sounds like a great addition

I suppose I could, next time I dig in there I’ll get pics. Battery is sort of buried at the moment, glad it’s working without intervention.

 

[Frick]

@Britman

My pre-charge resistor answer for my inverter

I was asked to post a pic, finally dug enough junk out to get to the battery. I built it nearly a year and a half ago and haven’t seen it since, it’s been working flawlessly the resistor is wired from position 1 to output, battery is position 2 to output. turning from off to 1 allows a 10/sec...

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