fisherman
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Good Morning,
Looking at setting up a small ~1200w panel system with 100-200ah 24V battery capacity which I may scale larger down the road. Prefer to use BattleBorn or another LiFePo4 brand that has BMS and a good warranty. Looking to use Victron for the charge controller and inverter/charger.
This will be used for a small cabin likely 6 months a year. It gets very cold (-40c) here so I'd be removing the batteries for storage in the winter as I don't have a way to keep them warm.
I had a couple questions as I'm trying to figure out what would be the optimal configuration.
1. Cost aside, would it be better to use multiple 12v batteries in series to achieve 24V? Or use a single or dual 24v batteries in parallel?
2. How does BMS come into play in either config provided the batteries themselves have BMS?
3. Would I need to purchase a battery balancer for this config?
4. Is there anything else to consider with this type of setup?
I'd appreciate your feedback.
Thank you
Looking at setting up a small ~1200w panel system with 100-200ah 24V battery capacity which I may scale larger down the road. Prefer to use BattleBorn or another LiFePo4 brand that has BMS and a good warranty. Looking to use Victron for the charge controller and inverter/charger.
This will be used for a small cabin likely 6 months a year. It gets very cold (-40c) here so I'd be removing the batteries for storage in the winter as I don't have a way to keep them warm.
I had a couple questions as I'm trying to figure out what would be the optimal configuration.
1. Cost aside, would it be better to use multiple 12v batteries in series to achieve 24V? Or use a single or dual 24v batteries in parallel?
2. How does BMS come into play in either config provided the batteries themselves have BMS?
3. Would I need to purchase a battery balancer for this config?
4. Is there anything else to consider with this type of setup?
I'd appreciate your feedback.
Thank you