Guda
Superstrut Strut
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2019
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- 516
Just to catch everyone up. Generator burned down my most everything Jan 31st of this hellish year. Bought a "powerbox" to use my truck as a generator so I would not have to have a generator. Didn't work.
Now what I am doing is adding a 3000w Reliable brand inverter. I'm just making this is own system & leaving the under powered inverter in to do the light lifting. I am also adding a converter. I want to be able to pass power (even at bad conversion loss) back & forth from my truck system to my home system. Now while I am doin all this I am also going to hard wire the engine block heater to the low power side. Flip a switch vs dangling a extension cord.
Once I have my new home battery (ordering cells & BMS soon) I am going to add a Midnite 250 to the truck system. One or two pv on the truck roof & a trailer full of pv down the road. I am also looking at adding a 2nd 250amp alternator if the one I have is not keeping up. One last upgrade is going to be 2 more batteries that are jumbo to replace the trucks batteries.
I just got the inverter in the mail today. Have to open the "powerbox" tomorrow & make a parts list. I think I need a huge fuse. What size fuse for 12v 3000w inverter?
Oh also need to add hour meter to the truck for the biggest reason I want to do all this. Oil change. I really really disliked changing oil all the time. I'm not a oil guy, well unless its coconut oil in my hair or olive oil in my food, other than that, not into oil. Any solvents really are time to bust out the rubber gloves.
Now what I am doing is adding a 3000w Reliable brand inverter. I'm just making this is own system & leaving the under powered inverter in to do the light lifting. I am also adding a converter. I want to be able to pass power (even at bad conversion loss) back & forth from my truck system to my home system. Now while I am doin all this I am also going to hard wire the engine block heater to the low power side. Flip a switch vs dangling a extension cord.
Once I have my new home battery (ordering cells & BMS soon) I am going to add a Midnite 250 to the truck system. One or two pv on the truck roof & a trailer full of pv down the road. I am also looking at adding a 2nd 250amp alternator if the one I have is not keeping up. One last upgrade is going to be 2 more batteries that are jumbo to replace the trucks batteries.
I just got the inverter in the mail today. Have to open the "powerbox" tomorrow & make a parts list. I think I need a huge fuse. What size fuse for 12v 3000w inverter?
Oh also need to add hour meter to the truck for the biggest reason I want to do all this. Oil change. I really really disliked changing oil all the time. I'm not a oil guy, well unless its coconut oil in my hair or olive oil in my food, other than that, not into oil. Any solvents really are time to bust out the rubber gloves.