I think it will work just fine and I might have done it a different but I work long hours sometimes so I wanted something completely automated for my wife. I already have too much stuff that goes down on occasion like the internet.
That is my buss. I feed both ends of the buss from my inverter. I chose it for see real reasons instead of making my own. First it’s rated at 1000A. Secondly with the addition of some bolts, each battery is fused. And third at about $150 each I couldn’t fabricate one much cheaper. I know it’s engineered to handle 3/4 more amps than I will push through it. Here is one with the cover off. My other thing I couldn’t find an elegant way to cover a homemade one and they need to be covered. It has both the positive and negative buss inside. Each will handle 4 batteries. They interlock so you can add a bunch together. I have two for my 8 batteries.
I chose Trophy brand batteries they are 230Ah each. Will did a review of them and he like the quality construction. They have been very good so far. I hate the wire management but since all leads need to be equal length it was difficult to make them look better.
I see now that's just totally a really fancy bus bar, with that victron blue it looked like some kind of battery controller looks really good.I like tthen. I had to add a few similar items to my bus bars I kept having to keep adding positives and negatives and I'm like tired of drilling holes and trying to add bolts through the bus bars so I added these at the top of the battery Bank, 3/8 studs they'll handle like a thousand amps I've only got a few things hooked to to them but it gives me room to expand they're more for power taps to feed the victron equipment.
That's good for her that you got it automated. I came so close to going that route I talked myself out of it because of the cost. As long as it works that's the important thing . Although not automated I've got mine labeled so well I've shown the few family members how to operate it . Flip the interlock switch on the breaker box and push a button on the inverter control panel and it works. When I install the generator I'll have a push button start in the power room should be pretty neat. I bought a 10 KW Westinghouse dual fuel with remote start but I'm only going to run it on propane. It will actually be tied to my thousand gallon propane tank when I built the house 12 years ago I actually had a pipe ran to the end of the house and capped.
That was a really good video nice little bus bars there. I've actually watched that guy a few different times. During my research and development phases trying to figure different things out. He's actually got a lot of good videos seems to favor the victron equipment. I'm really happy to have some victron equipment and to me it's amazing what it will do for the price. I just wish they would make a full-blown grid tie inverter that would sell back to the grid. I read an article somewhere that they used to make grid tie inverters years ago but the market got so competitive they just dropped the line.
i have the hyclat hydraulic crimper; used #70 on 4/0 stranded wire and it didn't clamp tight enough, even tried crimping twice, no go. i think
I bought one of those pound style crimpers years ago and used it several times and my shop is so full of stuff. I could not find it to save my life. I was able to borrow a hydraulic pump crimper but it only goes up to 1/0 so I'm going to make two of those cables. I literally ended up buying three 4/0 cables the fine-strand good stuff for the rs 450/200 charge controller to the battery Bank and want to replace one cable on the inverter that I made years ago a 2/0 rest of the cables were all factory xantrex 4/0 cables.
