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Originally Posted by Casey Freswick
Yes, I am still here. I did not connected the wire from my TV to my battery. I also normally just shut the breaker off for the converter. I charge my battery (batteries) with my vitron 30 amp solar controller. I have 3 100 watt solar panels on the back of the rear shell. If I have access and need shore power I will turn the circuit breaker on. I just added a 200 Amp battery to my 100 amp battery. So I now have 300 amp battery bank. I put the 200 amp battery in the storage compartment under the rear bed. This may be particularly beneficial if I am in a low temp situations where I can warm that battery up. I have shut off switches for both batteries. Here are pictures of my bus bars, one battery, solar controller and inverter.
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Casey.......... I will be kind and just say that your "busbars" look unsafe and probably not as effective as what you might be trying to accomplish.
The main reason for busbars is to avoid stacking wire terminals and decrease the possibility of accidental shorts. What you have created does just the opposite. Stacking wire terminals increases resistance and potential for corrosion and other problems. I see that you chose to double up on 2/0 gauge wire as apposed to going with 4/0 wires. You only need to have 4/0 wire from the battery to a busbar and from that busbar to the inverter if you plan to run high amperage appliances (like A/C) from your inverter. That's your high amp draw. I'm thinking that a single 2/0 wire may be plenty for what you might be running. The rest of the wires need only be single, 10AWG wire (8AWG at the the most). You have way over complicated your wiring.
Today is Father's Day and I have to leave soon. If you'd like, I can draw you a plan for rectifying what you have there. I just can't do it today. What you have may work but trust me, it may cause you more headaches than you can imagine over time.
Is your inverter a pure sine wave inverter?
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