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Great to really learn and understand this stuff and fun to build. I quickly learned that jumping on the bicycle to go to West Marine for each crimp was for the birds. I bought the tools. Not that much money and it makes it so much easier. Hmmmm . . . There's still room on the roof. At least...

Falling deeper in the pit, it would all need to be rewired and might as well add a new inverter/charger. As I said, no illusions of ever running A/C off this system, and rarely using the micro. I went with the Xantrax 2000 more for where I needed to install it than anything. It has performed to...

I knew I would need some solar. I went with four 100 watt panels from eBay. not because they were cheap (they were) but because they fit where I wanted to put them. This is where I fall into the sea of blue boxes. I needed something to put those panels into the battery and monitor it. I don't...

The first thing I knew was that 36 hours of battery would never be enough. Out with the lead and hello Battle Born. I figured three would be enough as I had no plans to run A/C off this system. Making that leap is crazy. We still have our gen at this point but we plan our travel and in the...

OR, please critique my electrical system. How'd I do? Just kidding. That picture was after I tidied up what Pleasure Way put in place as a "system". One of those breakers went off to a somewhat nice DC fuse panel and of course there was the typical Progressive Dynamics converter, transfer...

Number 11 went across Nikki’s desk today Thanks, ?

I’m not the techies member but I am running three other VictronConnect units in parallel to my three Battle Born so I will be an early adopter of the 12/12/30 Orion Smart. I have two 75/15 and one 100/30 charge controllers and the Orion unit appears to be built on the same 30A chassis as the 30A...

Yep, just laying out a possible option to have more charge adjustability than the buck offers Myself, I'll just go with one Orion Smart 12/12/30 and hope for the best. I think it will work for me. Right now I have 3 Battleborns and 600 watts of solar. Alternator charge through a dumb relay...

looks like the Victron 50A buck boost is about $700 Orion TR Smart 30A is looking like $260. Parallel 2 for $520 for 60A

Yes, you did. To the Victron Orion TR Smart. And yes it is programable. It is a DC-DC Charger, not a buck 12-12 Converter. The converters have voltage adjust but just to one specific point. They do not do multi stage charging.

I don’t believe those units can be custom programmed to play nice with all types of batteries.

Maybe save a couple $ and go 100/30 mppt it will handle up to 440 watts. For the BtoB, wait a month and Victron will have theirs out. It’s only 30A but they can be paralleled and you have enough Alt. power to push two. You would be all Victron then

thanks, Josh?

I was told “they are on the boat”

No, I was talking about who has answered the phone at BB when I have called there BUT You and Alan at Bay Marine are great too! That was me this morning with the questions about the Victron Orion-TR charger. Glad you found this place, I think your input will be appriceuated

This could almost work for me mounted vertical with longer or extending adjustment poles. Problem I see is with the panel extending past the pivot point it won't go up past level Keep ideas coming, thanks Here is a pretty slick sliding setup. https://oriondesigns.ca/

So losing 10% like that still leaves me with 90%. I would say that's better than 0%

But if one of the three panels gets shade won't the whole group be dead? Asking this because not all three will be on the same angle to the sun

OK, back to the solar experts. Ive read a bunch on combining different panels but I think I need to do so to maximize. One of my problems is that I am running out of room for charge controllers and switch/fuse space. And of course, we all run out of optimum space for panels. I would like to...

Thanks for the link to your setup. I like quick first idea