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This thread has been very educational, I truly appreciate everyone taking the time out of their day to talk shop. I'm the type that needs to ruminate on things and turn over every possible stone before I can quite say I've made a final decision on things, but this is where think I'm headed. I'm...

Thanks for the response. To clarify what you’re saying here, do you mean don’t run the built in Kisae MPPT chargers in the units if you have them in parallel, or do you mean don’t run separate, independent MPPTs within the Kisae array?

the batteries will be inside, which will be heated pretty much full time through the season, because we will be living out of the thing full time. So it should never really approach 32 in there. If it does it means the heater is blown and we’re making a beeline south/down to protect our own...

full time lithium (300ah) for the house, the starters are AGM. Days stationary really comes down to context and our power capabilities. I wouldn’t say I’m attached to NEEDING to not move the thing for a week or anything like that. Batteries are all inside. Lots and lots of snow, ideally. we...

All depends, but generally I expect to be doing enough sporadic driving. I’d plan to use a generator in cases where I wasn’t. It won’t be long term parked anywhere, but it will be in places where solar will probably provide very little input, so I’m just looking for solutions that will be most...

it could be a weakness that’s totally unique to the renogy DC-DC, but apparently rather than activating based on voltage, it’s connected to the ignition signal and will when the ignition is set to on, draining the starter battery. If that’s the only one that suffers from that problem, all the...

Okay thanks, that’s what I was thinking. So just to be sure, I don’t plan on putting this much into it at once anyway, but since my bank is 300ah (3 batteries that will be wired in parallel), it could take 150a and maintain .5c?

So maybe I’m operating on bad information here, seems critical so I’m glad you brought it up, but I thought that charging amperage for the batteries was additive when they are wired together in parallel. So theoretically my bank would be able to handle up to 150a? Or does the single battery...

How long we will be stationary ultimately depends on our ability to keep the lights on, so to speak. We will also be spending lots of time in the PNW and BC, and even further north. I would say it’s within the realm of possibility, if we can pull it off that we could be parked for a week at a...

Ive read that the sterling can distinguish between an actual ignition as opposed to just a key in then “on” position, which is something apparently not all DC-DC chargers can distinguish. Do you know if the redark has this ability?

Gotchya, thanks for running through that. I feel like the curtain has been lifted on somethings I hadn’t previously thought of as viable. I have a Lithium battery bank so your comments have reaffirmed that purchase. I’m going to hit the drawing board again with regard to my solar arrays but I’m...

this is good feedback. I’m thinking it may not hurt to throw more panel up there than I had originally planned. Do you have a take on series vs parallel panel wiring for real world, winter time use? Both, through separate controllers? It seems like there’s no hard right or wrong with this...

thanks for the response! So it sounds like 50a from the alternator is probably enough to keep our battery topped off for typical day to day use if we are able to go for a drive fairly regularly, even more so if there is some solar input.

thanks for the reply, I can see the generator being a good call for certain scenarios, especially if we end up in the FAR north (AK, YT) in the shoulder seasons which is within the realm of possibility, I’ll be looking into that more.

It is extremely helpful, thank you! So to clarify, I could run solar through both the REDARK and a separate controller as two independent solar arrays to charge the same bank? That’s another option I hadn’t thought of but it’s intriguing. Do you need to take special precautions to avoid...

I'm currently building out a Ford transit, 2020, Heavy Duty Alternator (250a), dual AGM starter batteries and 300ah of Lithium for the house. The the goal is to make it a pretty bomber winter rig. We will be spending lots of time in very snowy places and at high enough latitudes that solar just...