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We have a 96v nominal battery - 280ah that we would like to use as an input to our ip43 charger to charge our house 12v battery system.
How do you wire the input lead on the IP43? We’ve looked everywhere but cannot find a diagram of how this should be set up?
The IP43 is an AC (mains) to DC (battery) charger not a battery to battery charger.
I might be misunderstanding what you are trying to do, can you explain more.
I have a 96v battery for my propulsion system on my sailboat, connected to a charge controller and 3 410w solar panels in series. I want to be able to move the charge from this battery to my house system at 12v so we have a reserve to operate with. It doesn’t need to go the other direction.
Simon Ytterbom, the Victron NA Sales Manager recommended we use the IP43 instead of using a smart solar charge controller. So now we’re trying to wire it up, and we’re not getting any lights on the device.
The IP43 Phoenix Charger can also handle DC on the input. ;)
290-355V DC for the 230V model and 90-375V DC for the 120-240V model.
https://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Datasheet-Smart-IP43-Charger-120-240V-EN.pdf
https://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Datasheet-Smart-IP43-Charger-230V-EN.pdf
@adventuress for the INPUT there is only the IEC connector.
How do you wire the connector? Hot goes where? Neutral goes where? Ground goes where?
That’s the question we have.
it’s 3 wires into 2.
Ah and so I have learned something today. That's @Matthias Lange - DE and @adventuress
Have a look at the example system schematics on the product page
I need to know how to wire it with a DC supply. Specifically where the hot, neutral and ground go when I have a positive and negative on the DC side only.
