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Attached is a schematic of my electrical power system on my 1977 Trojan F26 cruiser. Everything is working fine. BMV712 is networked with the MPPT100/30 and the 2 170W PVs are supplying adequate power to the 200AH LiFePo4 house bank. The original system powered by FLA deep cycle batteries.
Please take a look at the schematic and give me your thoughts. Much appreciated!
Probably a drawing error: the black wire between the battery negative and negative bus bar should be a red wire between the battery positive and the positive busbar.
And you should have a fuse on this wire (and on all positive wires connected to a battery/busbar).
Even better, wire each battery to the busbar/shunt.
You have drawn connections from both sides of the shunt to the negative bus bar. Nothing except the shunt should be connected to the battery negative, so the wire from the lower battery negative to the bus bar should be eliminated. Otherwise, the shunt won't properly measure current in and out of the battery and provide bogus SOC numbers.
Switching the battery switch to the 1+2 position shorts out the Orion charger which is probably not a good idea. It might be a better idea to provide switching to reverse the Orion charger input and output connections so the house battery can charge the engine battery in an emergency.
You should take positive off one battery and negative off the other to better balance battery usage. Treat every connection as if it were a resistor and you'll see why.
Fuses to protect wiring from a short circuit that would cause battery current to flow through the short should be installed for every connection leaving the battery.
Thanks. The drawing doesn’t show it, but the battery side of the shunt is only connected to the battery bank neg and the load side of the shunt is connected to the neg of the shunt. I connected the “back” battery neg to the charging neg and the “front” battery pos to the charging pos for better “balancing” of both batteries when they’re being charged.
I agree about the 1+2 switch, but am careful about never using that setting. I’m not sure I want to reverse the in-out of the Orion as the present set up is there to keep the 70A engine alternator charging current to the LFP house bank under control when I’m underway.
I’m using properly sized MRBF fuses at all positives, but don’t show that it in my drawing, which I need to do
Appreciate the feedback!
