[Nebster]

Greetings all,

Now that things are mostly assembled, mostly working, and we are a few days away from becoming full time RVers again, I wanted to start a thread to document some of the electrical rejigging I have been undertaking in coach 1234, a.k.a. "the Enterprise."

I basically decided I wanted a new hobby for 2017 and 2018, so I started designing and procuring this system last summer.  It uses 96 LiFEPO4 (hereinafter "LFP") cells connected in six paralleled, sixteen-cell strings.  Each string has about 5kWh of energy storage, making a total pack of about 31kWh, or as I like to say to folks, "about half a Tesla."

Here are some of the cells on my test bench, getting balanced, prior to installation:

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And here is a "string" of 16 cells getting prepped to go in the battery tray.



I had to remove and modify the tray to get about an extra inch of clearance on the lower trays, versus the Newell stock 8DLs we know and love.