[edkunkel]

Is the distance installation recommendation based on spark (for lead acid) or HEAT for lithium?

Eric Kunkel

[encantotom]

they ideally want the battery monitor outside the compartment of the batteries to avoid corrosion and or spark.

i have agm batteries so should have neither

as for the 5 foot rule on the twisted pair wires, he said it was due to resistance values. not sure i buy it

tom

[Richard]

Yeah the length thing is puzzling, cause the original twisted pairs from the shunts went all the way the panel above the microwave where the control panel is/was.

[folivier]

Probably in a lab test the distance might matter, but for our purposes it shouldn't make that much of a difference. Unless you want to count mili Amps.

[encantotom]

for those of you with the magnum inverter charger.....is it mounted directly on the wall of the bay or on a panel or on standoffs.

thanks

tom

[folivier]

Forgot to ask Tom, but what is the bulkhead made of that you're mounting the Magnum to?
Is it carpet covered?

[HoosierDaddy]

Could u go to 14 gauge wire??

[encantotom]

Yes it is carpet covered

Tom

[Richard]

I mounted mine directly to the carpet covered wall just like the original.

[encantotom]

i decided how i am mounting it. the wall is pretty flimsy and the inverter is very heavy. so, i cut a 16x16 piece of 3/4 plywood. i went to the metal supply shop and got some scrap 1/8 aluminum diamondplate that they sell for 3 bucks a pound and had them cut it on their shear to the same size as the plywood. got some 1/4-20 t nuts and will drill the holes in the plywood and diamondplate and screw it to the wall with a zillion screws, then mount the inverter on the plate using bolts into the tnuts.

i am mounting the shunt in the battery compartment and making a couple of new 4/0 cables for it. i have a hydraulic cable crimper that works up to a couple of sizes past 4/0. i am mounting the battery monitor module in the aquahot bay to make it easy to see. then run new cable to the inverter from it through the bays.

last i have to make a new adapter plate for the control panel as it is a different size than the prosine one.

tom