Victron Inverter Charger Installation
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2021
- Victron Inverter Charger Installation on a boat or RV. Just how useful is a Victron Inverter Charger? How can an inverter charger install make your off grid life more comfortable? How easy is it to fit one? Here's a step by step guide.
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Really enjoyed your video. Easy explanation of inverter installation, lean, clean, no frills and fluff. Well done guys! Cheers from west coast America!
Ta guys 👍
Love the videos guys, soo informative, I have a wee 16ft microplus 501 boat in Dixons marina Carrybridge. Me and my granda sleep over in it. Boating is such a lovely escape for me after my dad left us. And then took us to court. Love you guys and I cant wait for your next video!
Hi Kim and thanks for your comment. It’s great that you have
allies when you're going through tough times. You have two, your
Grandad and your boat. (Being a Grandad myself I can confirm
that we are full of wisdom!) We treasure that solace we find
on our boat, and it’s a very welcome escape from all that life throws
at us. Look after yourself and enjoy all those good times. H&M
Thank you! I like very easy instructions and you explained the switching charging side, off, inverter side! 👍
Thanks Mrs Love 👍
Hi Harry and Marion. I just recently found your great blog and I've been binge watching and following your story. I have a boat myself and this has cheered me up during this extremely trying time. Thanks for all the videos. Perhaps I might bump into yourselves this year on the Shannon. I came here as I am fitting a new solar system complete myself , so thanks for the tips. All the best, Martin
Hi Martin, glad you enjoy the videos, only sorry it not possible to film just now. It would cheer us up to be making some too. If you spot us on the water, do make yourself known to us 👍. H&M
i love that jetty in lough key. tied up a few times there. fantastic vid, i love all the tech side of boating. ive learned more on your vlog than i did at school
I recently discovered that it will run an ice making machine! So cold summer drinks await 👍
@@DriftwoodBoatBlog Ice, Ice, Baby,
Nice work Harry. Good to see you still keeping a spare tub of vaseline on board😉
Howye Charlie, think you might have left that behind 😉
@@DriftwoodBoatBlog you'll be giving hairdressing classes next💇♀️✂️
Pure and honest review! quite nice tbh!
Thanks for that 👍
👍 left you a message on Facebook. Keep up the great videos. Got me hooked on boating
We'll that's great to hear 👍 I can't apologies if I got you hooked on this boating lark!
Nice work Harry & Marion! Now that you have the new Nautical Hairdressing service set up on the Shannon, yes... Naughty Cuts, I’m sure that the inverter will pay for itself! 😬
Happy New Year 2021 and Fair Winds to you both.
Warmest regards,
Pete & Caroline.
Hi Pete & Caroline, Oh ye! Naughty Cuts!😬 and with Crew cuts as a speciality! I can see a new career unfolding 😬
H&M
Nice easy installation. I've fitted an inverter charger hybrid myself last year that also looks after the solar and yes theyre a great bit of kit. I would however look at a battery upgrade to get the most from the system. Best of luck with it all.
Ye they are great. You're right about our battery bank. Lithium would be the eat to go but very expensive. I'll wait till these die a death first 🙄
A nice wee unit you got there Harry.... We have separate inverter and charger units on board Adventurer. That victron system would be much more slick!
Thanks Chris, we're very happy with it, just need to look a upgrading the batteries sometime soon 🙄
We have a Built-in generator on our new boat it’s bsolutely brilliant we don’t have to plug one on any more and have it out on jetty I’m with u on this Marion u can have any hairdryer now on full weak not like them times only a certain hairdryer tend to run the straightness though my hair but I’m going to buy a hairdryer and straightness call the boat it’s amazing and we can have a lamp on if we was in the middle of the water just have to switch the switch and the generator will turn on yay 🥳🥳
Way to go Robert 👍 enjoy your new boat in 2021 😊
@@DriftwoodBoatBlog thank u can’t wait 😄😊
I fitted the same inverter/charger this summer, also purchased in Euromotive. The price was surprisingly equivalent to what I could get online, and they had it in stock and were able to sort me out when I pulled into Carrick with a failed charger.
A question...are you really able to manage a standard kettle and hairdryer with a 1600w inverter? If so, I'm plesantly surprised.
Also, I fitted a battery cut-off on the positive from the battery and a circuit breaker on the shorepower AC input to the inverter. The battery switch is so you can turn off the battery supply to the inverter if you're working on things. This is important because it's easy to forget the inverter can electrocute you via the batteries even with shorepower disconnected.
Hi Doug. Yes the inverter certainly does run the hairdryer. And it's quite a hefty hairdryer too. The kettle we used is a low amp caravan kettle but yes both work perfectly. My only concern is that it a hefty drain on the batteries. Ye Euromotive are a good crown to deal with, and the fact that they are convenient to the river is handy too.
I like your idea about the additional cut-off switch. Might copy you! H&M
@@DriftwoodBoatBlog I have a camping kettle as well, which works, but I think a kettle on the hob may be faster! I did get a nesspresso machine working as well though.
I'm going to try an ice making machine next! would be nice with a cold cider on those long hot summer days.
Thank you, you sold my Wife on one !
Happy wife, happy boat ⛵😃
Loving the videos can I ask what make model driftwood is?
Looking boat again after selling last year
Hi Ron, ye she's a Drettmann DD Yacht, built in Germany around 1984. Best of luck with the boat hunting 👍
@@DriftwoodBoatBlog Thanks a million, great looking boat nice and wide unlike so many of the Dutch steel boats. Was at Gavin's last week to see if he had anything but nothing that suited. Sorry we sold our wee ocean 30, i just restored her like new and cant find anything better> :( keep looking LOL! see you on the water i hope.
I like inverters
Yep they're handy 😉
This is off topic but have you any idea how to put 8mm tape onto video tape, have 2 home boating video but camcorder broke and don't wanna buy something expensive just for 2 of them, it's a long shot but maybe you might know ? Cheers X X
There used to be an adapter that you could put the 8mm cassette into to run it in a video player. Be hard to get now. I look at getting the tape put onto a HDD if you could find someone doing that. Hope that's of some help. H&M
Hi just want to ask how this handle over 1000w
Did you try over 2000w to 3000w does it work
Hi, think it's rated at 1600w, but I think it can handle more than that if it's not for a long period.
Have to comment here as I have some major concerns about your set up. First thing are your batteries, please change these for proper leisure/deep cycle batteries otherwise you’ll pay some severe consequences. Any engine starter battery is not designed to be discharged slowly over time, they are designed to give high current over a short time, so starting an engine, powering a bow thruster and operating a windlass. The plates on a starter battery are much thinner which gives them this advantage. A leisure or deep cycle battery has much thicker plates and is designed to give a slow release of current over a much longer time so ideal for running the systems on your boat including an inverter and not good for any other application except in a emergency situation where you use them to jump start your engine once in a blue moon. I’ve seen starter batteries being used as leisure batteries explode in an engine bay.......it’s horrific. These starter batteries you have are also sealed, and this is the charging profile you should have selected on your Victron and disabled the equalisation charge cycle, this is VERY important. Your battery to battery connection links are far too small as well to be taking current of 160Amps. These should be 50mm2 minimum, 70mm2 is nice....same with that tiny negative cable from your shunt to the neg bus bar....far too small. Someone else also said about fitting an isolator switch in the positive DC line, this would be another great idea....a 200A marine rotary type is minimum for this. Fitting an inverter/charger isn’t really 100% straight forward as there is much to read and absorb, especially those Victron’s. Them and Mastervolt are the cream of marine power systems. You’ve spent all this money on the best here.....you now need to address your battery bank sooner rather than later. I’ve just got your best interests at heart here.
Hi Metal Snapper, Thanks for your comment. While it's true that deep cycle batteries will offer more usable amp hours and are much more resistant to sulphation than my lead acid batteries. Truth is that I'm very careful never to allow them to discharge anywhere close to 50% and most often not even below 80%. So sulphation should not be an issue. There is no danger of the Multi causing my batteries to explode as the charger will go into float as soon as the batteries are fully charged. I will be upgrading the batteries and do plan to replace them with AGM or possibly Lithium in the future.
My Multiplus was programmed to rum with lead acid from day one. I will have a look at the battery terminal cables and I probably will have to upgrade them as well. Thanks for your input though, it's always good to get another point of view. 👍