Your battery isn't a load when it charges. Your amperage flow when charging is from charger to the battery. When a light bulb, or load, is powered by a battery, the amperage flow is from thr battery pushing towards the light bulb. When you're charging with the IP22, the battery is actually your load because the charger is pushing amperage flow to the battery. Consider swapping your circuit breaker if you have a circuit breaker on the charger lead.
Your batteries should be individually fused as well. I use Blue Sea (Bussmann) MRBF on mine. Take the BMS Continuous Current Rating, the wire gauge, and your specific use-case into consideration. For example, if I were using a 100A BMS, 4ga wire, and no inverter, I'd probably use 100A or less on the fuses. If I threw an inverter into the mix I might use a 125A fuse depending on what my inverter loads are. That said, I'd use much bigger with than 4ga if I had an inverter. lol. Always keep some spare fuses on hand.
@@go_on_life Your batteries are capable of delivering HUNDREDs of amps of current. I would not solely rely on the BMS overcurrent protection to stop a catastrophic meltdown if, for example, one of the batteries tries to charge the other (battery imbalance) or a short circuit. It's cheap protection.
Thanks so much for watching brother! Hope you guys are doing great! I have had this designed in my head for over two years now, what a blessing to see it happen. The new rig is power happy… hey you might really like this video I did on my other channel, it just came out today. It’s certainly geared toward prepping. How to stay warm during a blackout? Check out this VEVOR Diesel Heater as an Option! ua-cam.com/video/YywsxBeBhJs/v-deo.html
Very true, I would remount it vertically as well. I'm even taking mine apart to add a second fan, if you take off the blue part on the top, you will see a provision for a fan, the other fan is mounted towards the bottom. My general rule of thumb is to mount all victron equipment so you can read the labels
Pretty sure that breaker is backwards. The flow of power is going from the charger to the batteries. That makes the charger the LINE side and the battery the LOAD side.
Nice job. The only thing I have to advise is, that you need to throw thw auto fuse away and change it to an old type of fuse as the auto fuse will stop working in a few weeks/months as the internel resistance will riser over time.
No I kept that completely disconnected. From my understanding it’s not compliant with Lithium so I just kept it out. I will get a dc to dc charger in the future to charge while driving. I’ll get that before solar since we drive so often. Thanks for watching.
@@go_on_life confused: you have to plug in your seven way plug while towing, so how did you keep that out ? while driving down the road? sorry, I don't want to charge my lithium from my alternator but the seven way plug automatically charges the acid batteries which I will now be replacing with lithium. How do you avoid charging feature in the seven way plug when you're plugged in and towing your vehicle down the road? I hope that doesn't sound too crazy of a question
@@RVRebelGirl Not at all. On my 2020 Jayco Jayflight the 7 pin wires meet up at a little electrical box that is bolted onto the front frame of the camper. Inside there the power from the 7pin that would charge the led acid batteries was connected via a wire nut to a wire that ran toward the batteries. I disconnected that at the wire nut and just taped the wire nut off with black electrical tape. So when I am driving it is still sending power through but it stops at a wire nut.
I own a "Blue Smart Charger" from Victon...of which the LiFePo4 setting for their charger is labeled "LI-ION". What is happening here is a game of semantics. Nobody is wiring parallel/series strings of 18650 vape batteries into their RV. Apparently Lithium Ion means something completely different to the RV industry than the rest of the world. He's both RIGHT AND WRONG when he says Lithium Ion...and it's not his fault.
Nice video, be careful coiling those large cables in use. The insulation rating on cable insulation is based on its ability to dissipate heat in the cable as it passes current. Coiling cables that have current running through them can lead to insulation failure and potentially a fire.get on the web and search for coiled cable fires and you’ll see lots of pictures of melted cables that were used as they were coiled. Better to trim the cable to the length that you need and store the extra cable somewhere in your shop.
That’s a good word man. I’ll take another look at that and I see what you mean. I coiled them up so that when I sell the camper I can put another led acid back in and take my stuff with me quickly. I’ll rethink that or add longer cables again when that time comes. Lucky right now all I have is my LED lights and water pump running off the battery so there will never be a big enough load coming out of those coiled cables to get hot.
I hear ya! I plan to install several more items like the solar charge controller and dc to dc charger with the appropriate fuses, wow! Imagine my brain trying to guess ahead for where those will go. If we do an inverter it will be big do it will have to go non s separate board to the left. Thanks for watching
Great Video and an even better witness! God Bless and keep sharing!
Thanks so much for watching 👍✝️
Your battery isn't a load when it charges. Your amperage flow when charging is from charger to the battery. When a light bulb, or load, is powered by a battery, the amperage flow is from thr battery pushing towards the light bulb. When you're charging with the IP22, the battery is actually your load because the charger is pushing amperage flow to the battery. Consider swapping your circuit breaker if you have a circuit breaker on the charger lead.
Are you talking about the breaker on the IP22?
Your batteries should be individually fused as well. I use Blue Sea (Bussmann) MRBF on mine. Take the BMS Continuous Current Rating, the wire gauge, and your specific use-case into consideration.
For example, if I were using a 100A BMS, 4ga wire, and no inverter, I'd probably use 100A or less on the fuses. If I threw an inverter into the mix I might use a 125A fuse depending on what my inverter loads are. That said, I'd use much bigger with than 4ga if I had an inverter. lol. Always keep some spare fuses on hand.
I’ve never seen that in any build out model.
@@go_on_life Your batteries are capable of delivering HUNDREDs of amps of current. I would not solely rely on the BMS overcurrent protection to stop a catastrophic meltdown if, for example, one of the batteries tries to charge the other (battery imbalance) or a short circuit.
It's cheap protection.
@@RK-kn1ud thanks!!
Looks great! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for letting us know about the tools too.
Thanks so much for watching brother! Hope you guys are doing great! I have had this designed in my head for over two years now, what a blessing to see it happen. The new rig is power happy… hey you might really like this video I did on my other channel, it just came out today. It’s certainly geared toward prepping. How to stay warm during a blackout? Check out this VEVOR Diesel Heater as an Option!
ua-cam.com/video/YywsxBeBhJs/v-deo.html
You might do some research about mounting your IP22 sideways. Victron might tell you it has to be mounted vertically for fan cooling.
I saw one of their videos with is sideways.
Very true, I would remount it vertically as well. I'm even taking mine apart to add a second fan, if you take off the blue part on the top, you will see a provision for a fan, the other fan is mounted towards the bottom. My general rule of thumb is to mount all victron equipment so you can read the labels
@@jamesmason7124 I did the same. I installed a much better fan that actually pushes air.
@johnnywalker5635 What fan did you use and what size was it
Pretty sure that breaker is backwards. The flow of power is going from the charger to the batteries. That makes the charger the LINE side and the battery the LOAD side.
It’s labeled but it looks backwards from other companies, kinda irritating but it’s legit.
Duner, I saw your comment after I made the same comment. We think alike and have the same thought.
Nice job. The only thing I have to advise is, that you need to throw thw auto fuse away and change it to an old type of fuse as the auto fuse will stop working in a few weeks/months as the internel resistance will riser over time.
Thanks for mentioning that, it’s my first try using this type of fuse.
are you charging your li time lithium via your 7 way from your lead acid & alternator on your tow vehicle?
No I kept that completely disconnected. From my understanding it’s not compliant with Lithium so I just kept it out. I will get a dc to dc charger in the future to charge while driving. I’ll get that before solar since we drive so often. Thanks for watching.
@@go_on_life confused: you have to plug in your seven way plug while towing, so how did you keep that out ? while driving down the road?
sorry, I don't want to charge my lithium from my alternator but the seven way plug automatically charges the acid batteries which I will now be replacing with lithium. How do you avoid charging feature in the seven way plug when you're plugged in and towing your vehicle down the road? I hope that doesn't sound too crazy of a question
@@RVRebelGirl Not at all. On my 2020 Jayco Jayflight the 7 pin wires meet up at a little electrical box that is bolted onto the front frame of the camper. Inside there the power from the 7pin that would charge the led acid batteries was connected via a wire nut to a wire that ran toward the batteries. I disconnected that at the wire nut and just taped the wire nut off with black electrical tape. So when I am driving it is still sending power through but it stops at a wire nut.
You’re saying Lithium ion. The Batteries are Lithium iron phosphate LiFePO4. Subscribed
Thanks and I’ll keep that to a minimum 👍😉 gotta get that down.
I own a "Blue Smart Charger" from Victon...of which the LiFePo4 setting for their charger is labeled "LI-ION". What is happening here is a game of semantics. Nobody is wiring parallel/series strings of 18650 vape batteries into their RV. Apparently Lithium Ion means something completely different to the RV industry than the rest of the world. He's both RIGHT AND WRONG when he says Lithium Ion...and it's not his fault.
Nice video, be careful coiling those large cables in use. The insulation rating on cable insulation is based on its ability to dissipate heat in the cable as it passes current. Coiling cables that have current running through them can lead to insulation failure and potentially a fire.get on the web and search for coiled cable fires and you’ll see lots of pictures of melted cables that were used as they were coiled. Better to trim the cable to the length that you need and store the extra cable somewhere in your shop.
That’s a good word man. I’ll take another look at that and I see what you mean. I coiled them up so that when I sell the camper I can put another led acid back in and take my stuff with me quickly. I’ll rethink that or add longer cables again when that time comes. Lucky right now all I have is my LED lights and water pump running off the battery so there will never be a big enough load coming out of those coiled cables to get hot.
Great job - great video - completely unrelated question; can you please tell me what model/size struts were used for that bed in the video?
Hey there and thanks for watching!
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@@go_on_life Thanks so very much!!
You could have tightened up the board. My OCD would have spent more time laying it out than installing it.
I hear ya! I plan to install several more items like the solar charge controller and dc to dc charger with the appropriate fuses, wow! Imagine my brain trying to guess ahead for where those will go. If we do an inverter it will be big do it will have to go non s separate board to the left. Thanks for watching
there are so many issues with the charger sideways
So far do good 👍
@@go_on_life just be careful some models people have had overheating issues but it damages it overtime
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THE victron charger should have been mounted VERTICALLY, for HEAT Dissipation. 😮
Again, it is like this on their video, no problem. Well over a year and have traveled the country full time, charging daily. ZERO Issues.
Just good luck with those brand battery. I order 4, in two days 2 fail.
Yikes, that's nuts man. Praying we don't have the same fate.
I've got 2 in my van for 2 years, they have been rock solid.
i have 3 li time/ampertime no issues in my van
just bought a 300 AH for my travel trailer
It is unfortunately my own experience 😊
Thanks for watching