Interesting thread. Thanks for the tip on how much cable to use for the DCC50S. Have you bought a crimping tool & crimps?
I would like to put my LB under the driver's seat along with a DCC50S and also allow a diesel heater duct through, but I'm beginning to think it wouldn't all fit. I have a...
...instinctively going to say "no, of course not" but thinking about it there's only the live from the solar panel that actually connects to the DCC50S so I suppose it could be yes?
Just doesn't feel right and in my case I bunged a pair of 6mm2 in and connected the neutral into the neutral...
@Dellmassive when using your DCC50S, did you happen to have any issues pushing out more than 30AH sustained into the leisure lifepo4?
Something 'kill's the charge into my new 150ah lifepo4 after 20 seconds or so when the DCC50S is on the 50A setting, 1 minute or so when on the 40A setting but...
...with your electrical upgrades?
I'm looking to upgrade the factory-spec leisure battery with a 100ah eco worthy lithium battery and a renogy dcc50s dcdc charger/mppt. (picked these up with a great ebay discount last week).
Maybe a stupid question, but I wanted to check - can the existing...
...and easily accessible from the open front. One isolator is the electrical load (lights etc) and another is between the solar panel and the DCC50S.
My understanding of the DCC50S is that it should never be connected to solar without the leisure battery being connected so if you ever have to...
...gone all crunchy and burnt out inside so we're golden.
It has crossed my mind that with an isolator on the starter battery input to the Renogy DCC50S I could isolate all inputs rather than just using the LB isolator and still having a live input at the B2B... but then where do you stop...
Can you expand on this?
My AGM has finally let me down, so the Fogstar 105 is my front runner at the moment.
I have Renogy DCC50S. I do need sometimes to pull fractions of an amp for a LED nightlight. Is this a problem?
...swap the 13A plug for a 16A blue one.
This all flies in the face of us having solar and the Roamer lifepo4 battery but after the first Renogy DCC50S packed up last month while in a rain swept Cornwall it knocked my invincibility mode down a bit... quite a lot really as the fridge alone would...
I nipped to Halfords to buy a fuse & piggyback and tested the ignition signal. I found with the DCC50S you only need to give the charger a temporary ignition signal before it remains on for the duration of the time the engine is running. Neat!
...MPPT with a Renogy DCC50/30 you will reduce your choice of solar panels to those with a max 25VOC output, many 200W panels go over this VOC.
I have the Renogy DCC50S myself, with a 170W panel, the biggest I could find at the time with <25VOC. It's been big enough for us, so not an issue here.
Keep in mind that there will only be a single MPPT controller in this case so unless the panels are well matched (it's usually advised to have identical panels when doing this) you will likely find the performance of the whole array is dependent on the performance of the weakest panel. Solar...
Mine is a T5 with aircon (better alternator?) and I have the dcc50s and LB next to the rear wheel arch (LWB) just over 6.5 metres away from the SB. Seems this is too much for the voltage drop despite me only having a 1.5 metre run for the negative cable to chassis earth point underneath the LB...
...inverter gives you 230Vac as well as 12Vdc.
I've gone for Renogy gear as it's cheaper in general than Victron and can be more versatile.
Their DCC50S is a 50A DC to DC charger with a combined mppt charger giving up to 50A output from a combination of your alternator and solar, it can be...
...those who have shared their work & code! as a result I've cobbled together a ESP8266 & MAX 485 and used Arduino to read the registers from my DCC50S and output the variables dynamically to a webserver. It still needs plenty of work but it's mostly functional.
I have come across a few...
...Renogy Solar Suit case which I take away for if not close to an EHU.
I have a leisure battery under my passenger seat. Charging this I have a DCC50S but that is overkill for my 62Ahr AGM. A DCC30S would do, but I wanted to future proof myself.
I have an EHU which comes in next to the vehicle...
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