Guidance on a possible 200ah setup?

[roooms]

I’m looking at a renogy setup for my lowered seat base as their new mini 100ah batteries are smaller than most.

Does this seem like a reasonable configuration for the price? I’d sell the free MPPT as that’s just thrown in when you spend £600.

Should I be looking at something else?

 

[Dellmassive]

Very good price for what you're getting

 

[roooms]

That was enough to convince me. Thanks

 

[apple]

That was enough to convince me. Thanks

I'm looking at doing something similar. Does all this fit under the drivers seat with any issues?

 

[roooms]

I'm looking at doing something similar. Does all this fit under the drivers seat with any issues?

My setup is a bit unique so difficult to confirm 100% and here's why...

I have a Jennings "lowered" seat base designed to allow a swivel base to be fitted without adding height. I think this is about 30mm lower than normal. I then have some seat adapters that allow VW Tiguan (and other VAG car) seats with wider rails to be fitted. These add back some height (I think about 30 mm).

So I think I'm at about stock seat base height. With that configuration, the two Renogy core mini batteries fit upright under my seat, but there is zero spare height/clearance. The seat cross-beam that is part of the rail slider mechanism just clips the rubber terminal covers on the first battery if I'm adjusting it back and forward. I'm ok with that as the covers are rubber and I don't regularly adjust the seat once it's in position.

Also note that the dedicated MPPT was included free in the bundle and I'm not planning to use that as the DC-DC has a built-in MPPT.

Here's a picture of the way I installed everything, but I just can't guarantee they would fit in a standard base.

 

[Dellmassive]

Where's the main battery fuses?

 

[JumpShip]

Love the idea of this set up rooms , does the spec of these batteries compare to say that of the fogstar drift 105ah that a lot of people go for?

 

[roooms]

Where's the main battery fuses?

It's in that mess of wiring to the left of the batteries. You can just see it in this picture. So the wiring between the starter battery and DCDC has an 80A midi fuse at each end.

 

[roooms]

Love the idea of this set up rooms , does the spec of these batteries compare to say that of the fogstar drift 105ah that a lot of people go for?

I think the drift 105 has more features. Probably the drift eco 100 is comparable for features but then it's slightly bigger.

The renogy 100 core minis are 229 x 138 x 213 mm / 9.02 x 5.43 x 8.39 in.

The fogstars (both 100 and 105) are 260mm x 168mm x 209mm.