Installing a house battery

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You see the wire going from the fuse block to be positive in the pic? That's the wire. It will power all aux circuits like the one up on the roof, the one in the foot well etc.

My starlink is on this circuit and that is what i wanted on my lithium battery

 

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I think this is a clearer picture and i think i wasn't very clear in my prior reply.

This ahows that i lifted the wire from the last fuse and hardwired it to the battery instead of the fuse block. I used ring terminals and i could have used an isolated screw in fuse but i didn't have one so i used ring terminals with a nut and bolt.

I isolated them with electric taoe and kept them in the fuse box to protect them from abrasions. I use heatshrink tube with glue over the ring terminals base for extra security.

I wired this to an 80amp fuse on the battery. This way the high load auxiliary circuits are powered by the lithium battery but they are still controlled by the main power switch in the load panel plus each circuit switch. This only controls the auxillary circuits, but that's the one I'm most interested in since i have my radio and my starlink on those circuits. I also have the fridge connected to a different fuse block that is also connected to the battery. My battery has a builtin battery manager capping power out to 100A.

If i was super serious i would have installed bigger battery, there is a battery that is 315Ah that i would have picked and it has 200A continuous output. But for me right now this works pretty well.

 

[Brad@SuperiorCO]

I think this is a clearer picture and i think i wasn't very clear in my prior reply.

This ahows that i lifted the wire from the last fuse and hardwired it to the battery instead of the fuse block. I used ring terminals and i could have used an isolated screw in fuse but i didn't have one so i used ring terminals with a nut and bolt.

I isolated them with electric taoe and kept them in the fuse box to protect them from abrasions. I use heatshrink tube with glue over the ring terminals base for extra security.

I wired this to an 80amp fuse on the battery. This way the high load auxiliary circuits are powered by the lithium battery but they are still controlled by the main power switch in the load panel plus each circuit switch. This only controls the auxillary circuits, but that's the one I'm most interested in since i have my radio and my starlink on those circuits. I also have the fridge connected to a different fuse block that is also connected to the battery. My battery has a builtin battery manager capping power out to 100A.

If i was super serious i would have installed bigger battery, there is a battery that is 315Ah that i would have picked and it has 200A continuous output. But for me right now this works pretty well.

Thanks for the new picture. I did understand your previous description, it finally clicked in my brain. I was thinking it was much more complicated.
I didn't get to it today as I had to take care of my grandsons, but I will get to it in the next few weeks. I do have a fuse block reserved for this that already has the 80A fuse in it, so I just need to build a cable and get it done.
Thanks for the help.