T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Socialpath complete electrical system

Friday, July 27, 2012

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Socialpath complete electrical system

The green junction box is exactly that just a safety fuse junction box up to 500a. What it would handle would best be asked of Victron. The product page is:

http://www.victronenergy.com/dc-distribution-systems/dc-distribution-systems/

The solar controller(s) would connect to the DC side, just like your DC generator. There is no issue having multiply chargers on one battery pack. If you have solar and wind chances are they would both have different controllers charging the batters along with the shore power charger. You already have two, your DC generator is one charger and the shore power charger is charger number two. The solar charger would be charger three.

The Quattro is an inverter/charger/booster/transfer-switch all in one. You would not need a separate charger. There separate charger that works at 48voltes is called the Skylla-TG. You could get there separate inverters and chargers and make a Quattro in parts, if you really wanted to. It would just be more flexible/complex.

The the voltage step up/down is done by the isolator/auto transformer, not the inverter. The inverter corrects the hertz. You would need both to use US and Euro power.

http://www.victronenergy.com/isolation-transformers/isolation-transformers-2000va-3600va-7000va/

Victron has a lot of good equipment I plan on using a far bit of it on my boat. But Outback and Midnight make better solar controllers, these operate on the DC side and can be mixed with the Victron inverters chargers. They have a lot of possible scenarios covered over at the bottom of each product page look through that stuff as well as there wiring diagram page, lot of good stuff there:

http://www.victronenergy.com/support-and-downloads/wiring-diagrams

On Jul 27, 2012, at 7:43 AM, "Tim" <cordestim@yahoo.com> wrote:

Thank you for the links James. I like the Quattro and DC Genset diagram.

What is the green "junction" box in the diagram? Is this a charge controller? Would it be able to handle the amp draw needed to run the electric drives?

For the solar panel charge controller. Where does this connect into the system?

I looked at the Quattro line from Victron. As you mentioned, it has a voltage input range of 187-265 VAC. It doesn't accept the 115/120V. Price is $2,568. plus isolation transformer.

Victron doesn't have a Phoenix charger in 48V. The Victron Phoenix line does have 24V chargers that accept all shore power voltages and frequencies. It also accepts DC up to 400V. Cost is about $750 per charger. One charger in each hull would shorten the cable between the battery and charger. It could be used to control the DC generator output also.

Is it possible to split a 48V bank to charge it? And be able to run the 48V electric drives at the same time? Or charge each 12V battery individually in the bank?

Regards.