Wow, this was intimidating to take on by myself. I ended up having to trick myself into actually starting the assembly process. After months of research and planning, I had all the parts in front of me and just started crimping and connecting!

Take everything here as simply the sharing of a novice that's surprised he hasn't started an electrical fire (yet) to anyone who's trying to piece together their own system. Emphasis on novice.

Read the exhaustive walkthru here: [ Ссылка ]

Here are my top sources for information I used over and over to understand what to do with my own system: Will Prowse is a legend in this community.

Video one: [ Ссылка ]

Video two: [ Ссылка ]

Tools I used:

Electrical tape: [ Ссылка ]

Hammer crimper for larger gauge wires: [ Ссылка ]

Cable stripper for larger wires: [ Ссылка ]

Hand crimper and stripper for smaller wires: [ Ссылка ]

Cable clamps: [ Ссылка ]

Washers (for increasing surface area of certain connections): [ Ссылка ]

A pair of scissors for cutting wires (seriously)

A hammer for the hammer crimper

Wire connectors: [ Ссылка ]

Terminal connectors: [ Ссылка ]

Copper terminal connectors (I needed a few more 4AWG connectors so bought two sets of these): [ Ссылка ]

Cordless drill with bits

Wood screws for mounting everything: [ Ссылка ]

Electrical system pieces:

Let's start with the 100 amp-hour Battle Born Lithium Batteries (x2): [ Ссылка ]

Then 1ft of 2AWG (gauge) (depends on how far apart you sit your batteries from each other) red and black for connecting those batteries in parallel (cumulative amp-hour capacity): [ Ссылка ]

Then 2ft of 1/0 (1 aught) between the batteries and the main system: [ Ссылка ]

Between the battery positive cable and the bus bar designated for positive connections, a 200a breaker: [ Ссылка ]

Between that breaker and the next few pieces, 4AWG wire (I used 4AWG positive and negative wire between all the main connections - charge controller, inverter, fuse block): [ Ссылка ]

Between the positive battery cable, its breaker, and the bus bar, a master on/off switch: [ Ссылка ]

Then the bus bar! (x2 - one for positive wires and one for negative wires): [ Ссылка ]

The battery monitor system shunt goes in-line with the negative cable from the battery. The positive wire from the battery monitor attaches directly to the positive terminal of your battery: [ Ссылка ]

A 150a breaker between the positive bus bar and the inverter and fuse block: [ Ссылка ]

A 40a breaker between positive of the charge controller and positive bus bar: [ Ссылка ]

A 2200 Pure Sine Wave inverter: [ Ссылка ]

My fuse block (where all my DC loads are connected): [ Ссылка ]

The ATO fuses to go into that fuse block (they don't come with the fuse block): [ Ссылка ]

Now let's talk solar:

200watt Newpowa panel (x2): [ Ссылка ]

MC4 connectors for wiring panels in parallel (cumulative amp-hour capacity): [ Ссылка ]

20ft of solar extension cables from MC4's through the roof (watch that video here: [ Ссылка ]) and to the charge controller: [ Ссылка ]

35a Solar Charge Controller sized for 400 watts of solar: [ Ссылка ]

Now let's talk shore power:

The 15a regular household plug port on the outside of the van: [ Ссылка ]

The 15a to 30a adapter in case I need to attach to a 30a post (most common in campsites): [ Ссылка ]

The 30a battery to battery charger that takes power from plugged-in source and gives it to my battery system (since I have 200ah of battery bank capacity, I could go up to. 100a of solar charge setup but I don't need a system that charges that fast so I went with 30a): [ Ссылка ]

8AWG red and black wire: [ Ссылка ]

40a breaker between the battery to battery charger and the positive bus bar: [ Ссылка ]

Now let's talk battery isolator (car battery charging my system):

4AWG positive cable from the car positive terminal (under the driver seat in a Ford Transit) to a breaker: [ Ссылка ]

A 150a breaker between that red wire and the battery isolator: [ Ссылка ]

Then the 140a battery isolator: [ Ссылка ]

Music: [ Ссылка ]

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