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Category: Lithium House Battery

Posted on June 14, 2017June 14, 2017

Lithium Batteries and Upgrading the 12V DC Power System

Last fall, I wrote about installing a PC power supply to power the remaining 12V DC loads in my RV, but that’s getting replaced with a DC-DC converter.  The power…

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Posted on October 24, 2016October 24, 2016

More Electrical Changes

Last time I talked about this project, I left you hanging with the lead acid batteries from the old house power system gone, and the generator connected to the chassis…

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Posted on August 14, 2016September 28, 2016

Time to unload some dead weight!

And by that, I’m talking about the rest of the old 12V to its final resting place–getting rid of the 6V batteries, and re-purposing the spot they’ll leave behind.  Sounds…

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Posted on July 20, 2016October 24, 2016

My New Favorite Multimeter, and Measuring Inverter and Charging Efficiency

A little while back, I posted a short writeup on a plug-in ammeter I’ve used to measure current on circuits with standard ATO blade-style fuses.  When running through trying to…

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Posted on July 13, 2016

Having a Little Fun with Lithium Batteries

This amounts to a bit of a side project, but provides a platform for really testing what the Volt lithium ion batteries are capable of.  You can tell by the…

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Posted on April 24, 2016

Spoiler Alert!

So it has been quite a while since I’ve posted anything on the lithium battery project.  I had a week of dry camping sneaking up on me, and made a…

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Posted on February 24, 2016July 17, 2016

Buying the Hardware: Inverters

If you’ve followed this project from the beginning, you know that one of the reasons I wanted to go to a 48V DC system was for generating AC power.  At…

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Posted on February 22, 2016February 22, 2016

Buying the Hardware: Battery Monitoring/Charging

I mentioned in the previous post that a new battery  monitoring system was going to be built to allow use of run-of-the-mill charging equipment, and that it’s cost would be…

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Posted on February 18, 2016February 18, 2016

Buying the Hardware

Here’s where things start to get pretty interesting–and where money really starts leaving never to be seen again.  I’ve talked briefly about the battery pack itself, and still plan to…

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Posted on January 22, 2016January 26, 2016

What am I trying to accomplish?

It’s probably about time to talk about what I’m trying to accomplish with this project, and why I didn’t just replace my aging lead acid batteries.  That would have been…

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