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…
Category: Lithium House Battery
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…