In addition, the manual emphasizes the desirability of having large and short wires to the battery. Size 0000 and less than 10 feet is recommended for the 12 volt model.. They mention the need to accommodate high surge currents.
Personally I have about 8 feet of 000. I also have a three-phase, 100 A/leg, surface mount circuit breaker in that line. It handles all loads we use except if we use the microwave and then turn on the toaster oven. Then it will trip. I guess it trips well below the rated inverter load of 2500 watts. It may be helpful to cross-connect the battery bank. That is, connecting all terminals at the same voltage together. So if you have 4 six-volt batteries in series/parellel you would connect the two negatives in the minus feed as well as the two positive terminals together, pretty much SOP, but in addition one would also connect the two jumpers together that connect each pair of batteries in series. In theory this serves to help keep the cells all working together better by reducing the effects of small differences between cells. If you had individual cells then all jumpers at the same voltage level would be connected together. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
