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[Boris7]

I have 330w solar on the roof running into 200ah lithium, then 120w solar on the roof running into an EcoFlow Delta Max 2, then 440w portable bifacial solar (which is much more effective than the roof solar) also running to the Delta Max 2. the Delta Max 2 has 2 extra batteries so all in all I have 704ah of battery and 890w of solar.

Interestingly the EcoFlow 504ah and 440w solar was very cheap compared to the van based lithium and solar, this was because
A, I bought the van based kit a few years back and
B, EcoFlow prices fluctuate and if you time it right and think it though there are deals to be had.

 

[wildebus]

Quite surprising what you can squeeze on the roof of a van

With the big lump at the front of my Motorhome, I only have 3.5M of flat space available. Take away a large rooflight and two vents plus a satellite dish, then a Terrestial TV Ariel and 5G Antenna and still room for 450W of panels.

I was going to have the first 3 panels tiltable but TBH decided against as I knew I would never be arsed to tilt, plus having to have the van always pointing in the right direction to make it worthwhile made it a non-starter for my "fit and forget" philosophy.
Same really with portable panels. I did have a set but after going to move them every 30 minutes to optimize the harvest .... nah, not for me.
I'll stick with a biggish B2B setup and my 620Ah Lead/Lithium Setup (the Leads are now four and half years old and still have as much capacity as when I first installed them).

 

[Sid]

Sorry Barry I was talking about new vans, not older vans.
My van came with lithium compatible mains and B2B charger, the lithium batteries were literally drop in. You would be hard pushed to buy a charger today that is not lithium compatible, yet as standard 90% plus of vans are fitted with obsolete lead batteries, or customers are ripped off for lithium. The advantages of lithium are so overwhelming that not fitting them as standard today is ridiculous. Vans costing north of £100,000 are being fitted with lead batteries.
No Barry my van conversion has nowhere I could fit this beast, and quite frankly for what we do I really don’t need it. Our 200ah set up has never went below 80% in summer and 40% in winter. And with the new Victron 50amp B2B I fitted last month this will greatly improve things in winter. But if I had a compressor fridge I would fit another two 100ah batteries under the passenger seat, I already have a victron inverter under the drivers seat.

I doubt you would need additional capacity to run a compressor fridge. I recently replaced our 3 way with an identical sized Thetford comp' fridge and it use next to nothing, less than the hifi unit! The big issue with the 3 way is the chronic inefficiency, on 12V the fridge would use over 80% of the b2b rendering the output nigh on useless.

 

[jimbohorlicks]

That's one big battery. 48 kgs. Jesus I wouldn't be able to pick that up now.
We have 2x195w bifacial panels feeding 3x100ah lithium and 2x100watt panels feeding 2x100ah lithium battery banks.plus a portable 200watt set of panels which we can slide onto our awning rail channel and feed either of the 2 battery banks. I bought a S/Hand 30amp b2b but not fitted it yet.
Upgraded to a 2000w renogy inverter from the 300ah and kept my older 1500 inverter from the 200ah batteries.
Just bought an induction hob to try out as the 900 airfryer works a treat. Toaster kettle,slow cooker. Deisel heater. I just need to try the 3 way fridge running off the inverter once the batteries are fully charged.

 

[trevskoda]

Temu today, price reduction.