I'll dig up a photo of the battery / electronics and post it here soon. To give you an overview of it:
- 300W of flexible solar panels (~$90/pop, tend to get about 1.5kWh on great sunny days, enough to power my fan + fridge without having to run the van)
- Victron MPPT charge controller (pretty impressed by their quality, and their app that talks to the controller over bluetooth, nothing comes close to them in simplicity of setup)
- Victron battery to battery charger without ground isolation (gets triggered by engine hot signal, so I don't drain the van battery)
- 2000W cheap inverter for running instantpot / magicbullet. I prefer to have DC appliances, but hard to find DC pressure cooker / mixers
- couple of 12v regulators for 12vdc devices
- ofc the BYD Lifepo battery, I haven't deep cycled this a ton, but my suspicion is that it's around 3.5kWH usable capacity.
I plan to add a cheap 360 camera system from aliexpress and run it off the aux battery mainly for security monitoring around the vehicle, the standard backup cams on any 2017+ vans are decent. If I get to it, it'd be interesting to get a Pi in there with OBD breakout to read in car data / gimmick.
I plan to add a cheap 360 camera system from aliexpress and run it off the aux battery mainly for security monitoring around the vehicle, the standard backup cams on any 2017+ vans are decent. If I get to it, it'd be interesting to get a Pi in there with OBD breakout to read in car data / gimmick.