We decided to put together a system with 2 of Renogy's 100 amp-hour iron phosphate batteries, powered by a few Renogy 100 watt, 12 volt solar panels, a 2,000 watt pure sine wave inverter / AC charger, with one of Renogy's 50 amp DC chargers to keep everything playing nicely and charged up.
From that starting point, we drew up a system design for our specific build and created a component list. Renogy sent over the big building blocks from its catalog and we ordered the rest of the components from Amazon and our local hardware store, Lowes.
These two batteries store the power generated from the solar panels and the vehicle’s onboard power system, pushing it back out through the inverter and DC circuits when the time comes to use the power. In our system-on-a-pallet configuration, the batteries will live in a corner of the pallet, but they would typically be stashed away in the back of a trunk, under a seat, or in the bottom of a cabinet.
Solar panels are sexy, and ideally we would love to power not only our car camping setup, but to actually use solar to recharge the car when road tripping. With a system of this size and in a car camper the size of our Tesla Model Y, it’s really not practical without dedicating and unreasonable amount of surface area to the solar system.
Special tools are required to cut thick wire and to crimp the terminals on each end. We found it best to lay out the components where they would probably end up, but not to fasten them down until they were wired up. This allowed me to fine tune the position of each component as the stiff wiring was added, and made for a much easier install.
Stay tuned for part 2 of this review to see power being produced by the system being put to use as we dive deep into Renogy’s connectivity and power management solutions.Comparing a component-based DIY battery systems like this to an all-in-one portable power station is the obvious decision, so let’s dig into how the two compare.
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