You can add a Victron, Furrion, or other brand fairly easily if you would like to. Some people add them directly to the battery box and have the display inside the front compartment area. It is only really a use if you are monitoring your battery while off the power grid boondocking so you can see about where your voltage stands or percent charge. Otherwise, it is usually 95% or higher just sitting in my driveway between trips.
This one is, yes. You have to select the battery type on the controller. My stock converter in the camper is not, so when plugged into shore power the main camper converter would not be compatable. I would have to change that if I went lithium. So be sure to check both if you are considering it.
Enjoyed your video and information. I have an imagine 22MLE. I would like to install a disconnect breaker between my solar panel and the charge controller. My manual actually shows a breaker able to interrupt the circuit between the roof solar panel and before a fuse going to the controller. My wiring is a little hard to trace. Can you give me any recommendations on where these wires can be located? How did you trace yours? Thanks
if you look at your manual you will also see a diagram on which wires go to the roof and which to the battery from the back of the controller. I verified that and then used those wires to modify. I was able to pull the one wire direct to the breaker, and then used a new section of wire from the breaker to the controller.
@@SchafferTwins Thanks, I like the way you installed your breaker on the docking panel, good job with that. Did you ever find the fuse in the circuit? If so, did you use its location to determine your breaker location? I have traced wires, but I can’t find one yet. I’d surely like to know in case I have to replace it. So in my controller manual, it shows the breaker on Two wires not one. Looks like you are using one wire. Also I have been getting feedback from the GD forum and one actually included a diagram different from the one in my manual - it shows the breaker across one wire. On your forward battery box disconnect - did you install it on the battery negative lead? Thanks
@@williamsullivan7177 the breaker is surface mounted, but yes, I did have the side panel off so that I could get the wires and pull them up over the top of the panel to access the breaker terminals. I can get you more photos or info if you would like.
@@SchafferTwins I only see one wire coming into your disconnect breaker. Did you splice into one or two wires. The two wires I believe I need to use are colored solid red and red & black. I called GD this morning and they said I don’t have fuses installed on my solar system. I did trace out two fuses under the frame on the positive battery lead. GD says one goes to the refrigerator and one to the tongue jack. Nice to know . Thanks, hope I’m not bugging you. By the way, I laid my docking panel back to replace the city water inlet, outdoor shower faucet and associated cone washers to fix leaks. Not sure I want to pull it again even though I modified it to allow access to mounting screws from the outside
Excellent presentation-thanks. Question: with your battery disconnect switch installed up front, does that also disconnect the solar charge controller input to the batteries? I know that the SCC shouldn’t be operated without being connected to the batts, so there must be a way to wire this disconnect switch so that it only shuts off battery output to the coach. I’d like to install a disconnect switch, but this my only concern. Thoughts?
I have 2 battery disconnects. (1) you see on this panel is the factory disconnect which really turns off the 12V lighting and ceiling fan, but the fridge and LP detector remain on. That also does not disconnect the SCC to the main batteries. The (2nd) disconnect I have is one I installed on the main battery box. This shuts everything off completely when I am storing at home for a long time or if I have to check the water levels on my battery's.
Finally someone who can explain in simple term great job thank you🎉
Thanks!
Great video.... Though you should be disconnecting both Negative and Positive sides of your panel array
interesting. The manual shows the (+) side as the option. ( cdn.accentuate.io/1928957001817/5237057552473/IM-FEN00013_V2.0_EN-(1)-v1644464325599.pdf )
We have a 2022 2800BH it has the one Furrion 165watt solar panel But does not have the battery monitor
You can add a Victron, Furrion, or other brand fairly easily if you would like to. Some people add them directly to the battery box and have the display inside the front compartment area. It is only really a use if you are monitoring your battery while off the power grid boondocking so you can see about where your voltage stands or percent charge. Otherwise, it is usually 95% or higher just sitting in my driveway between trips.
Is the charge controller lithium compatible?
This one is, yes. You have to select the battery type on the controller. My stock converter in the camper is not, so when plugged into shore power the main camper converter would not be compatable. I would have to change that if I went lithium. So be sure to check both if you are considering it.
What is the stock converter
Enjoyed your video and information. I have an imagine 22MLE. I would like to install a disconnect breaker between my solar panel and the charge controller. My manual actually shows a breaker able to interrupt the circuit between the roof solar panel and before a fuse going to the controller. My wiring is a little hard to trace. Can you give me any recommendations on where these wires can be located? How did you trace yours? Thanks
if you look at your manual you will also see a diagram on which wires go to the roof and which to the battery from the back of the controller. I verified that and then used those wires to modify. I was able to pull the one wire direct to the breaker, and then used a new section of wire from the breaker to the controller.
@@SchafferTwins Thanks, I like the way you installed your breaker on the docking panel, good job with that. Did you ever find the fuse in the circuit? If so, did you use its location to determine your breaker location? I have traced wires, but I can’t find one yet. I’d surely like to know in case I have to replace it. So in my controller manual, it shows the breaker on Two wires not one. Looks like you are using one wire. Also I have been getting feedback from the GD forum and one actually included a diagram different from the one in my manual - it shows the breaker across one wire. On your forward battery box disconnect - did you install it on the battery negative lead? Thanks
You must have removed the panel to put the breaker there. It’s only about a 5” space behind mine and impossible to reach anything without removing it
@@williamsullivan7177 the breaker is surface mounted, but yes, I did have the side panel off so that I could get the wires and pull them up over the top of the panel to access the breaker terminals. I can get you more photos or info if you would like.
@@SchafferTwins I only see one wire coming into your disconnect breaker. Did you splice into one or two wires. The two wires I believe I need to use are colored solid red and red & black. I called GD this morning and they said I don’t have fuses installed on my solar system. I did trace out two fuses under the frame on the positive battery lead. GD says one goes to the refrigerator and one to the tongue jack. Nice to know . Thanks, hope I’m not bugging you. By the way, I laid my docking panel back to replace the city water inlet, outdoor shower faucet and associated cone washers to fix leaks. Not sure I want to pull it again even though I modified it to allow access to mounting screws from the outside
Excellent presentation-thanks. Question: with your battery disconnect switch installed up front, does that also disconnect the solar charge controller input to the batteries? I know that the SCC shouldn’t be operated without being connected to the batts, so there must be a way to wire this disconnect switch so that it only shuts off battery output to the coach. I’d like to install a disconnect switch, but this my only concern. Thoughts?
I have 2 battery disconnects. (1) you see on this panel is the factory disconnect which really turns off the 12V lighting and ceiling fan, but the fridge and LP detector remain on. That also does not disconnect the SCC to the main batteries. The (2nd) disconnect I have is one I installed on the main battery box. This shuts everything off completely when I am storing at home for a long time or if I have to check the water levels on my battery's.
Thanks.. Very helpful
Nice video, but you didn't explain how to turn on and set the controller.