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I have a Victron 30A B2B the shunt shows it charging the Fogstar Drift 230ah at 28 amps when the battery is a bit discharged, I do have a 200ah alternator though.I've got a Victron 30A B2B. Didn't realise how much the fridge was going to gobble of that (10A give or take). Wish I'd gone for the 50A B2B now.
The fridge will work perfectly well from the alternator output, same as the vehicle lights, wipers etc work. You could use a simple fridge relay, powered from the starter battery/alternator, triggered by the D+ signal when the engine starts. If it's only 10A to 15A, a standard 30A relay is fine. There is no need to use the boosted output from the B2B to run the fridge, it's a waste, better to reserve all that boosted power for charging the leisure battery.I've got a Victron 30A B2B. Didn't realise how much the fridge was going to gobble of that (10A give or take). Wish I'd gone for the 50A B2B now.
Don't you have a Shaudt battery booster on your compactline like I do which should run the fridge? We have a 50A plus the Shaudt unit which adds about 10-15A to the Victron B2B (which only came out this year).I've got a Victron 30A B2B. Didn't realise how much the fridge was going to gobble of that (10A give or take). Wish I'd gone for the 50A B2B now.
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Glad you’ve got it sorted. It takes a while to get familiar with the new system but you will find it a HUGE improvement over your previous setup. Happy journeysThanks offagen, just been in touch with offgrid and it's all working, just didn't understand how it all worked. You are correct though, when I started the engine the Orion XS came to life, and started charging the batteries.
After having about 90amp total usage in our previous Hymer, this is a revelation having 111amps spare in morning ! And batteries were only charged to 125amps yesterday.