how the lithium house banks are going updates ?

Just wanted to hear any info on lithium house banks. how is every ones going ?

To be honest I no nothing about them yet But hopefully sometime next year I will once I have her sailing. But I need to start somewhere .
Without knowing Id guess a existing wind gen could be connected into a Life po4 house bank with some sort of suitable charge controller.
The same for solar panels at the moment sitting on the hard I have a 60 watt semi flexible panel wired to a Jaycar type MPPT 340 watt controler.
Phil at Fleming wind vanes is making me a solar arch which has stern rails built in plus poles for two wind gens.
Should make an outrageous H28 but need the power for living aboard. Plus some shade in the cockpit up north as well

That might be a really old lithium battery. I don't think they are built like that anymore. The ones I see all seem to have the single cells stacked with aluminium end plates. I have bought a few of the cells off eBay to power phone chargers/torches etc. The eBay seller just buys new batteries and tears them down and sells the individual cells. The lithium battery in my race car is just charged by the Nippon Denso alternator [Suzuki Swift/daihatsu etc] or an ordinary $5 2 amp battery charger from a garage sale. Brilliant bit of kit. For my yacht I have two lead acid batteries mounted low which are part of the ballast. I would not hesitate to install lithium batteries else where in the yacht where power is required, chart table etc for electronics.

The battery has it's own circuit. The battery just floats at 13.8v.

Found these images of the batteries and regulator if anyone is interested.The small display above the regulator is the cell monitor.

HI HG,
My battery bank (400ah) has been great , after a month of the boat being left at marina to fend for itself ( no shore power) , I plugged the battery charger in and found the batteries to be at ~90% , we leave the Indel upright 12 volt fridge freezer on 24/7 and bilge pumps live. we spend 21 days on it in November and only charged up batteries from Generator while running water maker .Built in BMS controls everything, we just had to adjust the solar panel regulator to limit the volts coming in... At this point in time cannot fault the lithium's on anything ,including running anchor windless and Samsung 12 volt microwave.

I basically followed this guy on Nimrods blog.. psyberspace.com.au/lithium.html and EV Works were easy to deal with, my batteries came already made up in 2 x 200hr packages which made it real easy .

With 300 hr system you will be laughing.... you won't regret it that's for sure

Thank you very much gentlemen

HI hg,
sorry I have taken so long to respond but I missed your question when I last read your post.
The solar panes are 3 X 80 watt BP panels that are probably at least 10 to 12 years old. They are wired in parallel as per the original installation by the previous owner who had it connected to a fairly basic 12 v (nom) solarex controller.
I upgraded to the present regulator when I installed the LiFePo4 batteries a couple of years ago. The panels put out about 19 volts from memory on a good day but the system would probably work better if the panels were wired in series which would give them an output of approx 50 volts. This will give better harvesting of panel output via the MPPT controller and enable charging earlier in the morning and later at afternoons when you would still get a series output greater than 13 volt to enable charging if required.
I think the regulator was the best I could find when I did my research a couple of years ago. I have my fridge connected thru the load circuit on the controller and it has a disconnect function if the battery voltage drops below the preprogrammed voltage.
It also has a datalogging capability which enables me to log and also download the daily total AH in and AH out as well as max and min voltage each day.
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Happy to give you a call to further discuss if I can be of any help.

Cheers