Slide out access to batteries - For T1

[Grandad]

What CAD package?

Google Sketchup.

Cheers
Jim

[T1 Terry]

Wow, Margaret will go all goo goo over your sketches Batteries only on the slide out. The small cables for cell monitoring are inside a second plastic sheath so no issues with small wires getting damaged etc. Normal 0 gauge battery cable will be fine for the job because it's not like it will be a continually moving process machine, just the occasional access .... well a lot more times when you first take delivery showing everyone, but it slows down after a while
The control box incorporates the battery isolation, so no need for an access way to a switch, but access to where the inverter, charger, DC to DC charger control box and tunnel heatsink will be necessary for resetting the battery isolator after the first time you forget to turn something off. Generally only happens with a 3 way fridge and it gets left on 12v after a long drive home, but the van parked under cover with the fridge and inverter still running will do it too, just takes a bit longer
I need a pathway from the area you want to mount the Dingo, Victron BMV and second Junsi to where you will mount the controlbox so I can thread the 13 core cable and data cable to run everything. Only small cables, the 13 core cable is about the diameter of a 15 amp 240vac cable to give you an idea of size.
Yes, you will need two holes in the area where the controlbox etc will live, one up high in a corner, 80mm diameter so a fan can be fitted, one down low close to the floor at the opposite corner. The fan will be controlled by the same thermostats on the tunnel heat sink, if it reaches 50*C (give or take a few degrees) the fans turn on and 5*C lower they turn off, all automatic as is every thing in the system. Alarms sound if something has been detected that was outside the control of the system and if you aren't there to hear them, the final step is to isolate the battery to save it from damage. The stuff in the fridge might suffer, but cheaper to replace than the batteries. We can even add in a two stage system shut down, one shuts off non essential loads leaving the remaining battery capacity to power the fridge and a huffer puffer machine if you have one of them that runs on 12v.

Warning, the door opening to the battery slide out needs to be bigger than the battery tray so both the slide rollers and the door locking mechanism fits. This has been one of the major time consumers on Vic's job, making the door latch functional. Missed adding the clearance the Avida type door catches require when calculating the max battery pack width and length. I sorted it but it did involve a bit of jiggery pockery type engineering
All will be revealed by the end of the week end hopefully .... yeah, no long week end for the wicked or the flogged unpaid worker of the self employed

T1 Terry

[Vik351]

"yeah, no long week end for the wicked or the flogged unpaid worker of the self employed "

I have a cat of nine tails still unpacked...!!!

Should I pop down with it...???

vik...

[T1 Terry]

"yeah, no long week end for the wicked or the flogged unpaid worker of the self employed "

I have a cat of nine tails still unpacked...!!!

Should I pop down with it...???

vik...

I thought you said you'd pack up all the bedroom stuff
I'm keen on the 150 lashes, but more the stuff in bottles or on tap than those administered with a cat o nine tails

[Grandad]

Thank you Terry,
It'll take me reading everything a few times to fully digest it all but I think I've got most of it.
I'll come back with specific questions later on anything I want to double check with you. I can think of a few now but i'll wait and think about it some more.

.... yeah, no long week end for the wicked or the flogged unpaid worker of the self employed

As someone who has been self employed for most of my life I can tell you that getting the work/life balance right is the trickiest thing to get right. You've only been at this for a relatively short time so I can tell you it does get better. One day you say to yourself, "Stuff this!" and your mind starts working a different way.

As to the "flogged unpaid worker" you should keep in mind that generally, if anyone who sells their own labour such as you and just about every tradesman does, gets paid for 60% of the work you actually do, you are doing INCREDIBLY well. That's a target, not a assumed given. Few reach it.
Much less than that is to be expected for the first decade or so.

Does that cheer you up?

Cheers
Jim

[T1 Terry]

I think I'd be doing well if Margaret paid me for 1% of the work I do After 12 yrs as owner/flogged worker of an automotive workshop, I'm wondering why I did this to myself again, but with even less pay each week, but the other benefits are a lot better. At least we own it all so not paying rent and a bank loan as well as a mortgage, so that makes life easier No point in giving me money anyway, I just buy more vehicles


T1 Terry

[Vik351]

"No point in giving me money anyway, I just buy more vehicles "

There it is... I now have it in writing...!!!

vik...

[T1 Terry]

"No point in giving me money anyway, I just buy more vehicles "

There it is... I now have it in writing...!!!

vik...

It is Margaret you have to deal with Vic, it is her business and her workshop after all I just do the designing and a lot of the hands on stuff, although to her great credit, Margaret is stepping up to the task and taking some of the bits that really torture me so the recovery time between jobs isn't so severe.
so, it is Margaret you have to convince she doesn't need money ..... I don't like ya chances

[Vik351]

"No point in giving me money anyway, I just buy more vehicles "

There it is... I now have it in writing...!!!

vik...

It is Margaret you have to deal with Vic, it is her business and her workshop after all I just do the designing and a lot of the hands on stuff, although to her great credit, Margaret is stepping up to the task and taking some of the bits that really torture me so the recovery time between jobs isn't so severe.
so, it is Margaret you have to convince she doesn't need money ..... I don't like ya chances

Now How did I figure that...???

You got a date planned so we can fill the fridge with beer...???

And butter she said...

vik... homeless...

[Mrcoolabah1au]

Wow yes ok thanks for that great idea must do to mine were and how need more information