Free guide to electrical wiring
Date Posted:4 September 2019
Guide to electrical wiring of systems containing batteries, inverters and chargers
Victron’s 'Wiring Unlimited' booket is all about electrical wiring of systems containing batteries, inverters, chargers and inverter/chargers and assists the reader to understand the basic principles behind certain electrical concepts and how they apply to Victron Energy products and the installation of such products.
Topics covered:
- Ohm’s Law
- Power
- Conductivity and resistance
- Current, cable resistance and voltage drop
- Negative effects of cable voltage drop
- Ripple
- Battery bank wiring
- Battery bank
- Large battery banks
- Parallel battery bank wiring
- Battery bank balancing
- Battery bank midpoint
- DC wiring
- Select the right cable
- Busbars
- Cable connections
- Fuses and circuit breakers
- DC isolation switches
- Shunt
- Parallel and/or 3 phase system DC wiring
Victron schematic parallel and or 3 phase sys DC wiring (Parallel – Measuring DC imbalance)
- Large system busbars
- Voltage sensing and compensation
- Solar panels
- Communication wiring
- Data signals
- Interference
- Communication cables and connector types
- Interfaces
- AC wiring
- Power generation
- Distribution networks
- System current VA and Watt
- AC wiring
- Fuses and circuit breakers
- AC bypass switch
- Special considerations for AC wiring of parallel and/or 3 phase inverter/chargers
- Ground, earth and electrical safety
- Electrical safety
- Earth wiring
- RCD
- Neutral to earth link in inverters and in inverter/chargers
- Mobile installations
- Isolation and grounding of Victron Equipment
- System grounding
- Galvanic corrosion
- Preventing galvanic corrosion
- The galvanic isolator
- The isolation transformer