24V – 6000W – 120V/240V Split Phase Camper Solar Wiring Diagram

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This DIY camper solar wiring diagram and parts list is a high powered system capable of delivering up to 6000w of power through 120V or 240V split phase (3000w through each L1 & L2. This diagram is also capable of charging via solar at a rate of up to 2900w per charge controller added.

This diagram features:

  • Dual 3000W Inverter Charger
  • 800+ Amp Hours (@12V) of Battery Storage Capacity in a 24V Battery Bank
  • Virtually unlimited Solar Array Capacity
  • Alternator Charging (100A)
  • Shore Power Charging/Passthrough

**Disclaimer & Managing expectations** Setting up dual inverters is NOT a ‘beginner friendly’ task. It DOES require some programming via computer to sync the dual inverters so they will deliver 240V split phase properly (2x 120V legs, 180 degrees out of phase). If you don’t understand the concept of the phrase you just read (and are unwilling to learn this concept)… this setup may be a bit too advanced. That said… here are some good resources that talk about some of the nuances of dual inverter setups:

**PLEASE READ ALL USER MANUALS BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS INSTALL**


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Post Published December 10, 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

HOW TO USE THIS PAGE – VIDEO

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DIY Camper Van Wiring Diagram

DIY Camper Solar Parts – Shopping List

The list below is a consolidated parts list for this entire system (Minus the solar charging leg, as that varies greatly from system to system. If you need help designing an appropriate solar array for this system, consider joining the EXPLORIST.life private group: https://www.community.explorist.life ).

For the ‘Quantities’ in the below shopping list, each singular component is listed a quanty per each, wire is listed a quantity of feet, and heat shrink is listed as qty 1 = 2.25″.

For Example:

Qty 1 – Inverter Charger means you need to purchase 1 Inverter Charger

Qty 3 – 4/0 Wire means you need 3 feet of 4/0 wire. This may mean you need to buy 5ft from the product page

Qty 5 heat shrink means you need 5 pieces of 2.25″ heat shrink. This means you’ll need 5 x 2.25″ pieces of heat shrink for a total of 11.25″ of heat shrink.

ProductQtyLink
1/2" Black Heat Shrink38
1/2" Red Heat Shrink4
100 Amp MEGA Fuse1
100Ah Battle Born Lithium Batteries8
120V/240V Power Distribution Center - PD55K0001
150 Amp MEGA Fuse1
150A DC Breaker1
2 AWG Black Wire10
2 AWG Red Wire40
2 AWG x 1/4" Wire Lug2
2 AWG x 5/16" Wire Lug6
3/4" Black Heat Shrink24
3/4" Red Heat Shrink22
3000W Victron Multiplus 24V2
4/0 Black Wire49
4/0 Red Wire29
4/0 x 3/8" Wire Lug2
4/0 x 5/16" Wire Lug30
400 Amp ANL Fuse1
400 Amp MEGA Fuse2
50 Amp Shore Power Cord1
50 Amp Shore Power Outlet1
50A 2-Pole QO Main AC Breaker1
6 AWG Black Wire20
6 AWG Ferrule34
6 AWG Red Wire20
6 AWG x 5/16" Wire Lug6
60A AC Load Center1
Battery Interconnect Bars4
Heavy Duty ANL Fuse Holder1
Lynx Adapter2
Master Disconnect1
Victron Buck Boost 100A1
Victron MK3 USB Programming Dongle1
Victron Orion 24|12 - 70A Converter1
Victron SmartShunt1
Victron VE.Bus Cable2
Victron VE.Direct Cable3
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Camper Solar Parts Detail

The section below will tell you where each of the parts from above fits into the wiring diagram. This is quite lengthy, but if you are having trouble seeing the diagram or just want more clarification that the diagram above doesn’t deliver, hopefully this will help:

Column AColumn BColumn C

Battery Bank Wiring

This section contains all of the parts necessary to wire the battery bank together. These products include the batteries as well as the related wiring parts that you will need to make the battery to battery connections.
ProductQtyLink
100Ah Battle Born Lithium Batteries8
4/0 Red Wire9
4/0 Black Wire9
4/0 x 5/16" Wire Lug12
3/4" Red Heat Shrink10
3/4" Black Heat Shrink10
Battery Interconnect Bars4

Battery Bank to Busbars

This section contains all of the parts necessary to wire the battery bank to the main DC distribution busbar (Lynx Distributor). The busbar itself as well as the shunt for the battery monitor and fuse mounted inside to the busbar protecting the positive wire from overcurrent can be found in this section. The busbar is essentially an extension of the battery terminals and allows you to deliver power where it needs to go and houses the fuses necessary to protect the wires leaving the busbar. The Battery monitor allows you to know how full your batteries are, know how much power you are actively gaining or losing, and see the historical data of your power usage.
ProductQtyLink
Lynx Distributor2
Victron SmartShunt1
4/0 Red Wire10
4/0 Black Wire10
4/0 x 5/16" Wire Lug4
4/0 x 3/8" Wire Lug2
3/4" Red Heat Shrink4
3/4" Black Heat Shrink2
400 Amp ANL Fuse1
Heavy Duty ANL Fuse Holder1
Lynx Adapter2
Master Disconnect1

Busbar to Inverter/Charger

This section contains the Inverter Charger and all of the parts necessary to wire the Inverter Charger to the Positive and Negative busbars. The Inverter Charger allows you to re-charge your batteries from 'shore power' and also converts the 24v DC power stored in your battery bank to 120V AC power like you'd find in your standard household wall outlet. The Dual Inverter setup shown also allows 240v power to be provided to 240v appliances through a 120V/240V breaker box.
ProductQtyLink
3000W Victron Multiplus 24V2
4/0 Red Wire10
4/0 Black Wire10
4/0 Black Wire10
4/0 x 5/16" Wire Lug12
3/4" Red Heat Shrink4
3/4" Black Heat Shrink8
400 Amp MEGA Fuse2

Busbar to B2B Charger

This section contains the battery to battery charger as well as the wiring that you need to connect the battery to battery charger to the positive and negative busbars. This will allow you to charge your house battery bank from the engine alternator.
ProductQtyLink
Victron Buck Boost 100A1
2 AWG Red Wire10
2 AWG Black Wire10
2 AWG x 5/16" Wire Lug4
3/4" Red Heat Shrink2
3/4" Black Heat Shrink2
150 Amp MEGA Fuse1

B2B Charger to Alternator

This section contains all of the wiring necessary to connect the battery to battery charger to the starting battery. This will allow you to charge your house battery bank from the engine alternator.
ProductQtyLink
2 AWG Red Wire30
2 AWG x 5/16" Wire Lug2
2 AWG x 1/4" Wire Lug2
3/4" Red Heat Shrink2
150A DC Breaker1

Busbar to DC Fuse Block

This section contains the DC fuse block (which is inside of the AC-DC distribution panel) as well as the wires to connect it to the main DC distribution busbars. This will allow you to deliver power to the DC Fuse block for small branch circuits such as lights, fans, usb outlets, etc..
ProductQtyLink
120V/240V Power Distribution Center - PD55K0001
Victron Orion 24|12 - 70A Converter1
6 AWG Red Wire20
6 AWG Black Wire20
6 AWG x 5/16" Wire Lug6
6 AWG Ferrule2
1/2" Red Heat Shrink4
1/2" Black Heat Shrink8
100 Amp MEGA Fuse1

Busbar to Chassis Ground

This section includes the parts necessary to allow you to ground your negative busbar to the chassis ground. The chassis ground will be connected to the negative busbar on one side and the other side can go to a factory chassis ground or simply anywhere good metal to metal contact can be made between the wire lug and the bare metal of the body or frame of the camper.
ProductQtyLink
4/0 Black Wire10
4/0 x 5/16" Wire Lug2
3/4" Black Heat Shrink2

Shore Power to Inverter/Charger

This section includes the exterior shore power outlet and shore power cord that allows you to plug your camper into shore power as well as all of the wiring that allows you to connect the exterior shore power cord to your inverter charger. This will allow you to not only use shore power for powering your devices but also allow you to charge your batteries from shore power.
ProductQtyLink
50 Amp Shore Power Outlet1
6 AWG 4-Conductor Wire15
6 AWG Ferrule8
1/2" Black Heat Shrink6
50 Amp Shore Power Cord1

Inverter Charger to AC Distribution

This section includes the wiring necessary to connect the inverter charger to the AC side of the AC-DC power distribution panel listed in an earlier section.
ProductQtyLink
6 AWG Triplex Wire30
6 AWG Ferrule24
1/2" Black Heat Shrink24
50A 2-Pole QO Main AC Breaker1
60A AC Load Center1

System Communication

This section includes all of the parts necessary to monitor this system via the Cerbo GX.
ProductQtyLink
Cerbo GX1
GX Touch 501
Victron VE.Direct Cable3
Victron VE.Bus Cable2
Victron MK3 USB Programming Dongle1

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18 Responses

  1. I am upgrading my camper to dual 12/3000 Multiplus inverter/chargers. Each inverter will be powering it’s own set of circuits. We are off grid so the only power to the inverters will come from the batteries or Onan 5500 watt generator. We have 4,100 Watts of solar on three victron smart MPPT chargers. The generator does single phase 120volt output. I think given won’t have this ever plugged into shore power I don’t need to run split phase on the inverter/chargers and can just run them parallel. The only downside I think I have is that if we get into a situation where the generator needs to run, one multiplus will take AC input from the generator and charge while the other will simply continue to power from the batteries. Can you give me a gut check to my thinking?

    1. The single phase 120V generator would indeed feed into Multiplus on L1 and pass that power through to the L1 loads AND recharge the battery bank. The loads on L2 would indeed just come through the L2 Multiplus Inverter being pulled from battery power.

      If at all possible…I’d strongly recommend consider a 24V system like shown in this post you commented on. Attempting to pull 6000kVa from dual multiplus 12/3000’s could result in pulling nearly 500 amps from the battery bank which is more than I am comfortable with recommending. Switching to a 24V batttery bank would half that amp draw.

  2. Also, could you have used 1/0 to connect the batteries together? Everything I’ve studied says you can use smaller wire as voltage increases.

    Many thanks!

  3. Hi Nate! Did you use 4/0 wire for other technical reasons? Page 10 of the 24|3000 Multiplus manual shows that 1/0 wire is sufficient.

    1. I used 4/0 because I found people using this diagram… except using a 12V battery bank and then burning up the 1/0 wires. No, that’s not a good ‘technical’ reason, but was the best stop-gap I could come up with to keep people a bit safer. You can indeed us 1/0 for the 24v 3k multiplus.

  4. Nate, I am building 12volt dual 3k Multis system (I know 24V would have been much better) and have a question on connecting my 6-100AH Battleborn bank to a Lynx Distributor. What size wire does this need to be and if dual 4/0 is needed how would 2 of those connect to the Positive lynx bus bar and 2 grounds on to the smart shunt?

  5. A few questions arise from this:
    #1: Why go with the Dual 3K invert over the 5K Quattro(which has 120V 240V Split Phase) – other than the obvious -1K output difference
    #2: Speaking with Battleborn – they have an aversion to 24V systems, due to “balancing issues”. Thoughts?

    1. Hey Eric!

      1: The Quattro does not have 120V 240V split phase. If 120V/240V split phase input/output is desired, 2x Quattro’s would need to be used similar to the diagram on this page. There ‘was’ a 120V/240V split phase Quattro about 10 years ago; but it was discontinued at some point and is no longer available.

      2: My ‘thoughts’ are that as long as they say that “Battle Born Batteries are capable of being connected in series up to 48V” in their user manuals, it is fine. If they are TRULY averse to wiring their 12v batteries in series or series parallel to make a 24V battery bank; they would put that in their documentation.

  6. Hello, for power distribution center you suggest PD55K000 in this page. Is that the correct one because PD55K000 is 10 Dual (50Amp 240VAC)? If all it gives is 240VAC, how am I going to use the 120VAC loads? Would I just use one half of the double pole breaker?

    1. You’d just use a single breaker as opposed to a dual breaker for 120V loads. 240V split phase circuit is made up of 2x 120V circuits and you can use just one of them for 120V loads; just like in your house.

  7. Thanks for this! It helps a lot.

    In the “Battery Bank to Busbars” there is a 400a fuse, but the disconnect is only rated to 300a. Is that a concern?

  8. I’m looking for help with my build that may be similar to this. Where can I contact you for specifics to my build? Thank you for your time.

  9. I am not able to print the drawing using Adobe. The drawing would be better if you didn’t have the grid. I feel that I have wasted $9.99!

    1. Sorry you are having issues. I print each of my diagrams before they get pushed live including this one. I actually have this one printed out at 24″ x 32″ on my wall. For this reason, I have significant reason to believe that this is an issue with your computer/printer and not my diagram but I am not sure how to help you troubleshoot computer/printer problems. If you tell me more specifically what is going wrong, perhaps I can give a suggestion.

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