I have my secondary house battery system built around an ArkPak 730 with a 100 amp/hr BattleBorn LiFePO4 Battery which has generally been working great. I use all of the terminal connections, 50 amp anderson plugs, and available plugs/ports (120v, USB, cigarette plugs) which works out perfectly for me. However, I feel like I would like to upgrade to accommodate more battery capacity which leaves me with a few options:
1. Try to find a marginally larger LiFePO4 battery that can fit in the ArkPak (probably 130 amp/hr max)
2. Try to wire in a second 100 amp/hr battery (display would always be wrong but other than that could be workable)
3. Start from scratch and build my own battery box + charge controller + inverter + terminals/plugs/ports, etc.
I would be curious about what gear folks would recommend as the best for the later option. I think I'd like to buy a couple of these Renogy 170 amp/hr LiFePO4 batteries if I were building a new system from scratch:
1. Try to find a marginally larger LiFePO4 battery that can fit in the ArkPak (probably 130 amp/hr max)
2. Try to wire in a second 100 amp/hr battery (display would always be wrong but other than that could be workable)
3. Start from scratch and build my own battery box + charge controller + inverter + terminals/plugs/ports, etc.
I would be curious about what gear folks would recommend as the best for the later option. I think I'd like to buy a couple of these Renogy 170 amp/hr LiFePO4 batteries if I were building a new system from scratch:
12V/24V/48V 200Ah Core Series Deep Cycle Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery
Renogy provides solar panels, charge controllers, inverters, lithium batteries, portable solar generators and other equipments for off grid solar power systems
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