Upgrading 2020 Wolf Pup Camper Electric & Battery upgrades with 3x 170ah Renogy Batteries
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- čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
- We've upgraded the electrical system and camper batteries pretty significantly in our 2020 Wolfpup 16BHS, and we're upgrading them even further! We have 3x 170ah Renogy Lithium Iron batteries in our camper now secured below our bed. Check out how we have all of our stuff setup, and feel free to ask any questions or give us feedback on it all!
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Just stumbled across your video. Nice work on the install! From other comments, it looks like you got the problem with the ground fault figured out, but I had a similar problem running A/C on the same inverter you have. Only difference is I have 5 100ah LiFePO4 batteries in parallel. Come to find out that the Renogy inverters have a built-in ground fault circuit in them. The large 50+ amp draw that an RV air conditioner requires to start makes the inverter think that there is a short in the system, thus tripping the ground fault protection. If anyone is looking at the Renogy 3000 watt inverter to run large inductive loads like an air conditioner, air compressor, etc. I would recommend skipping it, and looking for a LF (low frequency) inverter instead. That being said, I installed a Micro-Air Easy Start (Took literally 10 minutes to install) and all is 100% fine now. I've used the inverter for about 40 nights worth of camping and haven't had a hiccup, so it is a good product, just not great for large inductive loads like an A/C though. It does have no trouble running the electric water heater, microwave, instant pot, etc.
Just seeing your comment now! Yep going with the soft start let my inverter run the air conditioning no problem. Plus this'll probably help if I am ever running my setup off of my generator!
Did the same setup in my RV but did 2x 170 with Renogy 2000W inverter with the Renogy Rover 40. Been 3 years now and so far so good. I just pulled the batteries and doing some storage testing to make sure they are living up to what they are rated for. Also just put 600W of Solar on the roof. I boondock for weeks and never need shore power, only thing is food and water, if that would last as long as the batteries.
Yeah water is a big limiting factor in these. The 20 gallon tank doesn't go long.
Food is a factor as well but I've found there a lot of easy no water meals that go the distance. Cheese crackers and pretzel chips on a paper plate means no water at all for washing or prep and it's dense and stores well!
I too have two of the 170's. How are either of you guys batteries holding up?
How are those 170ah Renogy batteries holding up?
Pretty good so far. I'm not in the camper a ton currently but an going to hit the road for a month again in July I think.
Awesome setup. I'm shopping Wolf Pups currently and the main concern I have is the DC only fridge. I'm estimating we'll be boondocking more than not. I know I will have to do some electrical upgrades. I don't see needing the AC circuits when boondocking, but who knows until I start camping.
Question, does your Renogy inverter do the converting from shore AC, or do you still use the stock Wolf Pup converter?
Second question: how much solar do you have up top to recharge the system?
Hey there! I thought I'd refined to this but it didn't make it I'm sorry!
Our fridge is dual option. AC or propane. Propane goes forever so it's nice, AC works then there's hookups. With good sunlight we can run the fridge on the inverter though!
We rarely need AC when boondocking. A few small things like our wetsuit dryers (hangairs) use power but barely any. We occasionally run the fridge on AC when there's lots of sunlight just to save on propane.
We had to upgrade the converter to a lithium specific version of what came stock. A fairly easy thing to do. Unfortunately I haven't had time to wire it to shore side power so right now I have to remember to turn it in or off based on whether we're plugged in our not and if we using the inverter. Can't have the inverter running the converter after all. This far though I've mostly just left the converter off. I've used it once in the last year?
So to answer your question no we don't really use the converter. We just let the DC system do it's thing and we rarely drop below 94% even when running heater, charging phones, etc etc.
Cool video! We just purchased 3 of these same renogy batteries and 3000w inverter for our travel trailer. Still waiting for them to arrive and excited to do the install. Did you ever end up figuring out how to run the AC off this system? That’s actually the main reason we’re doing it. Also can you recommend what brand/model of lithium power converter you used ? Thanks again !
Hey there! So for A/C I went with a soft start and it's been working great ever since. We only have 5 hours worth of straight rubbing the A/C in our camper with our batteries cut we never run it that long by a wide begin so it's okay
For converter we removed OEM panel WFCO converter and got the lithium one. We sold the old one on eBay for $80 making it a pretty cheap upgrade. It does the trick pretty well but the entire system in hindsight would have been better served with an all in one automatic transfer switch, inverter and charger/converter.
@@shredandenjoy7311 thanks for the reply! I see that renogy does offer an all in one 3000w inverter charger so I will go for that! I’ll look into the easy start. Did you get the micro air brand one ? Thanks again
@@LetsJustGoTravel is their unit also an automatic transfer switch? That's another key ingredient to make it all work imo!
Yes we went with micro air. It's nowhere near as easy to install as described but watching a few videos right beforehand then diving in made it pretty reasonable.
@@shredandenjoy7311 yes it has auto transfer switch :) excited to get it all installed! Thx for the heads up on the micro air. Is there any other video you can recommend for following install?
@@shredandenjoy7311 sorry just another question but how many watts of solar do you have in order to recharge this setup?
Renogy has 200ah batteries for less $ now than the 170s
Yep. Unfortunately they came out after this video.
@@shredandenjoy7311 i just bought a couple 170AH also. I agree they are pricey but I liked the size on them. Hard to find anything this capacity that is 6.1" wide like these. I didn't have the space for the normal form factor options out there.