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Victron battery balancer wire length

Hello I am installing 12 lead carbon batteries in 48v exactly as Victron shows in the battery balancing info sheet. Due to where my batteries sit and the 3 balancers installation location the closest battery is about 2 feet away and the farthest is 10 feet. Do the wires from the balancers all need to be the same length or are they allowed to be different lengths depending how far away the battery connection is?

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Toryn

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@Livibg on a Lifeboat

Each balancer work independent of the next one. As long as the cables for the individual match I don't see how it would be an issue.

The cable will only ever carry at most 1A for balancing. So voltage drop should not be a huge thing either affecting the balancing. I would check that though. The cable dont need to be a huge gauge.

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