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ggreen asked

What size wire and fuse. Please

I have 5 12v 240ah AGM batteries. Which I need to wire in parallel question what size wire between batteries and what size fuse, question 2 what size wire from batteries to inverter. Inverter is a multi plus 2 12v 3000va 230v . The distance from the batteries to inverter is 2.5m

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Peter Buijs - NL answered ·

A good starting point is Wiring Unlimited https://www.victronenergy.nl/upload/documents/Wiring-Unlimited-EN.pdf and for the wire sizes the Victron Toolkit app. The Multi manual also states wire size and fuse.

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Michelle Konzack answered ·

As already mentioned read "Wiring Unlimited".


However, I suggest you to connect the 5 Batteries each seperately with 25mm² wires (all same lenght) to a Busbar otherwise with the current of your 3000VA Inverter you get an imbalance in the batteries

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Alexandra answered ·

@GGreen

The multiplus manual give fuse sizing and battery cable requirements.

Bus bar, dont daisy chain the batteries. The lynx is neat for that.

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