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Non-isolated Orion on a boat. Good or bad idea?

I would like to charge my house batteries on my boat from my engine batteries using a Victron Orion tr-smart. I believe that the engine & house batteries have different grounds but they can be combined for emergency starting. So there is that angle. I am not sure if I can use a non-isolated version of the Orion tr-smart. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.


I did upgrade one of the alternators to a higher amp charging unit, so I would prefer to use more than 30A to charge the house batteries. The only way to do that is to use 3x Orion 30A units in parallel. I do not believe that its a complicated installation but any guidance from those that have installed parallel units would be very appreciated.

Thank you in advance


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