I have been thinking of a modification, where I connect 2 Lynx Distributors/Power Ins with opposite direction cable entry. The idea is blue devices at the top and batteries at the bottom. I know it falls foul of the idea of balancing ‘in and out’ devices on the bus bars. I am thinking of connecting the poles like in the attached diagrams with bent copper bus bar, like in the second image (bent paper would be the joining copper bus bar). One connector would be at the top and the other at the bottom of the exposed bus bars with suitable insulation in between. Can anyone think of a better idea?
Perhaps an idea to allow cable entry from both directions for the next version of the device.
I think that you will find bending copper bar like that will be difficult, and also the crossover will need suitable clearance.
Far better to increase the separation, and use cables to link the 2 units.
It’s also better to have cable entries pointing down, then small items can’t drop into the openings.
Not Ideal but I did one like this. I put the MPPTs below the right one and the inverter above the left one. It ended up really neat. ANL fuse between them like a Lynx Shunt but much cheaper fuse holder.
Just swap the rubber caps on the end of the busbars (black to top, red to bottom) and connect them with regular busbars. Remember, they are just busbars, so it doesn’t matter if you connect the negative to the top and positive to the bottom, there is no intelligence in there!
I replaced the initial custom copper busbars I used before with original flexible busbars that I had left from my EVE cells. Widened the lugs from M8 to M10. They are each capable of handling 350Amps, so I put one on top and one at the back. Since my 3 x Multi RS 6000 are never going to exceed 350Amps that seems sufficient.
The Lynx shunt is basically functioning as an intelligent fusebox with a 450Amp ANL fuse.
