Using victron products for all my charging sources not just solar

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in my DIY built RV i have a DIY DC system with AC inverter. As far a victron products I have only been using an older ~8yo 75/15 mppt with a bluetooth dongle. It TOTALLY works great and am VERY pleased that it still takes software updates and totally like how I can track the charging state, total charge. and history. I am VERY happy that victron products don’t become bricks that need upgrading after a couple years.

That said I have been using a vmaxtank AC charger when on shore power and I use my Ford truck which (irritatingly) I had to do a custom wire job to get the pin 7 to supply power to the trailer system. The truck connection is simple just direct with a one of those battery protectors that keeps the RV system from draining the car battery when not towing.

I have two 100 amp/hour batteries with switches that let me control which battery supplies DC loads, which battery supplies the 1000w inverter (we use primary to run a mini fridge) and which battery is being charged plus another switch which set the source for charging (solar, truck, or AC-DC power supply). This allows me for example to isolate a battery being charged by solar from the one currently running the inverter and thus I am able to drive the first battery into float from the panels something I could not do if the batteries where in parallel (no switches).

So am am about ready to move from SLA batteries to LiFePO4 batteries and figured it was a good time to think about using victron products for all my sources (truck and AC-DC/shore too).

I would like to be able to monitor charging from the truck in the same way I can from the mppt and I would like the charging from the truck to be “smart/bluetooth” instead of just a dumb voltage from the truck generator whatever that may be especially since now I will have LiFePO4 batteries.

I would like an AC-DC charger that is also smart/bluetooth.

Nothing needs to be more than 15 amps like the solar. I have not looked at recent victron products but it should would be sweet there was an all-in-one box that could do solar, DC generator/truck and shore/AC all in one. if not then I’ll need DC-DC charger and AC-DC charger to go with my current mppt. I have two cheap shunt meters now that give me some idea of charge usage w/H and batter voltage and amps but I see victron now make a smart shunt which can do the same and more.

Given my setup can folks/victron recommend what I should buy. Nothing new here nor rocket science so I imagine others have set up their RV similar. I suppose I could even use victron to replace my 1000W inverter too. Thx!

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There is a neat product overview page here.

There are separate products for this
The orion XS does the dc to dc. And can be programmed to lower currents for charging.
Otherwise there are other dc to dc ones that are smaller.

For ac charge you could get an inverter that does ac charging and inverting.

Otherwise the ip22 has a model that has 3 outputs so wil allow automatic charge of separate banks if you intend on keeping it like that.

All the new sruff has Bluetooth monitoring.

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@lxonline has covered Victron products. I would make a more generic comment, going to Lithium brings a different mentality, you do not need to get to float frequently like with lead acid, although you do need to get to absorption at 14.0V to 14.4V(depending on battery manufacturer) every so often to balance the cells. It may be time to consider the multiple switching and run as a single bank. Or keep the switching and see how it goes first.

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went with the 20 amp ip22 charger and the orion 12/12 18. Thanks for your input. Once I got everything installed and operational I’ll come back here and post the outcome and my setup.

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Which Orion? The converter or the charger? You want the charger.