On this episode of Onboard Lifestyle we upgrade our house bank with Battle Born's BB10012 LiFePO4 batteries. With the addition of the Victron Multiplus12/3000 inverter/charger, BMV-712 Smart Monitor, and MPPT 100/50 SmartSolar Controllers, this major project will definitely make life more comfortable on SV basik. We team up with Battle Born Batteries to bring this whole project together and could not be happier with the amazing support and knowledge they gave us. Come back next week to see us fire up the system and put these new Lithium batteries to the test...see you then! Lithium Battery Installation: 6 Battleborn Battery BB10012s 1 Victron Energy BMV 712 2 12v Sterling alternator protection devices (APDs) 1 Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/50 Charge Controller 1 Victron 3000w Multiplus Inverter/Charger 1 400A ANL fuse kit to go inline between the inverter and house bank 1 VE Bus Smart Dongle 1 RJ45 1.8m cable JOIN OUR CREW! If you are interested in helping us produce these videos then please feel free to check out our Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/onboardlifestyle TIP JAR: Enjoy our videos? Want to give us a virtual high-five? Treat us to glass of rosé or whiskey on the rocks? Or pitch in on a tank of fuel? Click over to see how you can support our productions (most of the ways won’t cost you a dime): https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YDXEXUHWSF634&source=url SHIP'S STORE: Want to purchase our sv basik gear? Check our our Merch Store and show us some love by grabbing a shirt or two! Designed by our swabby Emma: https://teespring.com/stores/onboard-lifestyle PRODUCTS & CAMERA GEAR: https://www.amazon.com/shop/onboardlifestyle?isVisitor=true We have collected some of the products we use during our refit and to make videos in our Amazon shop. If you buy any of the items from our shop or anything else on Amazon (using the link), we get a few pennies added to our cruising kitty. Thank you so much and thank you to Amazon Influencer program. Don't forget to like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/Onboardlifestyle-SV-basik-435111790177690/ Check out our website! Still updating. 😜 https://www.onboardlifestyle.com/

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previously

on onboard lifestyle lin really pulls

through to find us a welder to fab up

our frame for the new

solar array and gets a kick out of the

custom tool needed

for the install the wind calms down

just enough for a few layers of top coat

on the new hard top

then lin goes aloft to rig up our new

lazy jack system

that will tie into the stack pack she's

been working on

the big news was that we received our

shipment from battleborn batteries

i still can't believe that we're making

the jump from flooded lead acid

to lithium and i can't wait for this

installation

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it's like christmas here on sb basic

guys because

our battleborn batteries have finally

arrived and that just means that

well you know what it means that means

we're getting rid of our lead acid

flooded batteries

and replacing them with fabulous

beautiful lithium batteries this is

something that i have wanted for so long

it's been something that's been six

years you've been asking

six whole years and that's how long

we've had our flooded batteries we have

the trojan t-105s

and it was at the time

it was the most cost effective way to

put a battery bank in the boat

and they've done okay over the years but

over the last what two years or so we've

noticed uh

that they're starting to lose their

oomph you know they're starting to come

down a little bit

every every month it's a little bit less

and we're finding us

uh watching our our power usage and

you know we're to the point where it's

time to

upgrade these before well especially

before we uh

leave this area and to upgrade to

lithium

it was a dream of ours and it's finally

happening and it's just gonna open up so

much more for us

you know being off grid for a longer

period of time

actually almost indefinitely if we have

all the solar

and it just means that i can have my

fridge on

24 hours during the course of this video

we'll go into those details we'll talk

about the advantages

that these new lithiums will have over

the old lead acid

and there's quite a few it's gonna

definitely increase

our quality of life here on sv basic so

i don't know what do we say do we get

into this let's unbox who doesn't like

an unboxing oh no i'm excited

okay teal let's uh break this down

because i'm looking at a lot of stuff

here and it's a little overwhelming to

me

i know it does does look overwhelming i

mean there's a lot to do to make all of

this work but it's not so bad if you

think about it

here's the plan you know actually

i'm going to ask you what plan you want

because

we could either just tear the old system

out and be in disarray for a couple days

or i could break this into a couple of

mini projects and it'll be a little more

comfortable

well obviously maybe obviously so

because

i mean it's not just for me i mean it

wouldn't be comfortable for you or emma

and

you know it's it's more orderly if we

break it down

okay well here's my pitch okay here's

how i'm gonna do it

number one we switch over everything we

can to 110 refrigeration

a couple of lights because we're going

to disable the 12-volt system i want to

keep it as comfortable as it can but we

are going to lose a few things

we'll disable the 12-volt system and get

the old batteries

inverter charger out of here that's

going to give me elbow room to install

the new batteries

get these strapped in place we're

putting on new uh

heavier gauge cabling for this because

these do handle quite a bit more load

that'll be step two step three

the monitor system step four

we'll have to go to the engine and work

with uh protection for the alternators

and reprogramming our charging system to

be compatible with the lithium batteries

see seems pretty easy so far right of

course step five

we work with the new uh battery charger

and inverter

we're gonna put a smart dongle on there

so it has bluetooth capabilities

i wanna be able to talk to everything on

our smartphones last step will be

working with the solar array and putting

a new charging system on for that

and integrating that into this system we

want to be able to charge our new

batteries as fast as we can

and upgrading from our 500 watts to 1.1

kilowatts is that's gonna be the trick

so

everything looks good except for that

monster right there that

inverter charger scares me so big

and i don't know where we're gonna find

a home for that she's a beast

but you know what i got a plan

and it involves me doesn't it shoved

into some dark corner

of our vessel it always does you know

that

so listen let's i'm going to

clean up some of this mess right now i'm

going to read through my manuals

and hit this thing first thing tomorrow

and get this installed

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madness i tell you this boat is being

torn apart

i'm doing the best that i can to keep a

little semblance of order but

deal right now looks it looks like he's

a mad scientist

look at all these wires teal

break it down what are you doing break

it down

that's what i'm doing i'm breaking it

down

pulling out the inverter charger

now i'm uh i've disabled the 12-volt

system i'm

pulling all of our flooded batteries out

it's going smooth so far but got a ways

to go

i'm your assistant i'm able and ready

for you i know

i know it seems hard but i feel like the

weight is lifting

off your shoulders as we speak

i think you have that backwards the

weight is on my shoulders as we speak

oh my god but just know this is the last

time

right you know what's nice these weigh

62 pounds each

the new ones going in 30 pounds

50 less weight and more power so that's

even better

i know it's a twofer

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with those six volt batteries removed

the footprint of those

batteries were smaller than the new

lithiums so i'm going to remove

the batteries tray and just cut a little

bit longer insets on these and remount

this

want to make sure this is nice and snug

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do you need help

emma come here

help your dad okay

trays are done now i'll put the straps

in

but i can only put the straps in as i

set the batteries in

so first two go in then the first two

batteries

emma i think your dad needs help again

first two batteries slid right in

straps are sitting here now i'll be able

to put the next

tie-down strap on

out with the old and in with the new

these are officially out and it's so

funny

for every battery that teal pulled out

i think he took ibuprofen from each one

of them they were so heavy

not these look at these night and day

right

night and day god no i have a pro fun

today

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huh and all of our lithium batteries

are in straps are nice and tight

and feel pretty good about all this i've

been spending some time up on the board

here starting to prep

for the cabling i've started the wires

that are going to the victron charger

inverter

here's our shunt coming off the the

negative bus bar

that's going to handle the battery

monitor system

i'm putting in a a new switch battery

switch

and so it's just a matter of starting to

make cables lots and lots of cables so

we'll be doing that the rest of the day

we have about 30 some odd cables to make

got an assembly line going i'm cutting

up the length crimping on

uh the lugs and lens using the heat

shrink to

finish them off the bendy ones are kind

of hard

the bendy ones they are

oh can i say last week was my birthday

and the girls got me an amazing gift

birthday to you happy birthday

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to you oh nice

what's this one i did good right i mean

we did good

oh we buy things that are useful on

board not just

fun stuff but this is fun it is fun oh

don't start that yet hang on

see he has to watch me every single time

no i don't line up

i'm demonstrating how nice these cutters

look like butter

like nothing love it

and my new hydraulic crimpers i'm a

happy man

okay go ahead let's get going

so

deal you got to clear a spot oh

right here okay

now this looks good well i gotta keep

you uh well fed so you can continue

doing the install thank you

how are you doing down there i'm uh

somewhat uncomfortable can you hand me

one of those long bolts two washers and

a nut

long bolts yep two washers

and a nut

thank you

so what are you doing the connections

for i'm doing

all the grounding first

and trying to do this without dropping

anything in between the batteries

so i don't want to take these out you

know i could do this because i'm smaller

i can

you may fit inside you want me to do the

positive connections

the positive is the easy one the

groundings are hard because it's the

furthest out here okay well

you can pull out and i can go in

that sounded bad it did sound kind of

bad

let's try this one more time

well you can crawl back out of there

okay and then i will crawl back in okay

take these wrenches in

okay i gotta un fold here

it looks so painful like folded up like

a pretzel in there

oh my goodness it's looking good though

yeah

okay you're in i told you it's tight

there is so much room in here i don't

know what you were complaining about

i'm almost done okay well i'll tell you

where to tighten them and where to put

them you can take it over from here

because that was too tight for me

you just tell me where to make the

connections

well let's take a look at where we stand

well first of all let's get rid of

the battery-powered light because lynn

came up with a great idea

that's right we put led lighting in the

battery compartment

we really want to show off our new

install

okay let's take a look at this all the

cabling is in

the load is coming off of battery one

everything is linked in parallel these

are 12 volt batteries so it creates a 12

volt circuit our last

set of batteries were six volt so i had

three separate series of batteries

linked together in parallel to create a

12-volt system

i spent last night putting in the

battery monitor

into the nav station

and all the cables are all ran back to

the multi-plus

that's the next step so we'll get on

that

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today emma and i are going to expose one

of teal's little secrets

you know how teal is super organized

and he's slightly ocd and he just likes

everything very nice clean and clear

well he is 90 of the time there is

one little flaw in his character i guess

you could say

there there's one room kind of like

monica's room and friends her secret

closet

teal has something like that you know

that pink door that you see

sometimes when we pass it uh we're gonna

expose teal's little dirty secret so

your job

is to get him to open that door okay

i'll try and coax him out of there

hello knock knock can i come in

okay hey

no cameras in here no we're exposing

your

little dirty secret you're messy

okay out of my room out of my room

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oh come on teal don't be ashamed

well the secret's out here's my room

it's got all my stuff in it and believe

it or not it looks terrible but it's

quite organized

it's unfinished in here and that's

coming up i'll be doing that here

somewhere down the road

but i chose this room to mount the

inverter i have a nice

vertical wall the battery compartment is

right through here it's only three feet

away

so this was the shortest run nice dry

location

and looks like i have everything in

last thing to do is put the cover on and

test fire this system

but this video is getting a bit long

i'll save that for next week

thanks for watching this week's episode

of honored lifestyle

this changeover to lithium power is so

amazing i can't believe it's finally

happening

we are so excited to let you know that

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batteries

they have been so great their products

are awesome and we are proud to be a

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see you then