Speaker 1: Question.
Speaker 2: This might be the heaviest battery I've ever had, but
Speaker 2: it's the largest battery I've ever had too.
Speaker 1: This is an.
Speaker 2: EPOCH lithium iron phosphate four hundred and sixty amp hour
Speaker 2: battery four hundred and sixty ampowers. It's got a Victron
Speaker 2: system built into it for monitoring and managing the BMS,
Speaker 2: and it's got these canvas ports on the side of it.
Speaker 2: The canbas CANbus is a controller area network bus. It's
Speaker 2: a port on the EPAC batteries that is used for
Speaker 2: communication between the battery management system, the BMS, and external
Speaker 2: devices like inverters, chargers, or monitoring systems. It allows the
Speaker 2: battery to transmit data such as the state of charge,
Speaker 2: sc voltage, current, temperature, and other critical parameters in real time,
Speaker 2: facilitating in real time, facilitating better integration with compatible systems,
Speaker 2: particularly like Victron, which often use canvas communications. In summary,
Speaker 2: Victron components work well with EPOCH batteries to provide efficient
Speaker 2: power conversion, detailed monitoring, smart management, and more safe operations.
Speaker 2: This is the system that's gonna go in the back
Speaker 2: of my truck. We're gonna install this today. This has
Speaker 2: kind of been a long time coming. I've been working
Speaker 2: on this for about I don't know, month and a half,
Speaker 2: maybe two months, something like that, but I got delayed
Speaker 2: a bunch because of travel out of town and also
Speaker 2: because of weather. If it's out here and it's thirty degrees,
Speaker 2: I don't feel like working on it. And if it's
Speaker 2: out here and it's raining, I can't work on it.
Speaker 2: But this is where the Epoch four hundred and sixty
Speaker 2: empower batteries going. It's going in here. This box here
Speaker 2: is a box made by Douha now Doha. While they're
Speaker 2: not real popular, I've been using this box for a while.
Speaker 2: I was using it with a three hundred empower battery
Speaker 2: which is right.
Speaker 1: There. It's buried right now.
Speaker 2: But they make Doha makes boxes that they called hump
Speaker 2: store boxes and they go over the hump. They mount
Speaker 2: to the rail to the side rail of the truck
Speaker 2: and they go over the hump of the wheelwell hump
Speaker 2: and then they sit there and you can access them
Speaker 2: from the outside.
Speaker 1: Come around here and open the lid, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But those boxes were not the correct dimensions for the
Speaker 2: battery I had. That's what I wanted. I wanted to
Speaker 2: use that, so they were up and out of way.
Speaker 2: This was before installed the deck slide here. I've got
Speaker 2: this rack and the decked and a few other things.
Speaker 1: This ice COO.
Speaker 2: I've got videos about that on my unplugged channel. But
Speaker 2: today we're talking about the battery system that's going to
Speaker 2: run all of the things in the back of the
Speaker 2: truck and it's going to enable me to have a
Speaker 2: completely mobile off grid communications vehicle.
Speaker 1: So this is going through real quick.
Speaker 2: Here. This is a red Arc DC to DC controller.
Speaker 2: This connects to It runs one positive lead to my
Speaker 2: starter battery in the truck, my main battery in the truck,
Speaker 2: and then it comes back here and it connects to
Speaker 2: several different places and it will charge my secondary battery
Speaker 2: that's going to go in here when the truck is running.
Speaker 2: It also has a forty amp it's a forty amp charger.
Speaker 2: It also has a built in MPPT solar charge controller,
Speaker 2: so I can charge this charge my battery through this
Speaker 2: via solar or via just the engine running in the truck.
Speaker 2: This is the Victron links shunt, which operates as a shunt.
Speaker 2: This is basically where the secondary battery gets connected to
Speaker 2: right here, and this is the links distributor which acts
Speaker 2: as a bus bar, both the positive and negative bus
Speaker 2: bar for the system. So let me take these cases,
Speaker 2: and of course I have my rig Runner four thousand
Speaker 2: and five right there as well. Now this will run,
Speaker 2: so my ice code fridge will plug in here. And
Speaker 2: then this one comes to an external port here. One
Speaker 2: of these is the solar input and one of these
Speaker 2: is the is just an extra port that I can
Speaker 2: plug in something external if I want to. I chose
Speaker 2: these SAE connectors because they are waterproof and they have
Speaker 2: this cover over them, so that's what that's for. And
Speaker 2: then this is the power coming in from the links
Speaker 2: distributor to the rig Runner. And let's take the covers
Speaker 2: off of here and I'll show you guys what this
Speaker 2: looks like. This is the shunt and the distributor with
Speaker 2: the removable covers taken off. These just unbolt. There's a
Speaker 2: Phillip said screw on either end. Just unbolting, lift off
Speaker 2: really cleanly, really easily. This is a two hundred amp
Speaker 2: fuse that connects the external battery to the rest of
Speaker 2: the system over here. So there's the two hundred amp
Speaker 2: fuze there and then these are individually fused. This and
Speaker 2: I believe these are fifty amp fuses, is what these
Speaker 2: are here. So we've got four fuse circuits fifty times
Speaker 2: forwards two hundred. That's why this is a two hundred here.
Speaker 2: Now this is a four hundred and sixty amp system,
Speaker 2: and the rig runner itself has forty amp fuses in it,
Speaker 2: so there's multiple fuses running through the system. I'm not
Speaker 2: really worried about it much happening to it. And there's
Speaker 2: no way I'm going to be pulling two hundred amps
Speaker 2: through this all at one time, even if everything was running,
Speaker 2: because these fifty amp fuses are not gonna victron fuses.
Speaker 2: You can get them in I think thirty forty fifty,
Speaker 2: one hundred, two hundred amps. You can get them in
Speaker 2: all kinds of sizes there. They might come as low
Speaker 2: as twenty five amps. I don't remember, but you know,
Speaker 2: if I'm keyed down on HF for an extended period
Speaker 2: of time, maybe with FT eight or something, I might
Speaker 2: be pulling twenty five or thirty amps. So I need
Speaker 2: something that is at least that big. And of course
Speaker 2: you could put these different sizes if you want to,
Speaker 2: but this is the line coming off the rig runner
Speaker 2: powering the rig runner going in here. You've got a
Speaker 2: positive line there and this is fused to the positive
Speaker 2: bus bar that runs to the shunt and to the
Speaker 2: external battery underneath this, which I'm not gonna pull that
Speaker 2: one up, but I'll pull this one up here. Underneath
Speaker 2: this is where the negative bus bar connects to. So
Speaker 2: you've got your positive bus bar, your negative bus bar
Speaker 2: on the bottom. This goes over the top of it,
Speaker 2: which is what this part is right here, and your
Speaker 2: positive connection goes here. I don't have anything in this
Speaker 2: spot because I only have three connections right now. So
Speaker 2: this is the rig runner. This is going to be
Speaker 2: the rig run, the second rig runner that have mounted
Speaker 2: behind the seat in my truck which runs on my radios.
Speaker 2: And this right here is the red arc DC to
Speaker 2: d C charger. So I've got all of these running
Speaker 2: through the links distributor and they will be read by
Speaker 2: the link shunt, so I'll be able to monitor everything
Speaker 2: coming into and going out of the battery. And if
Speaker 2: I want to, you say, see how these these come
Speaker 2: as two separate pieces, and you take the bolts off
Speaker 2: and you connect them right there. You can connect a
Speaker 2: second one of these right here and it would be
Speaker 2: that much longer. In fact, you can connect these kind
Speaker 2: of indefinitely. These links distributors have ports on both sides
Speaker 2: to connect to one another, so you can daisy chain them,
Speaker 2: you know, for as long as a long as you want,
Speaker 2: as much room as you have. And probably what I
Speaker 2: might do in the future is expand this. I wasn't
Speaker 2: able to find an actual box that was this is
Speaker 2: the best box I could find. Now. This box works fine,
Speaker 2: but it's obviously limited in space, and you'll see that
Speaker 2: when the video when I get everything installed. But I
Speaker 2: wouldn't mind finding a box this, maybe a little bit
Speaker 2: taller or something like that, with a little bit more room,
Speaker 2: so I could eventually add a second links distributor and
Speaker 2: put a few more things on it. But for now,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be enough. It's gonna run everything we've got.
Speaker 2: It's gonna run my entire rig runner in the truck,
Speaker 2: and it's gonna retire. It's gonna run everything in the back,
Speaker 2: which is the which is the ice coat, fridge, and
Speaker 2: the starlink and several other things.
Speaker 1: So let's put all this together.
Speaker 2: The first part of that video was about three months ago.
Speaker 2: It was towards the end of December. Part one of
Speaker 2: the video was about a month before that November. Part
Speaker 2: two of the video that you saw where I went
Speaker 2: through the Victron stuff, was in late December. In January,
Speaker 2: I put everything together that you saw there, and I
Speaker 2: let it run for about, I don't know, a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks on this battery. Now, this battery worked fine. Obviously,
Speaker 2: it's one hundre damp power. It is not going to
Speaker 2: last as long as the other one. But I wanted
Speaker 2: to put it together because that four to sixty is
Speaker 2: so heavy.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to put it all.
Speaker 2: Together and then drive it around for a while and
Speaker 2: be like something I didn't hook up something right or
Speaker 2: something's not working correctly, and have to plug that sucker.
Speaker 1: Out of there again. I'll show you how I mounted
Speaker 1: it in there.
Speaker 2: But I ran it on that and that battery would
Speaker 2: last almost two days running my entire system. Now, when
Speaker 2: the truck is idle like it is now, it's not
Speaker 2: beaconing APRS. There is a radio one in there on received,
Speaker 2: but I'm not transmitting obviously. And the temperatures outside over
Speaker 2: the last two or three months have been fairly cool
Speaker 2: to cold. We had a couple of fifteen degree days
Speaker 2: in February, so the fridge doesn't work that the fridge
Speaker 2: is plugged up twenty four to seven, but the fridge
Speaker 2: isn't working that hard because the ambient temperature outside is
Speaker 2: not that high, so that battery would last it for
Speaker 2: about two days, but about a week before Orlandohimkash of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, which was not quite a month ago
Speaker 2: at the time of this recording, the time of this
Speaker 2: last piece, right here, I put in my four hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty AM power battery and let me tell you
Speaker 2: guys something. I can't kill this thing.
Speaker 1: I can't kill it. I will drive the.
Speaker 2: Truck and it's at one hundred percent because that red
Speaker 2: art thing.
Speaker 1: Keeps it topped off pretty well.
Speaker 2: So that red art piece keeps it topped off pretty
Speaker 2: well while it's running. And again, it hadn't really gotten
Speaker 2: hot yet. And I'm gonna be interested to see how
Speaker 2: it performs this coming summer when it's you know, ninety
Speaker 2: five hundred hundred and five degrees outside in Texas and
Speaker 2: the fridge raider is gone is having to run a
Speaker 2: little bit more often than it is running. Right now,
Speaker 2: I've got this in here as a as kind of
Speaker 2: like a brace to keep it from falling over. Just
Speaker 2: this is this is temporary. This is not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent done yet, but it's it's done. It's been I've
Speaker 2: been running it like this for about a month. You
Speaker 2: see that I put some l brackets in here to
Speaker 2: keep the battery from sliding back or sliding this way.
Speaker 2: There's another one down there. So that's the whole thing.
Speaker 2: That's the four hundred and sixty amp hour. And every
Speaker 2: time I parked the truck, I parked the truck for
Speaker 2: let's see, I arrived in Orlando on Wednesday. We went
Speaker 2: to Poda on Thursday, and I parked the truck Thursday night,
Speaker 2: and I don't think I moved the truck until Sunday.
Speaker 1: I might have moved it.
Speaker 2: I might have started it and kind of parked it
Speaker 2: somewhere else, but I don't think I left the park
Speaker 2: all day Friday Saturday until Sunday. So I let it
Speaker 2: sit for about four days. We got back on Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Thursday to Friday Friday is Saturday Saturday to Sunday, about
Speaker 2: three days, like three days. And the battery was like above,
Speaker 2: it as like eighty one or eighty two percent. And
Speaker 2: of course as soon as I start the truck up
Speaker 2: and start driving home, it charges back up forty amps
Speaker 2: per hour. You know, it'll charge the entire battery in
Speaker 2: about ten hours, about about eleven hours, a little bit
Speaker 2: less than twelve hours. I say, if I could do math,
Speaker 2: I would have said twelve hours, a little bit less
Speaker 2: than twelve hours. Forty amps an hour times twelve is
Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty.
Speaker 1: So and then it's a four hundred and sixty Empire battery.
Speaker 2: But I've had this running since again, that was almost
Speaker 2: not quite a month ago. I've had this running since then.
Speaker 2: I don't drive my truck every day. I work from
Speaker 2: home making videos.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. You guys know that. And so
Speaker 1: I'll come out here to the truck after it's.
Speaker 2: Been sitting for a couple of days and the batteries
Speaker 2: at like ninety five percent, okay.
Speaker 1: I had the truck in the shop.
Speaker 2: Before I drove it to Ohio to pick up my
Speaker 2: new travel trailer last week. And the truck was in
Speaker 2: the shop they were replacing the fuel pump. It sat
Speaker 2: there for two days before they ever looked at it.
Speaker 2: They pulled it into the bay, took the gas tank out,
Speaker 2: replaced the fuel pump, put it back in, drove it up.
Speaker 2: They drove it up the road down and back again.
Speaker 2: They drove it like maybe five maybe four or five miles,
Speaker 2: so it wasn't running that long. And I come back
Speaker 2: to pick it up like three days later, and the
Speaker 2: batteries at like ninety two percent, so.
Speaker 1: So it charged up a little bit while it was running.
Speaker 2: But I mean, like the free I ran for like
Speaker 2: four days without the truck started at all. And again
Speaker 2: it's not that hot outside, so further testing this season
Speaker 2: will see. But my god, this battery is freaking rad
Speaker 2: It is freaking awesome. I tried to do a capacity
Speaker 2: test on the West Mountain Radio software and for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: the way the battery is built, one of the guys
Speaker 2: at EPOK explained it to me. It was kind of
Speaker 2: over my head, but just the way the battery is built,
Speaker 2: it just the West Mountain Radio software won't read it correctly,
Speaker 2: so I can't get a real capacity test on it.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you something, working real world, actual
Speaker 2: hands on and doing the thing, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I just I absolutely love it. So I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 2: What the app looks like now the next part of
Speaker 2: this build. So everything that's in the box now is
Speaker 2: the battery and all of the Victron stuff I showed
Speaker 2: you before. Apparently Victron doesn't put Bluetooth in some of
Speaker 2: their devices. I thought I thought Victron all had Bluetooth devices,
Speaker 2: or at least that link show. I thought it had Bluetooth. Apparently,
Speaker 2: the link Shun I got it's like three hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: They make a Bluetooth version it's like eleven hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: So I didn't go that route.
Speaker 2: But there is a thing called a SERBOGX that they
Speaker 2: make that I picked up recently.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna add it to the system.
Speaker 2: Not only does it have Bluetooth, it also has an
Speaker 2: Internet connection, and as you guys know, my truck has
Speaker 2: Wi Fi full time WiFi. In fact, I'm about to
Speaker 2: put Starlink in the truck.
Speaker 1: I've just been waiting on to get a new.
Speaker 2: Mount for Starlink to put it in the truck. But
Speaker 2: so anyway, either way, it has full time Internet in
Speaker 2: the truck, and the SERBOGX will not only connect via Bluetooth,
Speaker 2: so I'll be able to monitor it a little bit.
Speaker 1: Better, but it will.
Speaker 2: It will upload to the Victron cloud, so I'll be
Speaker 2: able to log in to the Victron cloud and look
Speaker 2: at my truck from anywhere where I have an Internet connection.
Speaker 2: So this is what the app for EPOC. This is
Speaker 2: the Epoch app, not the Victron app. I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: running the Victron app soon. I might take the SERBOGX
Speaker 2: has a monitor you can add to it.
Speaker 1: That's HDUM. I might put that there and let it
Speaker 1: run full time.
Speaker 2: I don't know yet, maybe maybe not here, but here's
Speaker 2: the Epoch app. I don't like the one thing I
Speaker 2: don't like about this app. It does not turn horizontal.
Speaker 2: It stays vertical. I email the guys at EPOK about this.
Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, can you update your app so that
Speaker 2: it you know, you can look at it on a tablet.
Speaker 2: That's not vertical because I keep my tablet right here
Speaker 2: in horizontal fashion, but you could see right there the
Speaker 2: batteries at ninety nine percent thirteen point.
Speaker 1: I'll turn the camera.
Speaker 2: How's that so you guys can see that better? Thirteen
Speaker 2: point three volts zero point zero amps are being drawn
Speaker 2: from it right now, which means the refrigerator's not running
Speaker 2: and the engine's not running, which obviously the engine is
Speaker 2: not running, and it's at four hundred and forty seven
Speaker 2: out of four hundred and sixty amps. And that's that's
Speaker 2: how I've been monitoring it since I don't have my
Speaker 2: Victron Bluetooth set up yet. But that is the next step.
Speaker 2: And like I said, I just I can't seem to
Speaker 2: kill this battery. So special shout out to Epoch Battery.
Speaker 2: I had them on a livestream a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: They make a fantastic product. I've got one of This
Speaker 2: is a four hundred and sixty empower. Like I said,
Speaker 2: I've got one of their three hundred empower batteries. I've
Speaker 2: done a little bit of testing on that. We're gonna
Speaker 2: finish that up soon. Awesome, awesome, very rough, very durable,
Speaker 2: very outdoors rough country batteries. And we're gonna see how
Speaker 2: it lasts the summer in Texas. My last battery last
Speaker 2: the summer Texas is fine. In fact, you know what
Speaker 2: something I forgot during one of those fifteen degree days.
Speaker 2: I woke up in the morning fifteen degrees outside a
Speaker 2: couple like during the middle of February, shortly after hammcasion,
Speaker 2: I came out to the truck and I started my truck.
Speaker 2: My truck doesn't like to run when it's when it's
Speaker 2: cold any more than I like to run when it's cold.
Speaker 2: And the truck started just fine. And I turn on
Speaker 2: this app and the batteries that like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe ninety four to ninety five percent something like that.
Speaker 2: And I look at the monitor and there's zero amps
Speaker 2: coming into the back, so it has low temperature cut off.
Speaker 2: Low temperature charging cut off. So when the battery is cold,
Speaker 2: it wouldn't allow the red arc charger to charge it
Speaker 2: to save from because it's fifteen degrees out. Well, it's
Speaker 2: fifteen degrees outside. I don't know what the temperature of
Speaker 2: the battery was, but it does say a temperature on
Speaker 2: this app here.
Speaker 1: Boun't remember what it was, so low temperature cut off
Speaker 1: on top of all that.
Speaker 2: So thank you to Epoch Batteries for sending this to me.
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