Lithium Battery Pre-Assembled Enclosed Rack

[Jaybay797]

Hi All,

Does anyone know where I can source one of these locally?

Excluding the batteries of course, but something with the busbar installed in the cabinet itself.

Would also consider building myself if needed.

 

[NI∀ƆOƆ‾⊥ᴚ∩ʞ]

@Phoenix Energy

 

[Phoenix Energy]

Hi All,

Does anyone know where I can source one of these locally?

Excluding the batteries of course, but something with the busbar installed in the cabinet itself.

Would also consider building myself if needed.

Yep definitely can.

Built a system with a rackmount inverter in it last year.

- How many batteries you want in there?
- What batteries are you putting in there?
- What will be the current draw be? (Asking this to calculate the busbar size)

 

[Confucius]

Hi All,

Does anyone know where I can source one of these locally?

Excluding the batteries of course, but something with the busbar installed in the cabinet itself.

Would also consider building myself if needed.

I just made my own out of a 600 deep network rack. I added extra support rails out of square tubing and thread rod to hold the center from bulging.

With the pylontech batteries I just have 2 sets of pylontech cable lugs bolted together to a 95mm cable inside with heat shrink and placed inside trunking. The 95mm cable goes to the busbar that is 5m away though.

AC/DC also sell some 1-1 heavy duty terminal blocks that can be used.

https://imgur.com/a/B5J5PXC

 

[Jaybay797]

@Confucius thanks for the feedback, looks great! Would you consider setting the batteries up with a busbar running vertically? Wondering if one of the batteries discharges quicker than the rest who it will affect their lifespan.

 

[BLUE-ANGEL]

I just made my own out of a 600 deep network rack. I added extra support rails out of square tubing and thread rod to hold the center from bulging.

With the pylontech batteries I just have 2 sets of pylontech cable lugs bolted together to a 95mm cable inside with heat shrink and placed inside trunking. The 95mm cable goes to the busbar that is 5m away though.

AC/DC also sell some 1-1 heavy duty terminal blocks that can be used.

https://imgur.com/a/B5J5PXC

Looking very neat.
And how much does this setup take out of your bank account?

 

[Confucius]

@Confucius thanks for the feedback, looks great! Would you consider setting the batteries up with a busbar running vertically? Wondering if one of the batteries discharges quicker than the rest who it will affect their lifespan.

The batteries are connected in parallel already so you don’t need a busbar. I’ve got 1 set of cables connected to the top battery and another to the bottom battery and these 2 sets of cables connect to the 95mm cable I mentioned. Each battery is connected to each other with the provided cables.

Each battery has an internal bms and the bms of each battery talk to the others. Inverter just connects to the master battery. I started off with 2 batteries, then added the 3rd after some months and then the 4th. Those were all 3.5kwh units. Then after some time I added a 4.8kwh. The bms will take care of the charge / discharging.

Some people will complain about pylontech being 0.5C but if you have enough of them, 0.5C doesn’t matter.

 

[Confucius]

Looking very neat.
And how much does this setup take out of your bank account?

I started in 2020 and prices were a lot cheaper then. That’s 19.6kwh and I paid around 70k for that. Current pricing is probably around 115k for the same hence I have some empty spaces in the racks. 😂