This installation was completed in May of 2026.  The owner of this Class C RV were referred to me by Battle Born.  They were in the process of purchasing some Battle Born products and were looking for someone to install them.  Battle Born sent them my way.  I spoke with the owner and we discussed what he wanted to do.  The RV was an older Class C and was in need of new batteries.  The owner wanted to make some other upgrades as well.  The owner was looking for someone to do the installation immediately, but my schedule was full at the time.  We worked out a scenario where the owner picked up two new Battle Born 100 amp hour batteries and installed them himself to get hrough a trip they had planned and then he had Battle Born send the other parts he had purchased direct to me.  The owner later dropped his rig off at my shop for the installation.

The installation took two days to complete.  Even though access is always tight in a Class C RV, I was able to come up with an installation plan that made everything go fairly smoothly.  The RV had an existing small solar panel and solar controller installed in the original manufacturing process.  I left these in place to augment the new components.  There was also an original, small 400 watt inverter that powered the entertainment center.  I ultimately removed this inverter as it was no longer needed.  The owner had replaced his failing batteries with the two Battle Born 100 amp hour batteries.  They were slightly larger than the OEM batteries and as a result the factory battery bay door wouldn’t quite close completrely.  The owner temporarily secured the door with zipties to complete his trip.  I was unable to make the batteries fit in the OEM compartment, so I moved them to a different compartment with more room.  This larger compartment had an upper shelf that fit the two batteries and the Battle Born 2000 watt inverter charger perfectly.  I also placed the shunt and a Blue Sea 3000 HD on/off switch on this shelf.  I ran 2 AWG welding cable from this new location back to the OEM battery box and installed new bus bars.  This gave me a wayto connect all the OEM DC connections to the new batteries.  I then ran 10 AWG SOOW cable from the main breaker panel to the new inverter and back.  The OEM main breaker panel had a built in automatic transfer switch to handle switching between shore power and the on board generator.  I connected the output of the transfer switch to the AC input of the inverter charger and I connected the AC output of the inverter charger to the 30 amp main breaker in the breaker panel.  I tested the shore input and generator input to confirm functionality.  Shore input worked with no issues, but the inverter would not pass through the generator input.  I did some additional testing and found the Hertz cycle of the generator power was too far out of range, which caused the inverter to refuse to pass it through.  I confirmed this functionality with Battle Born.  The customer will have to get the generator serviced to bring its AC output within an acceptable herts range for the inverter to pass it through.  Finally, I installed to new Battle Born 230 watt solar panels on the roof of the RV.  I ran new PV wire down from the roof and connected it to a new Victron 100/50 MPPT SmartSolar controller.  I was able to run the new wire down from the roof behind the refridgerator and used the refrigerator roof vent as an access point for the wire.  Luckily the refrigerator was installed directly over the OEN battery compartment.  I was able to install the MPPT in this compartment and connect its battery outputs to the new bus bars I had installed in the copartment.  I also added Midnite Solar MNEPV breakers on both the solar and battery sides of the new MPPT.  These were also mounted in the OEM battery compartment.

Once I was done with the installation, the owners returned to pick up their rig.  I spent some time with them going over all the equipment and the Victron Connect App to interact with the equipment.