Outback Power IBR Sealed AGM Deep Cycle Battery Rack

Hi this is Amy from the Alte Store. I wanted to show you the battery racking system from outback power. It's the IBR, what I'm showing you here has got the two shelves and it's also available in three shelves. So this is really nice, because it fits their nice energy cell batteries. So I'm going to show you with their nano-carbon batteries. These are fabulous batteries for off-grid situations. Because with the carton inside the battery, it actually can handle a partial state of charge.

A lot better than most other battery technologies. So this is really really good in case the solar can't charge the battery up all the way. The nano carbon batteries are actually okay with a partial state of charge. Unlike any common lead acid battery. We've got a video that talks more about it. So you can check that video out.

I wanted to show you the racking system that will hold either eight or twelve of them depending on if you're doing two strings or three strings. So again this is the two strings here. So I want to show you how this all works. It'll take the energy cell batteries, it will also take any standard eight D sized battery.

So you can have a nice sized battery system with this. So each of these batteries is about 131 pounds or 60 kilograms. You probably want to have a friend help you with this. But you would slide these into the shelf and it comes with theses terminal bars, the batteries do. You can simply bolt them together, and this gives you a nice, heavy terminal bar as your battery interconnect cable. So you don't have to buy separate cables. Each battery comes with these terminal bars.

So we tighten these up you want to make sure that your terminals are always really nicely tightened. Okay So another nice thing that these come with are these little protectors. All you have to do is snap these right in here. So this gives you still access so if you want to get your volt meter in here you can do that and check on things. But it's going to help you from shorting between the batteries, which is very bad. So it gives you a little bit of protection here. So you'll see I've got these wired in series plus to minus. So I've got twelve, twenty-four, thirty-six, forty-eight volts. And the negative is going of to the negative bus bar which we'll show you in a minute. And the positive, lets take a look at where the positive is going.

So because this is a two shelf model, your going to have two parallel strings. So that plus comes off the last plus and goes to the breaker. The output of the breaker then goes to this positive bus-bar. The same thing happens with the other shelf, through a breaker to the positive bus-bar. So this is protecting everything, protecting the wires, protecting the other strings. So if something goes wrong with one string, that breaker will trip and you're not going to damage your other string. On the three shelf unit, you would have a third breaker and they would all go down to the common positive bus-bar, you then connect your battery-to-inverter cable, then that would go off to the main breaker for your inverter.

Which would connect the battery bank to the inverter. Let's pop over to the other side and see what we do with the negatives. So on this side of the string we've got our negatives from each string going to the negative bus-bar. Now because this is going to be a grounded system we're breaking just the positive. So the breakers are on the positive, no breakers on the negative. It just goes to the negative bus-bar. Then that next cable will go up to the negative bus-bar in your DC load center to go to the inverter. That is how you are going to be wiring this all up.

It is nice where everything got plexi on top, so you've got nice visibility, yet you've got safety from prying fingers. Ill actually show you the front has it as well. So In addition to these nice little caps you've got for protection, we also have plexi that goes right on the front here. Just bolts right on, so it gives you easy access, but it also gives you the protection from wayward fingers and tools. Now this is for sealed batteries because this is not a sealed battery cabinet, this is not something that you would vent. It is open in the back. It's kind of open just through the plexi. But it's not something you would use with flooded batteries where you would have to keep all that hydrogen inside. This really is for sealed batteries.

You see you've got the breaker right in the front, each of the breakers. So nice complete system, just under three feet high. You do want to put this on a solid surface, because once all these batteries are in here, it's going to weigh probably over one-thousand pounds. Make sure where you're putting this can support that weight. Just the rack it self is very nice and strong and sturdy, it's about sixty pounds. So it's a really nice, safe, clean setup for your sealed batteries. I hope this was helpful. If so give us a like and share, and be sure to subscribe to our altestore channel so we'll notify you when we've got new videos coming out and don't forget to go to our website at altestore.com where we've been making renewable do-able since 1999.