D-tub Power and Electronics
Under
the hood will be eight large (69 lb) 12-volt AGM deep-cycle batteries
used to create 24V battery bank. I want to be able to operate
silently for a long time, hence the large battery bank. I'm
running at 24 volts just because a couple of critical parts I got surplus were 24
volts, so I've just stuck with it. There's less competition for 24v parts.
I'm using a Heart Freedom 25, a 2500 watt marine inverter with integrated 65A battery charger.
Power is generated with two
honda 2k generators drawing gasoline out of a 25 gallon tank, both mounted near the rear bumper of the vehicle.
I'd
like to get a Honda 3k generator, but that'll probably have to wait
until at least next year. Remote start would be a huge
convenience, and I'm going to have to run the 2k pretty hard to keep up
with the power usage.
I
worked on a project where we developed a custom circuit board for motor
and relay control for a system very much like a hot tub, and I
programmed the interface board for this system. It uses an
isolated power supply for control panel, so it can be safely placed
next to the water's edge. I'll need to reprogram the interface
menu system for this
project, but it should be rather straightforward (I had the mobile hot
tub project
in mind when I was writing the code for it).
From this interface, I should be have the following capabilities:
- activate intake pump
- coolant loop pump
- heater on/off
- tub circulation pump on/off
- temp sensing points:
- motorized
valves for the ability to bypass the heat exchanger, for when the tub
is hot but the shower water still needs to be heated.
- flow sensors - LEDs on panel
- battery
bank monitoring
- lights banks on/off