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Do those batteries have liquid cooling? Don't think you will pull on them hard enough to need it, but might be worth hooking up the cooling loop just in case you ever pull on them hard with inverters powering something like AC or the house during a storm if needed.
They have a coolant loop. But I've done the math and there's no way I can pull enough to require it. 12000 watts surge / 48 volts is 250 amps. 250 / 12 banks of cells is 20.8 amps. Even if I was to loose 1/2 the packs and was running on the remaining it would only be about 42 amps from each bank of cells. That's less then 0.2C so unlikely to cause any heating in the cells. It's even less for charging
 

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Been working on my trailer recently on the weekends.

Installing the solar panels. Wiring up some of the batteries, the BMS (battery management system) and inverter

9X 460W panels. 4140 watts total. Wired 3 in series and 3 parallel
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Inverter, solar charge controller, battery breaker combiners

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BMS going in. Got two batteries (6 modules) wired up. Need to secure the wires and neaten things up. But otherwise working enough for testing and charging
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Fuse blocks installed. Saw dust getting all over. Need to vacuum and clean up everything still.
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Not the best photo. Plus doesn't show all the wires I have connected up so far. But shows how it's going to be connected. This is square D QO breakers which have a DC rating of 125V when wired like this. Will get more, better photos when I'm back in there to do the rest of the batteries
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Today with minimal sun and only a half day, the panels already made just over 5kWh of power pumped unto the batteries that I have hooked up so far. I'll have to see what they do tomorrow with more time. Still supposed to be overcast tomorrow and for the next two weeks or more. So, minimal production compared to what it might be able to do