Unlimited Self Sustained power!!! 2013 Tacoma High Output Alternator 220amp Bluetti Charger1 install

Installation of the powerbastards high output 220amp alternator, upgraded wiring kit, and bluetti charger1! Won't be needing my solar panels anymore!!

 

You glorious bastige! You already posted here lol! I was coming here to spread the good news. Well done!
DaveInAZ

 

hahah thank you brotha!

 

PowerBastards 220amp alternator- https://www.powerbastards.com/proddetail.asp?prod=11354-220-HD2-1
Wiring kit- https://www.powerbastards.com/proddetail.asp?prod=PB-1001-01

 

Question: Would there be any advantage to running this alternator on a totally stock daily driver?

 

Do you have any sustained electrical loads that might approach 200 amps? Other than a winch, I cannot imagine one.

A large alternator is capable of providing many amps and remaining cool enough to continue operating. But, for a daily driver, with stock electrical loads, i can see no advantages to this mod.

 

I have no sustained electrical loads, winches or anything like that. Was just wandering if there was anything the high out put alternator could do for me that my stock one already isn't. Sounds like there would be no advatage for my use case.

 

Likely use a bit more gas. Probably not a noticeable amount without any extra load.

 

I agree with these other replies. Unless there's things you'd like to setup with the extra power you would have available. You can do setups that have ac plugs so you can charge laptops or anything else. But otherwise, not necessary. My 80 amp did seem to struggle even just with my dash cams, phone charging, charging camera batteries while driving. My voltage reader on the interior would dip into the low 13v even to 12v range. Depending which alternator you'd go with, a high output isn't much more if you had to replace it anyway. I certainly don't use my truck the way the average person does though hahah. Having the extra power does open up a lot of options though for add ons

 

Does anyone else have a bluetti setup? I am about to order up the DC050s so I can run my solar panels to the AC input. That way I can have the alternator charger and solar panels hooked up full time, rather than switching between the 2. Curious if anyone has setup something different to accomplish this? It's the only solution I have found to not have to constantly be switching plugs between solar and the alternator charger, since they only made 1 plug for both of them.

 

@timelesstaco , how about this...
The dc050 thing is $199, shows sold out.
The charger1 is $250, totaling $450 ish.

Return the charger 1. Purchase an ETaker f1000 for $300. Now you have 500w solar, 500W alternator. Cant remember whar your bluetti input specs are, or solar, may get more from the 450$ setup... just seems complicated. It's only 500W also.

 

Maybe I'm missing something here but your solar panels are DC. You don't want to run them to the AC input.

 

Yes you're missing something. The bluetti device is specifically made to do this. By them, for their machine. Their ac in port is just a dc input, fed by an acdc power brick. I had to look up the device and read it.

It's not a good design at all... all the dc inputs should have a published range of voltage, so they can be used by various.

 

ended up getting a deal on it from another source! But yeah honestly, bluetti isn't a simple setup no matter how you approach it. I still would have had the issue of the charger needing to go to the same solar input. And the stock AC charging block is only 370 watts. From what I'm aware of now, ecoflow has the upper hand for sure

 

Yeah, basically it's either run in parallel with my solar panels, or use this adapter to send it to the AC input. It allows for AC and solar input simultaneously. The downside to running it in parallel with the solar panels would be that I would have to limit the alternator charger voltage to that of the solar panels. I also don't know if there would be any other complications doing it that way. Anything I came across online of people talking about that approach, bluetti always recommended against it, but never elaborated why. I also don't want to falsely present myself as someone who is extremely well versed in all of this. I have experience having worked with a jack of all trades contractor for well over a decade, and I do a lot of research. but I'm not an electrical wiz kid with all the knowledge on all of this hahah. Also appreciate everyone giving input. I'm eager to learn more, and hope that it doesn't come across any other way. I tend to take DIY custom routes, as can be seen with a lot of my build, but electrical is a domain I'm sure to play more on the safe side

 

Yeah at the time that I picked up the bluetti ac200p, I wasn't aware of ecoflows equivalent capacity solar generators. Ecoflow seems to have everything more dialed in. I still find 800w from the alternator charger to be absolutely insane though hahah. Their AC charger pushes over 1,000watts too. Which they have a switch on them to limit that. Which is much needed, as the faster you charge any battery will lead to more battery degradation in the long run. They seem to have it all dialed in with what you chose to do though, not needing a bunch of accessories and adapters. That's from my outsider perspective though. My friend has one and has no complaints, but he doesn't really use it in an overlanding sense. Morseso charging it up and bringing it on short trips with no solar. Would be interesting to hear from people running ecoflow, and if they have run into any complications

 

Thanks for the vid. Could you share where you attached the negative wire of the Charger 1 to the battery? My negative battery terminal doesn’t have a spot to add on accessories

 

Here's a picture!

 

Screwed the fuse in to the radiator support cover