Battery Charger & inverter upgrade

[Dino]

Hi, my new (to me) boat came fitted with a Morven BCM1250 2 outlet battery charger and a Victron Atlas 1600 inverter. The battery charger is a 2 outlet and it looks like one outlet is charging the domestic bank and the other is run through a diode splitter to charge the two engine starting batteries. This is not ideal as there are big losses with diode splitters. The inverter is an old fashioned non-sine wave unit so it won’t run my Nespresso machine or my other half’s Dyson hair dryer.
Am I better to fit a combined Inverter/Charger like a Victron Multiplus? Or should I fit a separate smart charger and inverter?
Victron have a new model of the Multiplus called the Multiplus II. The only installation issue I see is that my inverter is one end of the engine room and the charger is the other end.

 

[vas]

I'd suggest what I did, Multiplus II
check where your battery banks are and sort out placement. THICK wires from MultiPlus to service bank. So the shorter the better.
engine bank is actually a trickle charge thing (tbh haven't bothered wiring it in) so thin cables easy to route.

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Hi, my new (to me) boat came fitted with a Morven BCM1250 2 outlet battery charger and a Victron Atlas 1600 inverter. The battery charger is a 2 outlet and it looks like one outlet is charging the domestic bank and the other is run through a diode splitter to charge the two engine starting batteries. This is not ideal as there are big losses with diode splitters. The inverter is an old fashioned non-sine wave unit so it won’t run my Nespresso machine or my other half’s Dyson hair dryer.
Am I better to fit a combined Inverter/Charger like a Victron Multiplus? Or should I fit a separate smart charger and inverter?
Victron have a new model of the Multiplus called the Multiplus II. The only installation issue I see is that my inverter is one end of the engine room and the charger is the other end.

Yes, Multiplus would be ideal. The PowerAssist functionality is excellent, but it needs to be a part of a planned system that’s fit for purpose - lots of heavy AC and DC loads.