2024 Minnie Winnie 22R Lithium Upgrade Readiness

[Niels Jensen]

I have a 2024 Minnie Winnie (2023 Ford E 450. I will buy a LifePO4 100 Ah self heating blue tooth battery.

Will I also need?

1. One Vevor 20 A DC/DC battery charger (to enable the engine generator to fully charge the battery)

2. One Vevor RV Power Converter 65 A 110 VAC to 12 VDC (to use Shore Power or my on-board generator to charge the lithium battery).

 

[klook]

This has been discussed over and over. It is a little more complex with a Class C, then just sticking each of those in there. I have done this and more with my 2004 Minnie Winnie, E450. I disconnected the AUX or Boost switch on the dash and the alternator wire that automatically triggered the solenoid that connected the house and the chassis battery.
The convertor is most likely easier, depending how it is wired in on your power distribution box.
However, I would not put Vevor in anything I planned to go on the road in and expect reliability. YMMV

 

[Niels Jensen]

Thanks for the tip on Vevor reliability. I'll try to return those components. What do you suggest I buy to replace them? Reliability is important to me because I go to Colorado each winter for several weeks to ski. Obviously the system must work.

 

[klook]

Many talk smack about the WFCO brand, I have installed 25 or so and use them myself with no problems. Including the AD models that auto detect. Progressive Dynamics gets great reviews. There are many Chinese knockoffs on Amazon for the WFCO brand. I think that is some of the bad ones. Iota Engineering is another and Go Power. Only seen a couple of Iotas that had failed and replaced with WFCO.

 

[Niels Jensen]

I have a 2024 Minnie Winnie (2023 Ford E 450. I will buy a LifePO4 100 Ah self heating blue tooth battery.

Will I also need?

1. One Vevor 20 A DC/DC battery charger (to enable the engine generator to fully charge the battery)

2. One Vevor RV Power Converter 65 A 110 VAC to 12 VDC (to use Shore Power or my on-board generator to charge the lithium battery).

 

[Niels Jensen]

I decided to have a RV Technician install the necessary components He looked at the factory installed Power Converter (110 V ac to 12 V dc, and told me the factory installed unit have Auto Detect so i don't need a new Power Converter. My Winnebago is model year 2024. The info provided by guys who made the upgrade to Lithium on older models does not apply. Fortunately I was able to return the Power Converter I had purchased.

 

[Morich]

The big problem I see very often is that we tend to think of RV as a single unit built by Winnebago. The truth is that RV are more like our houses in that the main "frame" is built by the chassis folks , the "house" is built by Winnebago and then the rest is much like our stick built homes where much of the details are like the items we add to the house.
That often leaves the details of how each item like the converter works to fall back to who buit the converter.
The info on the converter will depend on who, when, and what that company who built the converter put together. Somewhat like talking about the TV at your stick built house?
The info we get on the RV is the very basic info and a part number but it tells us very little about what it is capable of doing.
Hope this doesn't sound too much like a rant, but it may help when looking at future problems if we get in mind how different RV are from cars which are pretty much built by one specific company.