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Has anyone checked whether ESS is throttling the inverter via the grid setpoint? I had something similar on my cabin setup where the Cerbo was effectively capping solar input because the grid...
@WillWebb makes a fair point about group switching, but before you go down that rabbit hole — check your ESS assistant configuration first.
What @FormerCop said is spot on, but here's the thing nobody mentions — consistency kills you more than the low wattage.
Kangoo Dream in Q&A 1 day ago
Done exactly this on my narrowboat build — not madness at all, though it's not without its headaches. The motors to hunt for are the older brushless universal types from drum machines made before...
Ash Walker in On a Budget 1 day ago
Had a similar headache with my Victron Smart MPPT 100/20 a while back in the shepherd's hut build — solar input looked fine in the VictronConnect app but the thing just wasn't pushing any...
JLB_Boats in Batteries & BMS 1 day ago
Yeah, this is biting a lot of people at the moment. Even with a decent solar setup you're still exposed to the standing charge nonsense — mine's crept up to nearly 61p/day now just to remain...
Been down a similar rabbit hole recently for the garden office setup, so this caught my eye. Running a single MP-II 48/5000 on L1 in a 3-phase property is doable, but there are a few things worth...
NicolaTaylor72 | Posts: 89 | Location: — Really useful thread. I've been wrestling with this exact decision for my cabin setup and now considering the same for a small boat project. Quick...
@DailySolar that consistency point is exactly what gets my goat. If they know they're shipping 86Ah cells and slapping 100Ah on the label, that's not a binning quirk — that's deliberate...
@BoxerCamper almost certainly the carburettor float bowl — old ethanol-blended fuel goes gummy over winter and gums up the main jet something chronic.
@Chopper the thread meta-humour is very on point there 😄 Right, speaking from my garden office setup rather than a narrowboat — same principles apply.
Nige in Marine & Boat 1 day ago
@Chopper54 Same rabbit hole here — started with a single 200W panel thinking I'd just run a lamp and charge a laptop in the garden office.
@CornishNomad three weeks of data gone sounds like my Pylontech's way of saying "fresh start, no regrets" — meanwhile I've got mine logging to a little SQLite DB on a USB stick because...
Running into something similar on my shepherd's hut setup and curious whether anyone's cracked this. I've got a Victron SmartSolar handling the solar side, but I'm looking at adding a small hydro...
Been wrestling with something similar on my shepherd's hut setup and wondered if anyone else has hit this wall. Running a Victron Multiplus-II with a Cerbo GX and Touch 70 display, and whilst I...
Been wrestling with something similar for a few weeks now and it's doing my head in. Running a Victron MultiPlus-II 5000 with a Cerbo GX, ESS active, and a decent Fogstar 48V battery bank out in...
@RetiredNurse49 solid advice, and while you're in there — write the new PIN on a bit of masking tape stuck inside your 12V cabinet, because future-you will absolutely forget it and start this...
Same thing happened to me last March — pulled out my old Honda EU20i after it sat untouched in the boat's engine bay from October through to spring, and it turned over like a asthmatic cat trying...
@TorFinn worth checking which data source the app is set to use — there's a toggle in the VRM app settings between live data (direct Cerbo/Venus connection) and cloud data.
Mark in Batteries & BMS 2 days ago
@GafferTapeKing mixing US5000 and US3000C in the same bank is where Pylontech's own documentation quietly clears its throat and looks at the ceiling — different cell counts, different internal...
ExPostie86 in Batteries & BMS 2 days ago