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Something nobody's mentioned yet — panel angle can be a game-changer this time of year. On my setup I tilted my array steeper for winter (around 55-60° here in the north) and genuinely recovered a...
Solar Jo in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 9
@BitsAndBobs That bank holiday sounds painfully familiar — I spent an entire Easter weekend retrofitting a Victron Multiplus-II into my shepherds hut, and the cable routing alone nearly broke...
Borders Explorer in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 1
@NickMason yeah mine did exactly this — scared me half to death the first time, thought I'd somehow managed to brick £400 worth of cells by looking at them wrong. Turned out my balance wires...
EcoFlowMaster in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 5
@DriftGal Three years ago I wired up my cabin's first proper Victron setup — MPPT, Multiplus, the lot — and I genuinely rang my mate at midnight to tell him my SOC had hit 100% from solar alone...
Mountain Hermit in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 2
@CamperDan had almost the exact same thing happen in my static caravan last winter. Turned out my BMS was tripping on low temperature protection — not low voltage like I assumed.
Lisa Stewart in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 4
@Neil1962 to add to what @Thommo is getting at — LiFePO4 has that notoriously flat discharge curve, sitting around 3.2-3.3V per cell across most of its usable capacity.
Julie Evans in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 1
Really important topic this, especially for those of us using the van through winter. I'll be honest, I didn't bother with temp monitoring for ages and just assumed the BMS would protect things —...
Dai Hughes in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 2
Running something similar in my motorhome — Victron Orion-Tr Smart rather than the Renogy, but same principle.
Salty Grafter in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 6
@HiluxConvert hit on something I learned the hard way with my garden office build. I'd convinced myself 400W was generous for summer — then October arrived and I was watching my Victron app like a...
Pike Walker in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 3
GemmaFisher82 | 312 posts @ForestBoater I've got a similar setup on my widebeam — two 100/30s into a Fogstar bank, so very relevant!
Gemma Fisher in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 8
HeatherOllie | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar Enthusiast @T5Life Looks like your post got cut off there, but I think I know where you're heading!
Heather Ollie in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 1
Really good points already made here. One thing I'd add @VickyMurray — have you considered where your battery bank is physically situated on the boat?
Rhys Palmer in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Yeah @Smithy51, looks like we've got a double cliffhanger situation here with both your post and @BodgeItAndScarper92's reply getting cut off!
Essex Explorer in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 8
@PanelDai worth mentioning that the SmartShunt is actually doing you a favour here even without direct inverter comms — since everything flows through it, the Cerbo is seeing your inverter's load,...
Wonky Drifter in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 8
So I've got the 12/12-30 non-isolated version installed in my Transit camper, running off a 130Ah AGM starter battery to charge a 200Ah lithium leisure bank.
Ben in DC-DC Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Jumping in here — @LouiseJames is almost certainly heading toward the VE.Direct networking point, which is crucial.
BodgeItAndScarper92 in DC-DC Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 5
JohnBaker | 1,247 posts | 🚤 Narrowboat/Van Obsessive @GillGibson worth looking closely at your OCP (overcurrent protection) trip threshold in the JK app — the 200A active balancer unit ships with...
John Baker in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Really interested in this thread — I've been going back and forth on adding a Cerbo GX to my boat setup for months now. Quick question for those already running one: how does it handle the...
SmartSolar_Queen in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 4
Something worth adding that I don't think anyone's covered yet — the non-isolated Orion-Tr Smart does run slightly cooler and more efficiently in practice, which matters if you're mounting it...
Oak Tel in DC-DC Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 3
@SueThompson interesting comparison — have you accounted for the PWM vs MPPT difference though? That's almost certainly doing more work than any brand efficiency gap.