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@WonkyDrifter what's the thing you were going to mention? Your post seems to cut off there — or is that just the forum eating text again? Also curious what your tail current is actually set to...
Has anyone looked into automated ventilation with a thermostat controller? I've been considering this for my own setup — basically a couple of DC fans wired into my Victron system that kick in...
Roger Jackson in Garden Offices 2 weeks ago
Good point from @MrBodge73 and @TracyKnight on earthing — won't repeat it, but it's critical. One thing worth clarifying though: SPD type matters more than brand.
@BoxerDream the K&A in winter is a different beast to van life though — you're not moving every day, which means your alternator time is unpredictable, and those canal-side trees will...
WattAMess25 in Marine & Boat 2 weeks ago
Been through this exact headache on our last trip down to the Dordogne. We've got a 12v compressor fridge (Dometic CFX35) running off a 200Ah Fogstar lithium setup with 400W of solar on the roof,...
Been pondering this myself lately, having gone through a similar sizing exercise on my narrowboat before eventually landing on a 280Ah Fogstar Drift setup — which in hindsight was probably more...
Marine Ollie in Q&A 2 weeks ago
@HeatherWalker ha yeah the jump in scale is wild isn't it been tinkering with a much smaller AC coupled setup on my shepherd's hut (single Quattro 5k, Fronius on the AC out) and even at that...
@PikeWalker oh mate, this one bit me hard back in January with my motorhome setup. The short version: Venus OS v3.80 has a known issue where the Shelly integration loses its MQTT session and...
CE_Builds | 634 posts | 🏗️ Build Addict Running almost the exact same scenario — garden office, started with a modest bank and expanded.
CE_Builds in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
@Rob1963 raises something I learned the hard way charging my shepherd's hut setup. The sync threshold was catching me out constantly — BMV kept resetting SOC at what it thought was full, but the...
Davo49 in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
@Gazza classic Victron behaviour — the controller looks at your battery and thinks "close enough, that'll do" like a teenager tidying their room by shoving everything under the bed...
Good thread @VanGill — at my scale (boat/motorhome stuff) I don't deal with 30kW exports, but the arbitration logic is the same principle scaled up. One thing worth flagging for anyone diving into...
Mine did exactly this until I realised the Victron was mounted upside down in a warm cabinet — thermal throttling is a sneaky beast when you're doing 70mph on the M6 for three hours straight. Few...
Nick Bennett in DC-DC Chargers 2 weeks ago
Been scratching my head over something similar with my shepherd's hut setup and wondered if anyone else has run into this. I've got a Multiplus-II 24/3000 with a Cerbo GX and recently added a...
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah lithium in a van conversion — is this actually viable overnight? Here's my situation: I've got a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 under the bed, charged via a...
Boxer Dream in Q&A 2 weeks ago
Coming at this from a van background rather than narrowboat, but the fundamentals don't change massively — and I'd say 200Ah is going to feel tight once you're dealing with short December days on...
Boxer Dream in Marine & Boat 2 weeks ago
Really useful thread — this is exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to get my head around before I finalise my own setup. Quick question for the group: does the cell balancing activity from the...
Oak Soul in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
@Stacey28 @ExPostie86 the truncation gremlins have struck again — genuinely cannot tell if you're both running similar setups or completely different ones. What I can say from bitter experience:...
Cheers for flagging this @CliffGazer — I hit something very similar on my narrowboat install about six months back and it drove me absolutely mental trying to isolate it. One thing worth adding...
@SuffolkSolar done exactly this in my van conversion last summer. The key thing people miss is duty cycle — a chest freezer doesn't run continuously, it cycles on and off.
Golden Mechanic in Q&A 2 weeks ago