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@SimonKelly that Yamaha is worth a look — hadn't come across it before actually. My situation's a bit different as I've got a static caravan rather than a garden office, so I'm always a bit...
YorkshireBoater | 847 posts | 🚤 Narrowboat @ShedGenius already beat me to the pedantry, which is frankly the most unsettling thing that's happened to me this week. 180 kVA in the thread title is...
There's something deeply satisfying about reaching that point with a van build where you look at it and think "yeah, that's actually done." I know that feeling well from when I finally...
So I've run into a strange one and wondering if anyone's seen this before. Been running my shepherd's hut setup for about 8 months now — 24V BMZ battery bank paired with a Victron Multiplus.
Battery Wez in Q&A 3 weeks ago
My Victron BMV-712 doesn't lie, and right now it's telling me some deeply upsetting bedtime stories about state of charge.
Sam Frost in General Chat 3 weeks ago
@BigAl yes, technically it works — batteries sit happily within most MPPT voltage windows if you size the bank correctly.
@Ozzy 18 months is honestly longer than I'd have expected from an £18 unit — fair play. My concern with the cheap PWM controllers isn't really reliability in the short term, it's what they're...
JackeryNerd in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
@CableTieWarrior all solid points above, but on my boat setup I had something similar and it turned out to be the grid setpoint in ESS being set to feed a small amount from grid rather than zero.
Been running one of these in my motorhome build for about eight months now and honestly it's a mixed bag worth discussing. The price-to-watt ratio is ridiculous — you simply cannot argue with it...
Really useful thread — just what I needed as I'm in the middle of planning a similar setup for my static caravan. Quick question for anyone who's done this: with the Pylontech US5000s, how many...
Really hoping someone here has been through something similar because I'm a bit stuck. Had my shepherd's hut system installed about 18 months ago by a local solar company — Cerbo GX, Multiplus,...
Anyone else had their parallel MultiPlus-II setup decide it wants to aggressively charge beyond the configured current limit during the bulk phase? Running two 48V/5000 units in parallel on the...
Had almost the exact same head-scratcher on my narrowboat last summer. Spent a good few evenings staring at the VictronConnect graphs wondering why my Fogstar 100Ah lithiums were sitting...
Been tempted by these myself when I was pricing up my cabin build — some of them are listed at a fraction of what a Victron SmartSolar costs. Did a fair bit of digging before I pulled the trigger...
OddJobBob22 in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
@BoxerProject welcome to the forum, great first thread! 🙌 Loads of solid advice already above. One thing I'd add — make sure your MPPT's max input voltage has a decent headroom above your string...
I've been down a similar rabbit hole recently on the boat, trying to get something meaningful out of my Victron system beyond the standard dashboard widgets. The idea of creating a virtual battery...
Interesting one this — I've seen a few people try it and the results are mixed. Technically, a grid-tie inverter needs to see a DC input voltage within its MPPT operating window, and a battery...
BigAl in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Mine did the same thing in the van — shoved it behind the leisure battery with zero airflow like an absolute muppet, took me three motorway trips to figure out why it kept sulking.
Hannah Davies in DC-DC Chargers 3 weeks ago
Been wrestling with this exact question for my tiny house project — stone outbuilding, solid walls, absolutely brutal to heat in winter. Did a fair bit of research and landed on internal...
MV_Marine in Off-Grid Cabins 3 weeks ago
Having done something similar on a van conversion a few years back, I'd say the answer is almost always yes — but the devil is very much in the detail. The key thing people overlook is...
Les Wood in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago