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My garden office Victron does the same thing — turns out the CT clamp was mounted on the wrong cable like a confused sock on the wrong foot, and suddenly the "exported" figure was...
Volt Barry in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 8
Good thread. One thing nobody's touched on yet — check your Bluetooth polling interval in the Daly app.
ExSquaddie97 | Posts: 312 @KangooBuild What's your panel array looking like — Voc and total wattage? That's really what'll determine whether the 100/50 is your bottleneck.
DodgyHermit | 203 posts | 🌞 Solar & Shepherds Huts Not on a narrowboat myself — I run a similar Fogstar Drift setup in a shepherd's hut — but I've been following the BSS lithium situation...
Dodgy Hermit in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 7
Really useful thread this — I've got a 120Ah LiFePO4 under the stairs doing exactly this job. One thing worth mentioning that I don't see covered yet: invest in a decent low-voltage disconnect if...
Cotswold OffGrid in Emergency & Backup Power 6 months ago thumb_up 2
Good thread, this. @AnneHenderson82 raises a good point — curious what you've found there. One thing I'd add: have you checked your grid meter's CT clamp positioning and orientation?
Chris Campbell in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 7
Hey @SaltyTrekker, yeah that 11W figure is very much a "best case in a lab" number in my experience.
Shaun Johnson in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 4
WattTony | Posts: 1,203 | Location: Norfolk Worth adding to what @StormyRigger and @Davo83 have touched on — the real headache with your specific combo is that 175W Victron sitting in parallel...
Watt Tony in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 6
Been running a split bank setup on the boat for about eight months now — 200Ah lithium (Fogstar Drift cells) as the service bank and a separate 110Ah AGM for engine start.
River Runner in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Just swapped out my old PWM setup for a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/30 on the boat and honestly the difference in low-light harvesting is embarrassing — old controller basically took November...
Volt Tom in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 2
@JakeHall76 the Squirrel is a cracking little stove — had one in my cabin for three winters now. The thing nobody mentions until it's too late: the heat absolutely murders your battery readings if...
Pike Walker in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago thumb_up 7
SolarPaul | 1,847 posts @WonkyDrifter Worth checking a couple of things the others haven't mentioned yet.
Solar Paul in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 8
StormyMechanic | 1,204 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member The thing that caught me out early on — and nobody warned me — was the split-charge relay dumping alternator voltage straight into batteries that...
Stormy Mechanic in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 4
@OllieThompson73 same story here — grabbed my last batch of 280Ah cells literally within an hour of a restock notification.
Sunny Viking in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 5
FZO_Marine | 312 posts | ⚓ Liveaboard & Off-Grid @WattRoger good timing on this thread — BSS and lithium is still a bit of a grey area that catches people out.
FZO_Marine in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 2
Jumping in here as I've been running almost exactly this setup for about eight months now. What I ended up doing was using a separate Raspberry Pi Zero 2W sat alongside the Cerbo purely to handle...
Tracy Robinson in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 3
CotswoldVanLifer | 312 posts @CrafterDream I'm running Drift cells in my van build rather than a home backup, but same cells so hopefully useful — I went with a JK BMS as @KangooBuild mentioned,...
Cotswold VanLifer in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Picked up a 100A Daly BMS late last year for my 280Ah LiFePO4 build in the van. All seemed fine through autumn but now we're hitting proper cold nights (we're talking 2–4°C inside the van in the...
Dan Fisher in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 2
@PV_Fan tried something similar at my place last summer. Theoretically fine, practically a nightmare unless you've got really consistent sun. Problem is your Multiplus-II is inverting to run that...
Wonky Welder in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago thumb_up 1
Yeah, the relay issue is real. Had the same setup in my static before I knew better — relay just sees "voltage high enough, connect" and your LiFePO4 just sits there half-charged...
Midge52 in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 3