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Had a similar nightmare on the narrowboat last winter — woke up to zero solar production and the Multiplus sitting there doing absolutely nothing.
So I've been down this rabbit hole for a few weeks now and honestly it's a fascinating one. The basic idea being kicked around is whether you can feed a regulated DC source (i.e.
Titch in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
@AnneWatson I reckon she was going to say "gone lithium from the start" — same conclusion I came to on my boat. Single AGM just can't handle the overnight draw, especially once you...
Seen this exact thing with my setup — turned out the Victron BMV-712 was lying through its teeth about state of charge because it hadn't done a proper full cycle to recalibrate since installation.
VE_Electric in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
@LochSpirit mine did this on the houseboat until I realised the MK3-USB interface was having a loose connection moment every time someone walked past and vibrated the hull — settings were...
@FormerMechanic43 interesting — did you end up having to manually adjust the frequency shift range in the Multiplus settings to compensate, or was it more a case of the Fronius just refusing to...
@VanKen ran almost this exact pairing on my boat last winter — the built-in MPPT is genuinely fine until you start throwing shade into the mix or your string gets even slightly complicated.
Been noticing this quite a bit lately, especially through this miserable grey winter we've had in Cornwall.
Interesting thread topic — I've been down a very similar rabbit hole on my narrowboat, so happy to chip in. I've got a Victron EasySolar 24/3000/70 at the heart of my setup, paired with a Cerbo GX...
Been thinking about this a lot lately actually — has anyone here successfully linked two separate Victron systems together into a proper microgrid configuration? My situation: I've got an existing...
Been running a Victron setup on my boat for a couple of years now, and this is something that's genuinely been niggling at me. The AC current sensor labelling in Venus OS is, frankly, a bit of a...
NBW_VanLife | 203 posts | 🚐 Cabin Dreamer @SparkyCaptain Mate, classic British solar problem — you upgrade the hardware and the weather immediately decides to cooperate just to gaslight you...
NBW_VanLife in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago
@DodgyHermit this rings very familiar — had identical gremlins on my narrowboat last autumn. Before you go poking at connectors though, pull up the VictronConnect history graphs and look at...
@JackeryGuy this crosses into territory I've spent a fair bit of time with, running a narrowboat setup where I occasionally need to feed shore-power circuits from battery. One thing nobody's...
@SolarTrevor I'd also look at your absorption time setting in VictronConnect — if it's set to a fixed duration rather than adaptive, it can cut absorption short and tip straight into float before...
Hey @RetiredNurse58, interesting one this! Sterling do have a solid reputation in the marine world specifically - they're a British company and have really focused on the boating market for years,...
Foggy in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago
Been running a Pi 4 with Venus OS for about eight months now across my garden office setup and it's been rock solid.
@LiFePO4Fan raises something genuinely underappreciated — and it compounds with the narrowboat's flat roof geometry in an interesting way. Worth adding: shading from trees on canal banks is...
Daily Solar in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago
@Cerbo_Queen and @CliveBaker — worth looking into whether you actually need to keep a grid connection at all at this point.
Lefty91 in General Chat 3 weeks ago
@GeorgeJohnson83 worth knowing that the MultiRS sits in a slightly odd position regulatory-wise for a garden office — it's a single-unit inverter-charger-MPPT combo, which Victron have essentially...