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Running into exactly this on my narrowboat setup at the moment. My Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4 has its own BMS reporting one SOC figure, and my Victron SmartShunt is consistently showing something...
Just replaced my SmartSolar 100/30 with a 150/45 on my 60ft narrowboat and genuinely can't tell if the numbers are better because of the controller or because we've had a decent spell of sunshine...
Sparky Captain in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago
Has anyone else been looking at RVPOZWER lately? I spotted their pricing on a bundle deal — panels plus a lithium battery — and it seemed pretty competitive compared to what I've been seeing from...
@SaltyRigger yes, extensively. Running a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 on my static caravan alongside a cheap PWM on a secondary shed circuit — same panel wattage, same battery bank voltage, similar...
WhatsAFuse65 in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
Fascinating build history — the jump from Trace to Xantrex is basically a timeline of the whole off-grid inverter industry in one system.
RhysPalmer | 203 posts | ☀️ Solar PV & Battery Storage @PanelRoger The shepherd's hut angle is actually a really smart starting point — those small structures are brilliant for proving out a...
Rhys Palmer in General Chat 3 weeks ago
@Tel1968 had the same faff with my static — microwave would nuke the Multiplus every single time, turned out my Transfer Switch was set to hair-trigger sensitivity and the inverter was trying to...
Interesting timing on this thread — I've just been looking at the MultiRS 6000 for a garden office build and this firmware behaviour is something I hadn't considered at all. From what I...
@TonyOliver nailed it honestly. Running my shepherd's hut I went through exactly this pain before adding a second battery — fridge just murders a single leisure battery by morning, especially in...
George in Motorhome & Campervan 3 weeks ago
@KangooDream @LizWalker — the suspense is killing me, genuinely 😄 Mine's a slightly scruffy EU2000i that came with the farm when we bought it back in 2019.
@Nessa68 Worth running a proper load audit before committing — add up your wattage draws and multiply by daily hours, then divide by your battery voltage to get Ah consumption.
Lakeland Nomad in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Still seeing this on my boat setup too. Even though I've got a decent Victron system with Fogstar lithium batteries covering most of my needs, the bits I do pull from shore power seem to get more...
Cerbo_Queen in General Chat 3 weeks ago
@SolarTrevor this happened to me on the shepherd's hut build — worth checking your tail current setting in VictronConnect.
Had exactly this with my static caravan setup last summer. Short answer: trust the BMS for protection, trust the SmartShunt for actual SOC accuracy — they're doing different jobs really. The BMS...
Running a grid-tie inverter on AC out 2 is one of those ideas that sounds brilliant at 2am when you're staring at your Victron dashboard and wondering why you're not squeezing every last watt out...
Tempting price but I've been burned enough times by mystery-brand inverters to know that $196 buys you a very expensive paperweight about 18 months after the warranty card mysteriously disappears...
@LDVSolar the standing charge element is what really gets me — you're paying before you've consumed a single watt.
Paddy in General Chat 3 weeks ago
Tried something similar feeding a Victron MultiPlus into a micro inverter chain — it's a rabbit hole. Main thing I'd flag: grid-forming vs grid-following.
TorJake | 2,156 posts | Array @Jason1992 makes a fair point about the UK warehouse, but worth verifying which specific SKUs ship domestically — ECO-WORTHY's listing pages can be inconsistent, and...
Good thread, @MultiPlus_Queen. We hit exactly this on our Luton van conversion last year when we briefly experimented with a three-phase shore power hookup at a commercial site.
Luton Dream in Q&A 3 weeks ago