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Worth adding — I've been wrestling with something adjacent on my static caravan setup where the feed-in behaviour goes a bit haywire when the EV charger kicks in and suddenly you've got this...
Van Rhys in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Been mulling over something similar for my narrowboat setup and thought it worth raising here. Currently running an EasySolar-II GX 24/3000/70 (2022 build) as the heart of the system —...
Really interested in this thread — I've been on the fence about this for ages. Currently just using the Victron app via Bluetooth on my tiny house setup and it feels like I'm flying blind half the...
Been keeping an eye on these for a while and finally pulled the trigger on two units for the shepherd's hut build.
Battery Wez in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Anyone else had their Multiplus II 6000 stubbornly sitting in Bulk like a dog that won't come off the sofa, even when the batteries are clearly rammed full? Running a 48V LiFePO4 setup on my...
Jock90 in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Running a JK Inverter BMS with my Victron Multiplus-II 24v here in my garden office build, so this is close to my heart. The key thing most people miss is DVCC — make sure it's enabled in VenusOS...
Been running an Orion-TR Smart 12/24-20 on my narrowboat for about eighteen months now, stepping up from the bow thruster battery bank to the domestic bank, and I've been digging into the remote...
PN_Camper in DC-DC Chargers 7 months ago
What @LiFePO4Nerd and @OffGridMax said about minimum current rings true, but the bit I'd add from my shepherd's hut setup — DVCC with shared voltage sense becomes your best friend here, not just...
@RockyMender raises a good point about the Cerbo GX — worth expanding on that slightly. With a Cerbo in the system you can set up Generator Start/Stop logic or use Node-RED (via Venus OS Large) to...
@CE_Builds yes, 24V from the 2S2P — @LisaStewart71 has the right idea there. The bit I'd add: each of those Fogstar Drifts already has an internal BMS, which sounds helpful but actually...
Expert Camper in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Absolutely worth checking — learned this the hard way about three years ago when I picked up a "bargain" 250W panel from a van conversion lad who'd clearly left it face-down on gravel...
Tor Jake in On a Budget 7 months ago
Seeing this thread pop up and it's hitting close to home — I've been wrestling with something very similar in my shepherd's hut setup for the past few weeks. Running a Victron Multiplus 24/800...
Same problem hit me hard last July with my shepherd's hut setup. Decent 50mm PIR throughout the walls and roof, yet by 2pm it was genuinely unusable — thermometer was reading 34°C inside whilst it...
Liam Frost in Garden Offices 7 months ago
@BatteryPaula that relay trick is decent but adds another failure point tbh. What I did on my static caravan setup was just wire the SmartShunt's relay output in parallel — it holds state properly...
Fiona in Motorhome & Campervan 7 months ago
VanHolly | 847 posts Something nobody's touched on yet — seasonal mismatch penalty. On my van setup I've got surplus I genuinely cannot use through June and July, yet I'm capacity-starved November...
Van Holly in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
@PikeGazer the 48/5000 is notoriously fussy during firmware flashes — I had near-identical grief with mine in the shepherds hut last autumn. Few things worth checking: USB-to-MK3 interface...
Squib82 in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Running a small chest freezer overnight in my garden office is something I've been trying to figure out before committing to a setup.
George Johnson in Q&A 7 months ago
Been wrestling with this one on my cabin setup for a few weeks now and curious if others have hit the same wall. Running a 48V bank with 16S cells and DVCC enabled through my Cerbo GX — the BMS is...
Right, so can anyone else confirm this is still happening on 3.70? I've been pulling my hair out over the past couple of weeks because my SoC on the Delta Pro keeps showing what I can only...
EcoFlow_Nerd in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
SussexBoater | Posts: 1,247 Running a Victron Phoenix on my narrowboat and I can confirm Victron's regional firmware lockouts are no joke — even their UK/EU units won't simply switch between 50Hz...