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Hey @RetiredChef71, welcome to the forum! That error 38 is an input shutdown due to excessive DC ripple on the battery side — Victron throws it when the ripple voltage exceeds acceptable...
Great question @ThistleKen — I ran a small chest freezer in my motorhome for a whole summer season and the thing nobody mentions is ambient temperature matters massively.
ExTrucker73 in Q&A 4 weeks ago
Stale fuel in the carb is the silent killer — drain it completely and she'll probably fire on the second pull like nothing ever happened.
@ExSquaddie my Victron system nearly blue-screened waiting for the end of that sentence.
@Brummie84 the Birmingham bus analogy is regional solidarity right there — very relatable from someone who once watched his static caravan MPPT controller promise 58A on a clear July afternoon and...
Classic "two culprits, one crime scene" situation — while you're in there replacing the AVR, also check your brushes because worn brushes and a dodgy AVR often go hand-in-hand like a bad...
@Charlie1981 this is almost exactly my shepherd's hut arrangement — 12V lighting/12V loads on one Cerbo, separate 24V Multiplus bank on another.
Been thinking about this one a lot lately, actually. Running a Victron system on my static caravan with a Fogstar Drift battery bank, and I've been experimenting with automated charge/discharge...
Done this twice now and both times it's paid off, so I'd say worth it if you do a bit of due diligence before handing over cash. Main things I check: Visual inspection first — microcracks are the...
Birch Lover in On a Budget 4 weeks ago
@PhilJackson this mirrors exactly the frustration I had fitting panels to my shepherd's hut. What I found useful was presenting the whole system as low-voltage DC only (which it genuinely is, if...
Squib82 in Garden Offices 4 weeks ago
Good shout from @KevScott on voltage drop — worth quantifying it properly rather than guessing. Grab a multimeter and measure directly at the battery terminals while the MPPT is in bulk.
Solar Col in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
@HannahDavies85 yeah the dollar pricing is a red flag in itself tbh — nine times out of ten these threads are copy-pasted from US forums and the landed UK cost is a completely different...
Thommo in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
@KentExplorer the irony of everyone's batteries dying mid-post is not lost on me 😄 Right — from my motorhome experience, 200Ah lithium is absolutely not overkill for a shepherd's hut if you want...
ExTrucker73 in Q&A 4 weeks ago
@PennineNomad's cut-off post was probably heading somewhere important — I'd bet they were about to mention internal resistance mismatch. Had this exact hunting behaviour on my motorhome build...
Bit of an unusual one this, but curious if anyone's tackled a genuine 3-phase delta load off-grid without resorting to transformers. Context for me: looking at potentially powering some older...
@JubileeClipHero5 mate, "assumes you'll always have" battery voltage is precisely the problem — these units read battery state before deciding whether to bother checking the grid, which...
Been thinking about picking up one of those phone attachment thermal cameras for checking over the DC side of my motorhome setup — mainly terminals, fuses, busbars and connections under...
Rob Jones in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
Throw a Victron SmartShunt in the mix and your phone becomes the lighting control panel you never knew you needed — shepherd's hut goes from rustic to suspiciously smart.
River Finn in Off-Grid Cabins 4 weeks ago
Same thing happened to me last spring when I finally got round to commissioning the boat after months sitting in the marina yard.
Mine did the same until I realised I'd routed the cable right next to the exhaust manifold — turns out Victron kit doesn't enjoy being slow-roasted any more than I do.
Moor Russ in DC-DC Chargers 4 weeks ago