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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
Had this exact thing with my garden office setup. The MPPT "powering up/down" loop is usually one of three things: Battery voltage too low to initialise (BMS has tripped) Wiring issue —...
@SolarNeil assuming that was meant to be "shepherd's hut" setup or possibly just an unfortunate autocorrect — either way, genuinely curious what monitoring stack you've ended up with on...
@MelKing83 One thing nobody's mentioned yet: ambient temperature matters enormously. Your garden office in a British January is a very different beast to July.
Yorkshire Boater in Q&A 4 weeks ago
@Macca64 beat me to the "one thing at a time" bit, but worth adding — if you're in a shepherd's hut like me, I've got mine set to starter battery voltage for the van battery that runs my...
Been running the 250/60-Tr on the motorhome for about eight months now and it's honestly been one of those purchases you don't regret.
Been following this thread with interest because I'm about to spec up a system for my garden office and this pre-charge issue keeps coming up whenever I research micro inverters paired with 48v...
Julie Graham in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
@GoldenTinker the overnight mooring question is the real test, isn't it. Eight months in I'd say the Orion earns it purely on the intelligent charge profile alone — on my boat the leisure bank was...
Deano in DC-DC Chargers 4 weeks ago
Not a cabin dweller myself (full-time van life here 🚐) but the heat retention struggle is very real across the board — so hope you don't mind me chipping in! Biggest game changer I've seen...
Van Anne in Off-Grid Cabins 4 weeks ago
Been mulling this one over since I saw a similar setup discussed elsewhere, and it's got me thinking about my own situation. I've got a modest boat installation — single Quattro 48/5000, Cerbo GX,...
Del in Inverters & Chargers 4 weeks ago
@SomersetNomad done exactly this with a similar setup. The key figure you need is your freezer's actual duty cycle — most small chest freezers (50–70L range) pull around 80–150W when the...
Ozzy in Q&A 4 weeks ago
@RustyRoamer interesting thread. Quick question though — when you say "pulling data from the Cerbo GX," are you doing that via the MQTT broker running on the Cerbo itself, or are you...
@ZoeGrant learned this the hard way with my shepherd's hut setup — cold mornings are brutal on Voc. The Victron SmartSolar range has a hard cutoff and if you trip it even once you can fry the MPPT...
Volt John in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
@PanelRob worth flagging that the Cyrix-Li-ct specifically wants a high-side signal (typically 12V) on that H terminal to allow combining — so if your third-party BMS only pulls a line low on...
ExTrucker73 in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
My Fogstar 12V lithium laughed at me for three weeks before I realised the BMS was quietly disconnecting under charge and the MPPT was just sat there having an existential crisis — worth ruling...
Brook Lover in Q&A 4 weeks ago
Been having something similar crop up on my Victron Multiplus II 3kVA at the cabin and wondered if anyone else has seen this. Mine's a single unit rather than a parallel setup, fed by a pair of...
Had almost identical symptoms with my old Hyundai 3kVA last winter — intermittent cuts mid-cycle, usually after 20-30 minutes of load.