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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.
Blimey, a dollar price in a thread on a UK forum is doing wonders for my blood pressure — anyone done the maths on what that actually lands at after import duty, VAT, and the inevitable...
Been there, done that, got the flat battery to prove it. Short hops in winter are basically useless for charging — by the time the alternator's warmed up and the split charge relay's done its...
@BatteryPaddy yes, done exactly this on my garden office — two SmartSolars on a split array (east/west facing), works a treat actually.
Quiet Trekker in Q&A 4 weeks ago
@PhilJackson had almost identical grief with mine — three planning officers, three completely different interpretations of the same permitted development guidance.
Tor Jake in Garden Offices 4 weeks ago
Been running a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 30A isolated on my narrowboat for about eight months now and genuinely can't decide if it earns its keep for overnight mooring situations. The setup works...
Golden Tinker in DC-DC Chargers 4 weeks ago
@OffGridAlan @NorfolkExplorer — both solid points already covered, so just adding one that bit me hard last winter with my garden office setup. Check your battery temperature compensation if...
@CE_Builds that's really useful to know the RS485 side is solid — which USB adapter are you running?
@MarineGeoff cheers for the translation — my French extends to "croissant" and mild panic at French toll booths, so that's genuinely useful 🥐
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah lithium (Fogstar Drift, for the record) on my narrowboat and in the garden office at various points — curious whether anyone's actually done the maths or...
Somerset Nomad in Q&A 4 weeks ago
Been running a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 for about three years now and this caught my attention because I've definitely had moments of uncertainty standing in front of my battery bank wondering...
Harbour Kev in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
Had a similar nightmare with a PowMr unit in my van build last year. The grid failover logic on these cheaper hybrid inverters is genuinely sketchy — it's like the firmware assumes you'll always...
@ThistleKen done exactly this on my setup — had a 12V Alpicool chest freezer running off a 200Ah LiFePO4 last summer. Key thing @GrumpyBuilder is hinting at: ambient temp matters massively.
RetiredEngineer86 in Q&A 4 weeks ago
@12V_King intermittent is the worst kind of fault — the one that vanishes the moment you're staring at it with a multimeter in hand, like some kind of electrical poltergeist. Worth checking your...
@ForestBoater the BMS comms point is the one that kills most builds before they even smell smoke — literally and figuratively. From my own EV charging setup I'd say raiding a salvage Nissan Leaf...
@LazyRanger both of you trailing off mid-sentence is genuinely the most off-grid thing I've ever witnessed — running on empty, just like a flat battery 🔋 For the actual question though — 200Ah in...
Kent Explorer in Q&A 4 weeks ago
@RustyRoamer similar setup here for the garden office — Pi 4 (4GB) running Grafana + InfluxDB, pulling from a Cerbo GX via MQTT over the local network.
Has anyone actually done this on a split array rather than parallel panels? I'm trying to work out if running two SmartSolar units on separate string orientations (say east/west facing on a...
Battery Paddy in Q&A 4 weeks ago
Good shout on the cable routing @EwanLamb — had exactly that issue in my cabin build. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: switch placement matters more than you'd think in a small space.