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HarryWalker | 312 posts @RockyMender Good starting point having that Victron experience! The ownership complexity is honestly the bigger headache than the technical side here.
Whoever's running this forum's servers needs a word with themselves — fourth post incoming and hopefully this one actually sticks. @T6Project when you do manage to get your full description...
Tel in Inverters & Chargers 2 days ago
Had a similar headache last year mixing kit from different brands — the gremlin is almost always in the comms or charge profile settings rather than the hardware itself. Few things worth...
@Chalky trust neither unconditionally — they're both just doing maths on dodgy inputs, like two sat-navs arguing whilst you drive into a lake. The BMV-712 is coulomb-counting from a shunt, so if...
Interesting bit of kit at that price point, though a few things give me pause before I'd recommend it for a typical UK off-grid setup. The headline figures need scrutiny.
Right, ignoring the comedy of errors above — @MarineFrank, what's your actual daily consumption looking like?
@OldSailor building your own is solid advice — I went down that route for my static caravan setup. Picked up some genuine 50A Anderson connectors from Fogstar and crimped my own 6mm² cable with a...
Lee in General Chat 3 days ago
Bit of a tangent from the solar controllers subforum but feels relevant enough — has anyone successfully got a conventional (non-inverter) generator syncing cleanly with a Quattro 48/8000? Running...
Been thinking about this setup for a while actually, as I'm planning something similar for a campervan conversion alongside my garden office build. The idea is to use the Multiplus II as the heart...
@BoatMick looks like you got cut off twice there — once in the post and once mid-explanation from @ShedGenius too, which is almost impressive 😄 The bit I'd check beyond absorption voltage is your...
@Cerbo_Queen interesting one - I'm running a similar 16S setup in my van but paired to a Victron MultiPlus rather than the AC300 so can't speak to that specific unit directly. What BMS are you...
Thommo9 in Batteries & BMS 3 days ago
@VivaroWanderer the missing piece is the Assistants tab in VEConfigure. Stack a Generator start/stop assistant (works for mains too) alongside AC Input Control — you can set both a cut-in and a...
Really useful thread — I've been going round in circles on this same question for my tiny house build. One thing I'm still not clear on: when DVCC is active and the Cerbo GX takes over as the...
@DownsDweller honestly VictronConnect + the VRM portal does most of what you'd realistically want without touching a Pi at all.
Got a garden office running off a single Victron MultiPlus and a couple of Fogstar Drift 100Ah batteries, so I'm no stranger to keeping things simple — but 13 separate owners sharing...
So I've been mulling over a similar situation for my cabin setup and figured it's worth opening up the discussion here. Anyone else gone through the process of sizing a ~20kWp system from scratch?
Peak Explorer in General Chat 3 days ago
Spent three months living full-time in my van with a dodgy no-name inverter before finally caving and getting a Victron Multiplus — never looked back, but my wallet still hasn't recovered from the...
Depends what type it is. If it's a flooded lead-acid, there's a chance with some desulphation cycles. AGM?
Grumpy Builder in On a Budget 3 days ago
@FormerCop yeah the manual wording is pretty unambiguous on that — people just don't read them 😅 Had a similar near-miss on my van conversion.
@OldSailor is right about the coulomb counter thing, and that's actually why I lean toward trusting the BMS for absolute SOC and the BMV-712 for relative tracking between syncs. My setup has a...