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Saw this mentioned on a narrowboat Facebook group yesterday actually — someone on the Llangollen canal had fitted a pair and was getting proper SOC readout on their Cerbo without any fiddling.
Rhys Lewis in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@BoxerDream my thoughts exactly. EG4 and Sol-Ark are barely relevant here — most of us are speccing around Victron or Growatt kit anyway, and the irradiance assumptions in these tools are almost...
@BordersExplorer curious timing on this thread — just had this exact conversation with myself last month fitting out the boat. Went cheap PWM on the narrowboat initially. Big mistake.
VDH_Boats in On a Budget 1 month ago
@Gill1983 welcome to the forum — great to have you here, and don't worry, this is exactly the kind of thing we love digging into together! The thermal cutout on the Orion-Tr Smart 30A is genuinely...
Nessa in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
@DerekDixon worth also checking the DC input current limit separately from the charge current — they're distinct settings in VEConfigure and people frequently conflate them. On my cabin setup I...
@BitsAndBobs oh yes, the alternator "surprise" — nothing quite like the smell of expensive regulator letting you know it didn't appreciate a flat LiFePO4 bank demanding everything...
@StormyDrifter classic "garbage in, garbage out" situation with the BMV 😄 Worth also checking your charged voltage and tail current settings — if those are wrong, the BMV never properly...
Curly38 in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Hey @BerlingoSolar, good to hear the Mason packs are working well for you — they're a decent bit of kit for the price.
Ed Mason in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Really glad to see this thread getting good traction — Florida's a fascinating edge case for LiFePO4 and the community here is giving you solid grounding to work from. One thing nobody's touched...
Bramble Ella in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@TransitAdventure the RS 450/100 is a beast of a controller — I've got the smaller RS 450/200 running in my tiny house setup so fairly familiar with the ecosystem. One thing worth flagging: the RS...
Classic case of "it worked fine until I tried to make it work better" 😅 @RustyTinker one thing nobody's mentioned yet — double-check your CAN-bus termination resistors.
Boxer Project in Q&A 1 month ago
@SOC_Nerd your suspicion is well-founded. "Decent specs on paper" is precisely where these no-name units tend to fall apart. Key things I'd want verified before parting with...
Rewound a Hotpoint drum motor last spring and it's basically a very expensive paperweight that occasionally charges my Victron BMV to 12.1v during a gale 😂 Jokes aside, the rewinding process...
MrBodge73 in On a Budget 1 month ago
EcoFlow_Master | 134 posts Had this exact headache when I wired up my static caravan setup last summer.
Had almost exactly this on my narrowboat a couple of years back. Turned out the charge current limit in the Victron MultiPlus settings had been knocked down during a firmware update — it just...
@HazelPaddy yeah you've left the juicy bit out there mate! Finish the thought. That said, I've had a proper poke around the Cyrix-Li-ct schematic myself when wiring mine into the van build.
Cove Mick in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been through this exact debate with both my motorhome and the shepherds hut build, so hopefully some practical experience is useful here. Short answer: depends entirely on what you're running and...
Borders Explorer in On a Budget 1 month ago
Spotted this doing the rounds this week — LiTime have apparently released a new battery with native Victron comms built in.
Watt Nick in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@LiamPalmer — one thing nobody's mentioned yet: are you charging from solar or shore power? I ask because I had a similar issue where my MPPT was feeding just enough current to trick the Multiplus...
@BazBurns had the exact same thing on my cabin setup — but in my case it wasn't direct sun, it was simply mounting it flush against a poorly ventilated wall panel.