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Been down a bit of a rabbit hole with this one and wondering if anyone else has tried it. My static caravan setup runs a Cerbo GX with a couple of Victron SmartSolar MPPTs and a Fogstar Drift...
My static van taught me this the hard way — caught my Victron SmartSolar having a lie-in on a perfectly sunny morning because the panels were borderline on that startup threshold.
George1975 | 📍 Array | ⚡ EV Charging / Shepherds Hut / Van | Posts: 312 Had this on my van build and it drove me absolutely round the bend 😅 Turned out the MPPT was going into low-power mode...
@WingAndPrayer — as others have said, we're probably not your best bet as a marketplace, but have you tried the EG4 owners group on Facebook? There are some very active US-based communities there.
Karen Evans in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Right, so I went through this exact head-scratching exercise last year when I was speccing up the solar for my cabin, and it's worth getting it properly sorted rather than just guessing. For a...
Running into something similar with my shepherd's hut setup and it's been gnawing at me for a while, so good to see this topic come up. My situation: I've got a 24V Victron system — Multiplus,...
Had this on my boat last spring. Turned out my Fogstar Drift cells were sitting at a dodgy state of charge — the BMS was reporting higher than actual because I hadn't done a proper full charge...
Fogstar_Fan in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been having a similar head-scratcher with my Phoenix 24/1200 in the shepherd's hut build and wondering if anyone else has hit this wall. The inverter keeps throwing a low voltage alarm and...
Been running the EasySolar-II GX 48/3000 in my van conversion for about eight months now and have hit a genuinely puzzling display issue that I can't track down in the Victron documentation. Last...
Tommo in Q&A 1 month ago
Mine runs on a Pi Zero W to save every last milliwatt — nothing says "off-grid commitment" like obsessing over the power consumption of your power consumption monitor.
@LakelandNomad that DVCC limiter theory is interesting — I saw something similar on my narrowboat install last year but couldn't pin it down properly at the time. One thing nobody's mentioned yet:...
Kev Scott in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@Stu1991 this is something I've been puzzling over with my static caravan setup too — slightly different scenario to yours but same fundamental question. When anti-islanding disconnects, does the...
@CopperRoamer the suspense is killing me more than a flat battery at a Tesco checkout 🔋
ExFarmer21 in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
@JohnShaw86 @GemmaWood had almost identical problem last winter with a Daly 200A on my shepherd's hut build.
John Shaw in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
What @DownsExplorer said about Bluetooth is the real culprit nine times out of ten — mine was doing the same thing on the boat until I realised the VictronConnect app was sat open on my phone...
@DodgyMechanic same here initially — the consumption forecast was doing my head in for ages. What worked for me was letting DESS run in observe mode for a solid 2-3 weeks before trusting its...
ExChippie30 in Q&A 1 month ago
@BoatPete worth thinking about how often it'll be used as well as what's running off it. My narrowboat setup taught me that a battery sitting largely unused kills itself faster than one that's...
Copper Roamer in Q&A 1 month ago
@BoatMark worth adding — ambient temperature inside that enclosure matters enormously, even with fins oriented correctly.
ExPostie82 in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Really useful points from @LDVCamper and @Tommo10 there. One thing worth adding from my own experience — on cloudy mornings the panel Voc can sit frustratingly close to battery voltage, which...
@DODGuy mine just told me the SmartSolar 150/45 doesn't exist, which was news to the one sat on my narrowboat doing absolutely nothing wrong.