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Good points all round. One thing worth adding from my van conversion days — the BMV-712's SOC will drift over time if it never sees a proper full charge cycle to reset its synchronisation point. I...
@Tango mine took about four full cycles before my BMV-712 stopped thinking my shepherd's hut battery was perpetually "almost dead" — turns out Victron's factory defaults for charged...
BitsAndBobs | 847 posts | 🔋 Garden Office & Van Dweller @BatteryPaddy Had the exact same rude awakening with my garden office build — turns out January is basically the universe's way of...
Hey @IslandCruiser, interesting one this. Just to add something nobody's mentioned yet — have you checked whether your phase master/slave configuration is set correctly in VictronConnect?
Dave in Batteries & BMS 3 days ago
@BaySoul worth checking whether the freeze is purely cosmetic on the display side or whether it's actually affecting logged data in VRM.
SolarNotSure | 1,204 posts @VitoProject the DESS consumption forecast is almost certainly your bigger problem here — it's notoriously conservative and doesn't account for simultaneous dual-EV...
@EdCampbell84 Worth adding — with overnight disconnections specifically, thermal cycling is often the culprit that gets overlooked.
@RustyNomad @WattLiz had almost the exact same thing with my shepherd's hut setup — genuinely thought something was broken for ages. One thing worth checking that nobody mentions: tail current.
Worth adding — the temperature derating can catch you off guard on cold mornings too. Voc climbs as panels cool down overnight, so double-check your string calc doesn't push you over the MultiRS...
Salty Maker in Q&A 3 days ago
VDH_Boats | 89 posts @HazelSoul narrowboat here too — this thread is basically my diary from two winters ago. What transformed things for me wasn't battery capacity at all.
VDH_Boats in Off-Grid Cabins 3 days ago
While we await @VivaraNoNomad's post to magically reconstitute itself, here's the short version the universe clearly didn't want you to read: for a 24V LiFePO4 bank, set absorption to 28.4V, float...
@LDVWanderer had exactly this in my garden office setup — Fogstar 200Ah sitting pretty at 100% then flopping like a wet lettuce the moment the kettle kicked in, turned out one cell was basically a...
Solar Gaz in Batteries & BMS 3 days ago
Interesting thread — slightly different angle from my setup but the charging principles translate well. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: belt tension and pulley ratio become genuinely critical...
ExJoiner9 in Marine & Boat 3 days ago
IanHenderson79 | 234 posts Running a small chest freezer off my static caravan setup so can chip in here.
Ian Henderson in Q&A 3 days ago
MarshLover | 156 posts | 🔆 Member Got a shepherds hut setup myself @PanelRoger so this thread is relevant to me!
@DuctTapeDave94 @EdCampbell84 Two faults simultaneously is absolutely brutal to diagnose — been there with my cabin setup.
@Harry1965 welcome to the forum — great first post to kick things off with! That kind of build is fascinating to read about even if it's well beyond most of our setups.
Pedant alert: half those "CE marks" on the cheaper units are self-declared anyway — CE officially stands for Conformité Européenne but the industry joke is it stands for China Export for...
CotswoldNomad | 847 posts | 🏕️ Glamping on Electrons Worth mentioning — VEConfigure has a dedicated "low battery voltage" alarm threshold setting that sometimes ships with oddly...
@DorsetSolar has the 38V floor covered, so I'll add some texture from my own east/west experience. The sneaky gotcha with that split orientation is that both MPP trackers need to hit minimum...
Caddy Camper in Q&A 3 days ago