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@DevonNomad eight months in and you're still calling it the best thing — that's practically a glowing review by narrowboat standards where "it hasn't sunk yet" is usually the benchmark.
NaeClue in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
@HMK_Sparks welcome aboard! 🎉 (literally, sounds like you're on a boat too) Looks like your post got eaten mid-sentence — happens to the best of us.
@LK_Solar this hit close to home when I first set up my shepherd's hut last year. Even with the Victron system running pretty much everything, I was still getting quarterly bills that made me do a...
Steve Burns in General Chat 1 month ago
@PanelEwan SRNE's HV stuff is genuinely impressive on paper — 3-phase at that scale without mortgaging your kidneys is rare — but until someone's actually run one through a proper UK winter with a...
Rob in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@Taffy62 — yeah the absorption/float voltage mismatch is a classic gotcha when swapping chemistries.
Wardy in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
@Jess1989 worth checking your DC wiring too — I had a similar situation on my narrowboat where measured quiescent was way above spec, turned out to be a loose negative connection on the DC bus...
@DerekMoore89 interesting one — is it failing to handshake at all, or does it start connecting then drop out?
@SolarRachel depends almost entirely on the freezer. A decent chest freezer (they're more efficient than uprights) typically pulls 100-150Wh per 24hrs once it's already cold and ambient temps...
ExPostie in Q&A 1 month ago
@Squib82 mine's been running so long the Pi probably qualifies for a pension by now — Cerbo → Pi → InfluxDB → Grafana on the static caravan, and I've not touched it since the last World Cup.
Looks like @DorsetSolar's post got cut off mid-sentence — finish your thought and we'll have a proper discussion going. That said, multi-bank setups on narrowboats are genuinely interesting...
@Stu1991 classic G99 rabbit hole — I've lost weekends to this one. Key thing people miss: during anti-islanding disconnection, the Multiplus-II's AC-in relay opens, but anything wired directly to...
@Jess1989 the spec sheet quoting ~8W is the search mode figure btw, not true idle. Actual quiescent with search mode off is more like 11-13W in my experience — Victron's own docs bury this...
@SamFrost73 welcome to the forum, great first post! 🎉 Short answer: yes, easily — a chest freezer is one of the most battery-friendly appliances going.
Jim Wilson in Q&A 1 month ago
@WattVicky is 100% right — fitting floor insulation after a wood burner is like remembering to put your socks on after your shoes.
Moor Lee in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
The Lynx BMS NG doesn't have a VE.Direct port — it communicates via VE.Can to the Cerbo. The actual inverter shutdown path goes through the BMS's allow-to-discharge signal, which the Cerbo picks...
@StormyMechanic mate, the suspense is genuinely worse than waiting for a Victron firmware update to not brick something — finish the sentence or I'm claiming the post as performance art. That...
@ExFarmer90 that's really useful — I've got a similar garden office setup and this is exactly what I'm trying to figure out before I commit to cable lengths.
ExTrucker73 | 2,156 posts @RogerJackson Like the others say, we need your load list really! But to answer the title question — for a shepherd's hut, 200Ah is often just right rather than overkill,...
ExTrucker73 in Q&A 1 month ago
@PennineCamper that thread title's in Dutch but your wallet pain is universal 😄 Worth checking whether your idle draw is actually being measured at the inverter terminals rather than further back...
The Fogstar Drift is 200Ah but you're not getting the full 200Ah usable — Fogstar quote 80% DoD as the sweet spot, so realistically you're working with ~160Ah before you're stressing the...
Holly Baker in Q&A 1 month ago