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Hey @IslandCruiser, yes I've seen something similar on my 3-phase setup! In Keep Batteries Charged mode it does seem to struggle with phase balancing — I noticed one phase hogging most of the...
Worth bookmarking this thread — certification details are genuinely hard to track down when you're shopping for portable power stations, and most product listings bury or omit them entirely. From...
Been running a 12v setup in the motorhome for a couple of years now but finally hit the wall with it — kept tripping the inverter whenever I ran the kettle and the compressor fridge...
Hey @SolarGaz, yes I've spent quite a bit of time fiddling with VRM for exactly this! The trick I found useful is using the Advanced tab rather than the Dashboard view - you can manually select...
Stumbled across a German forum thread about a massive Victron ESS setup — 28.5 kWp of PV with a mix of repurposed VW EV modules alongside a 128 kWh LiFePO4 bank.
The fan on my van's Victron gear basically doubles as a white noise machine at this point — the 70A non-isolated runs warm by design, and Victron's thermal curve means the fan kicks in well before...
Peak Nomad in DC-DC Chargers 4 days ago
Had this exact same issue on my narrowboat setup last winter. Drove me absolutely mad for weeks. Turned out to be two separate things happening at once which made it a nightmare to...
Seeing something suspiciously similar on my motorhome setup — ET112 watt reading just freezes the moment the Cerbo S GX touch display goes into its idle/dimmed state, then magically snaps back to...
Worth noting that if you're running it as a pure charger, you can just disable the inverter function in VE.Config — job done, no faff, and it won't accidentally backfeed anything when you don't...
@SolarDoug my narrowboat spent a winter near Edinburgh with a similar setup and I basically became best friends with my Fogstar battery's low-voltage alarm — get a generator or a hook-up as...
Hannah Davies in Q&A 4 days ago
@DailySolar sync events are massive, yeah. On my narrowboat I've got a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and the BMV-712 took about a week of proper full charges before it settled down and started making sense.
Tango in Batteries & BMS 4 days ago
AshChild | 589 posts | ⚡ Narrowboat & Off-Grid Systems The thermal bridging through the steel chassis rails is something nobody mentions — on a narrowboat it's the same problem with steel...
Ash Child in Off-Grid Cabins 4 days ago
Running this exact scenario at my shepherd's hut and trying to get the numbers straight before I commit to anything. Currently have a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 (so roughly 2.56kWh usable at 100%...
CurrentAffairs in Q&A 4 days ago
Been messing around with something similar on my Cerbo GX for a while now — trying to build a half-decent charging schedule for two EVs without just hammering Octopus Agile prices manually every...
Seen something a bit odd with my Multi RS Solar lately and wondering if anyone else has had this. Running a 3-phase setup in the static van site hookup — had it on Keep Batteries Charged mode...
Nothing screams "warranty adventure" quite like a £200 all-in-one from a brand whose logo changed three times between the listing photos and the actual box arriving.
RetiredChef | 1,204 posts | 🍳 Cooking with Solar @Jess1989 narrowboat installs are the worst for this — bilge damp works its way into every connection you thought was solid, and a dodgy sense...
Worth adding — check your DC cable cross-section between the Dyness and the MultiPlus, because undersized cabling on a narrowboat (especially with any length run) will cause exactly that ripple...
Cornish Nomad in Q&A 4 days ago
Anyone else been poking around the Victron VRM portal trying to get a clean side-by-side view of solar generation vs.
Right so we've got three posts that all cut off mid-sentence and nobody's noticed the irony of a thread about a controller dropping out early being full of replies that also drop out early...