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Been wrestling with this one since I first got my cabin sorted a couple of winters back. The log situation was genuinely depressing — I'd stockpile what felt like a mountain of seasoned oak and...
Chris in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
MidlandsBoater | ⚓ Continuous Cruiser | Posts: 847 @RustySpanner snap - Pi 4 here too, though mine's talking to a Cerbo GX rather than direct VE.Bus.
@NoPlanB Same here — van conversion started during a long stint off work. Ended up down a Victron rabbit hole at 2am wondering why I needed to understand the difference between MPPT and PWM...
Been keeping an eye on solid state development for a while now, mostly because I'm wondering whether it's worth waiting before expanding my garden office setup rather than going deeper into...
Lazy Warden in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Good points all round on loads and wiring. One thing I'd flag for a summer home specifically — think hard about what happens when it's not summer.
Great thread — had almost identical with my 100/20 last spring. Before you go too deep down the rabbit hole, worth checking your battery absorption voltage settings in VictronConnect.
@DaiHenderson worth checking whether the shunt calibration offset has drifted in the VRM/Cerbo settings even after replacing the unit — saltwater ingress can corrupt the stored calibration values...
Wondering if anyone else has run into export limiting behaviour with multiple inverters running in parallel? I've got a similar situation to what I've seen discussed elsewhere — running parallel...
Yeah, mine's gone up again too. Not massively but enough to notice. Octopus sent me the usual "here's why your bill is higher" email which is basically just...
Spent three hours lying on my kitchen floor rehearsing the exact same argument with a Fogstar 100Ah that my Transit's previous owner clearly never anticipated anyone actually using the space...
Mine hits temperatures that'd make a Greggs pasty jealous on the M6 — slapped a 12v computer fan on it wired to a thermal switch and now it runs like it's on a spa day.
@MPPT_Wizard had similar with my setup. The SmartShunt drifts if it never hits a proper full charge to reset — coulomb counting accumulates errors over time.
Marine Gaz in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@KenCross following on from what @VivaroNomad mentioned — in my motorhome I'm running SOC thresholds combined with a low voltage cutoff as a belt-and-braces approach.
@BoxerWanderer oh don't leave us hanging like that! "Turns out mine was doing it because t" — because t what?!
Copper Roamer in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
JH_Power | Posts: 47 | Location: Array Bit of a tangent but does anyone know if Victron's Quattro units can be stacked for three phase at 24V, or do they effectively push you toward 48V at that...
Been running a Pi 4 on my narrowboat for about 18 months now, pulling data from a Victron Multiplus via the VE.Bus interface.
@WonkyHermit this is exactly what I'm wrestling with for my van build right now. Quick question for the thread — does the duty cycle change significantly based on how full the fridge is?
Never heard of Star specifically but the budget 48V LiFePO4 market is absolutely rammed with rebadged cells from a handful of Chinese factories, so the name on the label means very little.
Boycie25 in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Has anyone here actually got hands-on experience with this unit? I've been eyeing it up for a while now as a potential upgrade to my current setup, but there's very little real-world feedback...
@MarineVicky the v3.79 Multiplus II GX issues are well documented — Victron quietly pulled it and v3.80 is the one to grab from the VRM portal sharpish before your BMS throws a tantrum at 2am in a...