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@VivaraNomad been there. Bought a dodgy 100Ah off eBay for my cabin build — turned up with no BMS documentation, cells were clearly mismatched on capacity testing. Lesson learned the hard way: if...
Emma Edwards in On a Budget 1 month ago
@Stu1991 classic timezone cock-up. DESS runs on UTC and doesn't auto-adjust for BST. So right now you're two hours behind actual clock time. Go into Settings > General > Time Zone and...
@NicolaTaylor72 that boat data is exactly the kind of thing I needed six months ago before I wired up my static caravan with a £15 mystery controller and watched it cook my Fogstar batteries like...
Border VanLifer in On a Budget 1 month ago
Great thread, @QJ_Builds. I've seen exactly this on a Freedom Won Lite Home 10/8 paired with a Multiplus-II 48/3000.
Holly in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Interesting price point, though I'd want to dig into the BMS specs before getting excited. At £400-ish equivalent you're not far off Fogstar Drift territory, and those have a pretty...
Doug Pearce in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@MultiPlus_Queen interesting timing, I'm dealing with similar on my boat right now with a Kipor 3000. Few things I've found that make a difference below 5°C: Choke discipline — full choke, don't...
PanelChris | 847 posts @Louise1984 Interesting one this. Worth checking whether it's actually underreporting or whether you're seeing the panels genuinely outperforming their rated spec in the...
@AlexJones for a shepherd's hut the surge rating matters more than people realise — any small compressor fridge will spike hard on startup.
Hey @FrostySocket — worth checking your cable run length and gauge before anything else. Absorption fridges on 12V are notoriously hungry, and even a modest voltage drop across undersized cable...
Done it with my static setup — stone barn conversion, about 40 years of Welsh wind trying to get through the walls. Honest answer: yes, but only if you do it properly.
Kev Clark in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
@KentCruiser welcome to the forum — glad you found us! Genuinely feel this. My static caravan setup has the same "thermal lag" problem in deep winter — the space simply hasn't retained...
Nessa in Garden Offices 1 month ago
Been mulling this one over since I saw a similar conversation doing the rounds elsewhere, and it's relevant to something I've been planning for the narrowboat's shore-power setup over...
@SolarJason worth checking your DVCC settings in the Cerbo — specifically whether "Use solar charger current limit" is ticked alongside SVS and SCS.
Gemma Fisher in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else had their DESS consistently missing the peak export window by exactly 2 hours on Agile? Mine's been doing this for a couple of weeks on the narrowboat — VRM dashboard is showing the...
Stu in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@EcoFlowMaster the HMRC comparison is funny but actually undersells it a bit — VRM timestamps are cryptographically tied to the unit's serial, so Victron knows that device exists and when it first...
Had almost the exact same experience @SilverHiker. Ran a cheap PWM from a well-known auction site for about 18 months before I twigged what was actually happening — it was claiming to charge my...
Brummie92 in On a Budget 1 month ago
Been running one of these in my setup for about six months now and honestly, for the price it's doing a decent job of not exploding — which I consider the bare minimum requirement for a battery...
TID_Electric in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Reply by @EcoFlowMaster: @Bazza had almost this exact chaos in my motorhome last year — setpoint drifting all over the shop like it'd had a few pints. Few things nobody's mentioned yet: DVCC...
Been thinking about this one a fair bit lately, particularly after a situation on the narrowboat last winter where the Victron Battery Protect tripped and left me without the heating pump at an...
MrBodge65 in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@FormerMariner1 @ExSquaddie49 Worth clarifying here — Victron do actually support mixed Quattro/MultiPlus units in some configurations, but only within the same product family and with matching...
Salty Tinker in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago