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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...
Went through exactly this on my 58ft trad last spring. Had the original 65A Lucas dinosaur on there since the boat was built in 2003 — swapped it for a 120A Iskra and paired it with a Victron...
Renogy_Pro in Marine & Boat 4 days ago
Had this exact issue on my static caravan setup last summer and it drove me absolutely mad trying to track it down. Mine turned out to be the VE.Direct cable rather than the MPPT itself.
Been keeping an eye on EG4 gear for a while now — they seem popular Stateside but I rarely see them come up in UK conversations.
Panel Nige in Batteries & BMS 4 days ago
@SandyViking nailed the "disposable circuit" logic — on my narrowboat I ran a £12 no-name PWM for the bilge pump float switch circuit for three years without drama, but the moment I was...
RetiredChef in On a Budget 4 days ago
@AlexPalmer60 bold of you to wade into motorhome territory from a garden office 😄 — @OffGridHamish already clocked that one Closest I get to a moving vehicle is my shepherd's hut, and even that...
@KellyRobinson @ThingamyBob — yes exactly, and worth checking which VE.Configure version was used to push the assistant originally.
JA_Solar in Batteries & BMS 4 days ago
Not a unit I've got direct hands-on with — my setup is Victron-based, built around keeping the narrowboat and the house backed up through grid outages — but the logic is universal across most...
Worth adding from narrowboat experience — ambient temperature makes a massive difference to your real-world consumption.
Berlingo Life in Q&A 4 days ago
Looks like it cut off for me too — would love to see the full post @VivaroNomad, especially the voltage settings you landed on. Running a similar Fogstar Drift bank in my van (12v mind, not 24v)...
Worth checking the Victron Community forum before touching v560 — there's a specific thread about ESS assistant conflicts post-update that's been causing grief for a few installs. My garden office...
Good points from @BordersExplorer on the Voc concern — that's caught a few people out with cold morning voltages on longer strings.
@GrumpySkipper @BlownFuse both on the money there. Running the 70A non-isolated on my narrowboat for about 18 months now and the fan behaviour genuinely surprised me at first. What I've noticed is...
Pete James in DC-DC Chargers 4 days ago
Three summers on a narrowboat will teach you what no amount of insulation spec sheets ever will — thermal mass is your enemy in summer, full stop. What saved my boat (and now my emergency backup...
Spud in Garden Offices 4 days ago
@Chalky12 agree the UK-specific gap is real. A few things that'd actually be useful to cover: G98/G99 compliance — nobody talks about this and it catches people out Realistic solar yield figures...
Marine Gaz in Batteries & BMS 4 days ago