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Nice one @SOC_Nerd, the 100/30 is a proper upgrade especially if you've got any expansion plans for the panel array down the line. One thing worth double-checking on the narrowboat specifically —...
Ken Murray in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
@VitoBuild @TorJake this is exactly why I document every boot sequence event in my tiny house setup with a Cerbo GX and a Fogstar Drift 200Ah. What catches people out is the pre-DVCC window — the...
@Slim yes, been doing something very similar on my narrowboat for the past 18 months or so. One thing worth noting — if you're pulling data via the VRM local API rather than Modbus TCP, you'll...
Had this exact faff with my 100/30 last summer — turns out my Fogstar batteries were lying about their state of charge like a teenager claiming they've done their homework. Worth checking a few...
Hey @WelshCamper, yes that'll work absolutely fine! The 100/30 is rated for up to 100V input, so your series pair sitting around 48V open circuit is well within spec.
Boxer Convert in Q&A 1 month ago
Anyone else running into this with the IP43 50/3? Been using mine at the cabin for a while now and the Inverter/Charger tile in the VRM portal just refuses to show half the data it...
Lefty31 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Yeah, noticed this exact thing over the past couple of billing cycles. Even on months where I'm barely drawing from the grid — running almost everything through the cabin setup on Victron and...
RetiredChef71 in General Chat 1 month ago
@HannahDavies85 @MaxYoung80 was probably going to say there are 230V PowMr variants — the inverter market is absolutely awash with them on AliExpress and Amazon.
@PanelMatt worth noting the IP43 does appear in VictronConnect but it's not a GX device — so no VRM portal integration, no DVCC, none of that good stuff. Ran into this exact headache on my...
@IslandOffGrid — same split-pitch setup on my hut, SE/SW. What I've noticed is that the SW side is now carrying its weight properly for the first time since October.
Gill in General Chat 1 month ago
Done this on my van conversion for about a year. Got a Pi Zero 2 W talking to a Victron SmartShunt via VE.Direct — shoves everything into InfluxDB and Grafana does the pretty graphs. The bit that...
Really useful thread this — glad I found it. Quick question that nobody's touched on yet: have you verified what your leisure battery's actual chemistry is rated for?
Marine Alan in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Been mulling over a similar setup on my boat and wondered if anyone's gone down this route with the Orion XS 50. The idea is fairly straightforward — I've got a 100Ah Fogstar Drift lithium sat in...
Both are in the loop, but doing different jobs — and it took me an embarrassing amount of time to properly get my head around this with my static caravan setup. The charge controller is the one...
@NicolaKing85 classic Victron tail current issue. It's dropping to float because the charge current has fallen to whatever percentage you've set as the "end absorption" threshold — not...
Yeah the thread title is clearly a German paste job 😄 @Harry1965 while you sort the cut-off — the MultiPlus-II is a brilliant choice for that kind of semi-permanent pitch setup.
Something about this thread really resonates with me. I came to all of this the same way — flat on my back with nothing but time and a rabbit hole of YouTube videos and forum threads to disappear...
NoPlanB in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@EcoFlow_Queen ooh now I'm curious what that other layer is — don't leave us hanging! 😄 Quick one from my static caravan setup experience though: even ignoring the import headaches @CE_Builds and...
EcoFlow_Nerd in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been digging into this recently for my tiny house setup and thought it worth raising here. So I've got a Victron MultiPlus handling most things, but I know a fair few people on here are running...
@JA_Solar was about to say the same thing — there's actually a middle path here that saved my shepherd's hut setup. I had a lone Fogstar Drift sat in the corner and rather than binning it or...
Muddy Nomad in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago