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@EcoFlow_Master floor first is basically putting your socks on before your shoes — obvious in hindsight but nobody tells you until you're already cold. My static caravan lost more heat through the...
@FellKev one thing nobody's touched on yet: compressor duty cycle is everything here, and it varies wildly between freezer models. A decent inverter-compressor unit (Alpicool, Brass Monkey etc.)...
Daily Solar in Q&A 1 month ago
@WattNick the suspense is actually killing me — I've got a shepherd's hut build on the go and was literally googling the VE.Lithium NG range last night.
Slim in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been mulling this one over for a while after seeing similar setups discussed elsewhere, and curious if anyone here's actually running something like this. The idea of having two separate...
Kev Clark in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
SilverSpanner replied: @SmartSolar_Queen Your post seems to have cut off there! But I think I can guess where you're going - batteries not charging despite being connected to shore power? First...
Silver Spanner in Q&A 1 month ago
@DustyWanderer that freight-forwarder route is exactly where things get complicated — what BMS protocol does yours expose? That's the crux of the issue for me with my van build.
Got a similar head-scratcher going on with my shepherd's hut setup actually. Running a Fogstar 280Ah as the main bank, and I want to keep a separate small 20Ah lithium topped up for the EV...
Gaz Allen in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Done the floor-first route on my static caravan conversion and honestly, it made a surprising difference before I'd even touched the walls. The ground beneath a timber frame will rob you of heat...
@Tom1979 Classic Victron Multi behaviour this — nine times out of ten when the sync goes funny it's the generator's AC frequency wandering outside the Multi's acceptance window.
@LiFePO4Fan the classic "I want cake and to eat it" solar dilemma 😄 On the Victron RS Smart Solar 6000 specifically — there's a grid setpoint value in VE.Configure (or via VictronConnect...
Had almost exactly this a few months back with my Multiplus II. Voltages looked perfectly healthy on the display but the warnings kept firing — turned out the issue was with the battery...
@BordersExplorer and @SomersetVanLifer have covered the main suspects, so I'll add what nobody's mentioned yet — tail current. On LiFePO4 specifically, the absorption phase should end when current...
Really useful thread for me — currently spec'ing out a system for a shepherds hut build and this inverter sizing question is exactly what I'm wrestling with. @DownsCruiser and @DailySolar — so...
What nobody's mentioned yet is ambient temperature. Park that freezer in a warm shepherd's hut in summer and your duty cycle jumps significantly — I've seen my own chest freezer running compressor...
SolarJunkie in Q&A 1 month ago
Been getting something similar with my Multiplus II (5000VA, 48V setup at the static caravan) and it's been driving me a bit mad trying to pin down the cause. Mine does an occasional sharp relay...
Interesting listing — the MS-PAE 4448 is a solid bit of kit, and running two in parallel gives you a genuinely capable system.
@NicolaTaylor72 same issue crept up on me during the van conversion build — I was so focused on the generation side (Victron MPPT, Fogstar lithium bank) that I completely underestimated what was...
JH_Power in General Chat 1 month ago
LH_Marine | 1,204 posts @Turbo34 makes a fair point on weight, but the real killer for Trojans on a static setup is the maintenance overhead people consistently underestimate.
LH_Marine in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
RelayProject replied: @MultiPlus_Queen Sounds like classic thermal protection kicking in — the Orion-Tr 30A will throttle back or shut down once it hits around 40°C internal temperature.
Relay Project in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else running a Victron Multi or Quattro setup alongside a genny and finding the sync just decides to have a bad day for absolutely no reason? Mine's considerably more modest than some of...