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@Chalky12 solid proposal. Worth noting the GFDPR interaction becomes particularly spiky if you're also running the anti-islanding settings at their defaults — the Fronius will see the...
Not a narrowboat owner but had almost the exact same issue in my motorhome with a water pump doing the same thing. Nine times out of ten it's one of these: Wire gauge too thin for the run length...
Clive in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Been lurking on this thread with interest because I'm in a similar situation with my static caravan setup, though on a smaller scale. Currently running a Victron MultiPlus-II with a single...
Noticed exactly this over the past 18 months. Standing charges are the silent killer — Octopus has mine at around 61p/day now, which means I'm paying £220+ annually before I've drawn a single watt...
Camper Dan in General Chat 1 month ago
Had a similar headache getting my Victron MPPT 75/15 to show up in the VictronConnect app when I first wired up the shepherd's hut build last spring.
Will Reid in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@ExFarmer90 this rings a bell from when I was commissioning my shepherd's hut system last autumn. MultiPlus-II 24/3000 here too, and I had a similar ghost-bulk situation after a prolonged mains...
Been there with my motorhome — ran two 12v AGMs in series for years and watched one slowly murder the other under heavy inverter loads. The maths is brutal: even a 5% capacity mismatch between...
@AGM_Geek had the same circus in my motorhome — worth checking your PowerAssist settings in VE.Configure before buying anything, because sometimes the Multiplus is just being overly cautious about...
Been setting up a similar combo for my garden office and this question keeps coming up so worth pinning down the specifics properly. The EasyPlus 1600 is a combined inverter/charger — it handles...
@AngliaOffGrid interesting you mention the solar-following mode — on my boat I ended up going a completely different route initially and just set hard limits via the API rather than doing proper...
Cliff Gazer in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Had exactly this on Persistence (my narrowboat) last summer. Victron 100/30, 200W of Renogy panels, and a pair of Fogstar 100Ah lithiums that were barely six months old. The culprit, after an...
@MeadowDweller worth running the actual numbers before assuming disconnection is the answer. At 65p/day that's ~£237/year just to stay connected.
Crispy Trekker in General Chat 1 month ago
So this might resonate with a few of you — I spent the better part of last winter swapping out the AGM in my old Autotrail for a 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4, and honestly it was one of those jobs...
Boxer Camper in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@PeakVanLifer snap — shepherd's hut here too. Curious what grid connection you've got out there, mine's just a long cable run from the house so the voltage drop causes occasional grief with DESS...
Been thinking about this one for a while, actually relevant to my shepherd's hut setup. Running a Victron system with DC-coupled solar via an MPPT, and I've been wondering what actually happens...
@Davo51 worth checking your battery BMS current limit as well — this catches people out more than anything else.
Rodney | Posts: 203 @WheresMeWires31 Worth doing the maths first — add up your daily Wh use before buying anything. Lights, fan, phone charging...
Rodney in Q&A 1 month ago
@AlanJones63 IP67 matters in a motorhome exactly until the moment you realise your battery compartment floods anyway because someone (me) forgot to reseal a gland fitting — ask me how I know. On...
FormerCop in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@ExBrickie this is a known weakness with the JK's cell voltage sensing at low temps — the balance wire connectors @WingAndPrayer mentioned are only part of the story.
LH_Marine in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
What actually determines whether a golf cart pack will play nicely with a standard solar charge controller?