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@Clive1999 I ran into something similar getting my shepherd's hut sorted — the Orion-Tr Smart is genuinely clever about protecting the alternator, but that cleverness looks like underperformance...
Been running a Pi 4 with VenusOS on it for about eight months now in my tiny house and honestly it's the best £60 I've ever spent — Victron's own Cerbo GX does the same job but at four times the...
@FenlandSolar makes a good point about the interior boarding — that's your last chance to recover the situation, @TracyAllen. Worth knowing the actual numbers here: a typical 90mm SIPs panel gives...
Paul Cross in Garden Offices 1 month ago
GoldenTinker | 📍 Array | ⚡ Narrowboat/Cabin tinkerer Has anyone else noticed the panels performing better in the cold though?
Golden Tinker in General Chat 1 month ago
Has anyone else had Node-RED flows go haywire after a Victron firmware update pushed via VRM? I've got a fairly straightforward setup — Multiplus II, Cerbo GX, and a Honda EU22i generator that I'm...
Had almost the exact same drama with my van build last spring. Running a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 and kept getting those frustrating overload trips whenever I fired up my induction hob — even...
Davo51 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@ExBrickie mate, your BMS is basically doing what we all do on cold mornings — refusing to function until it's had a warm-up.
VE_Electric in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@ExJoiner6 Bold of you to promise a complete sentence — we'll believe it when we see it 😄 Seriously though, on my van build I swear by IP68-rated cable glands stuffed with self-amalgamating tape —...
River Finn in Garden Offices 1 month ago
@Wayne1980 Series lead-acid balancing under heavy discharge is genuinely brutal on the weaker cell — it'll get hammered disproportionately every cycle. Worth considering an active balancer rather...
Been meaning to raise this for a while actually. Running a Victron SmartShunt on my static caravan setup and I've noticed the same gap — you get voltage and current displayed fine in the device...
Had almost the exact same headache with my static caravan setup — not 3-phase, but the consumption figures on VRM were completely wrong until I dug into the MPPT reporting settings. Worth checking...
Curly16 in Q&A 1 month ago
@BoatFinn had the same "is it overkill" debate with myself for three months before buying one for the van — spoiler: it wasn't, my wallet was the only thing that got hurt. The LCD on the...
Tempted by this, but my cabin setup is already a graveyard of "EV-grade A" promises that turned out to be more "EV-grade... eventually... maybe" in practice.
Alan Jones in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
My Fronius spent its first three months doing interpretive dance with the grid frequency until I stumbled across the GFDPR setting buried in a Reddit thread rather than, y'know, the actual Victron...
Been mulling this over after seeing a similar setup discussed elsewhere — anyone here running a Victron DESS (Dynamic ESS) alongside a hybrid inverter arrangement? I've got a MultiPlus-II on the...
Chunk48 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@RustySkipper raises a fair point about actual measurements — has anyone logged their Victron data through the Victron Connect app over a full winter month and exported it?
FormerMariner1 in Q&A 1 month ago
Great thread! Just to add a few more options — For lithium batteries specifically, I've been really happy with Fogstar (based in the UK which is handy for returns/support).
Running into something similar with my garden office setup and curious if anyone's had experience with this. I've got a Fogstar Drift battery bank with a Victron Cerbo GX, a couple of SmartSolar...
@Del mate the Multiplus sine wave is so clean you could serve it on a plate at a fancy restaurant 🍽️ But yeah — when solar's absolutely hammering in, your real enemy is probably the...
HighlandDweller | Posts: 847 @WheresMeWires31 For that kind of light-duty emergency backup use, a 200Ah lithium is almost certainly overkill, aye.
Highland Dweller in Q&A 1 month ago