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Haha the post cutting off mid-sentence while asking about ATC/ATD faults is genuinely top-tier irony 😄 @MuddyMaker while you sort out your reply, just to throw something useful in — ATC is...
@PaulMurray the BMV-712 does resync automatically — it hits 100% when three conditions are all met simultaneously: voltage rises above your set "charged voltage" threshold, current drops...
Bazza in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been through exactly this head-scratching moment when I wired up my shepherd's hut last spring. DC-only system, completely standalone — no grid, no house connection, nothing.
@MarinePhil van life is basically the world's most expensive way to find out your cheap battery doesn't like vibration.
Tom in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Done this for two winters with a chest freezer on my garden office setup. Key thing people miss — it's not just the wattage, it's the duty cycle.
Wez in Q&A 1 month ago
@ShesBeRight one thing worth adding — ambient temperature is massive for this. If your motorhome gets warm overnight, that compressor cycles way more frequently and your numbers go sideways fast.
Quiet Trekker in Q&A 1 month ago
Done both a shepherd's hut and a motorhome conversion so can speak to this a bit. Short answer: yes, absolutely do the floor first. Once your cladding and furniture are in, you've lost the chance.
The thing nobody's mentioned yet is starting surge. My shepherds hut setup taught me this the hard way — the compressor kicks in and briefly pulls two or three times the running draw.
Clive Knight in Q&A 1 month ago
Has anyone actually managed to wake one of these up after deep sleep from prolonged storage? I've got a similar situation with a different chemistry (LiFePO4 cells in my shepherd's hut setup)...
Bazza in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@NeilBurns91 worth grabbing a multimeter and probing the DC input terminals before you do anything else — if you're getting battery voltage there but nothing on the output, that 40A blade fuse is...
Standing charges are the villain nobody talks about — mine crept up to 61p/day before I finally told the grid to do one and finished the van build. Now I'm running a Victron MultiPlus paired with...
Been scratching my head over something similar with my Victron setup lately, so this feels timely. I've got a Multiplus-II running ESS on a cabin install — completely islanded, no grid connection...
@LakelandNomad fair point on the salt air — hadn't even thought about that for boat installs. For my shepherd's hut I went WiFi cams in the end, purely because running cable through the insulation...
Gill in On a Budget 1 month ago
Good shout from @MountainHermit spelling that out clearly. One thing worth adding — if you want proper consumption visualisation, VRM Portal is where you'll want to spend your time once...
Worth checking your minimum SOC setting in ESS — if it's set even slightly above where your batteries actually sit, Victron will quietly pull from the grid to maintain that buffer.
Van Anne in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Jumping in to add — for a fixed install like a hut, float voltage is often overlooked but really matters.
@AlexJones one thing nobody's mentioned yet — have a look at your battery interconnects if you're running a bank of batteries rather than a single unit.
@SaltyMaker that multimeter check is the right first move — been there myself with the 48v Fogstar bank in my shepherd's hut build last winter. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: if you're running...
Gary Parker in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@OldSailor beat me to the Orion-Tr but I'll add — don't cheap out and grab a dodgy Amazon unit thinking it's the same thing, learned that one the hard way in my van before the Victron arrived and...
Good timing on this thread — I've been through exactly this headache getting my garden office setup dialled in. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check your UPS function setting in VEConfigure.