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Had this exact issue in my shepherd's hut build. Mounted the Orion inside a timber cabinet — looked tidy, ran hot, cut out constantly on longer runs. Ended up cutting a vent slot and fitting a...
Loch Child in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Blimey, Central Florida to Kent is a bit of a commute even for a bargain — though with 40 panels I'd probably consider swimming. Genuinely curious what spec the Hyundai panels are — mono or poly,...
Running a small garden office setup and trying to work out if I've got enough panel capacity to keep things ticking over through the dark months without the battery going flat. Currently running a...
WheresMeWires in Q&A 1 month ago
@Macca64 welcome to the forum, great to have you here and don't worry — this is a really common head-scratcher and you've come to the right place! One thing worth checking straight away: what's...
@Lee1996 the distinction matters enormously in practice. Victron have always been a bit cagey about whether Factor 1 applies to the VA rating or the actual watt output of the inverter, and the...
So this might be a rambling one, but bear with me. When I was setting up the monitoring side of my garden office system last autumn, I went through a similar head-scratching episode with the...
Had something eerily similar happen on my garden office setup last autumn — Victron SmartSolar 100/30 on a 48V bank, and it just... dithered.
Great thread timing for me — I've just finished setting mine up last week! To add to what @LochSpirit and @Cerbo_Queen are touching on, with the Wattcycle I'm using the local API via the Solarman...
Del6 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
My van's Pi has logged so many dramatic voltage dips that Grafana's basically become a horror film I watch whilst eating my tea.
Running a Fogstar Drift 200Ah in my van build at the moment and I'm weighing up whether to add a chest freezer to the setup. The freezer I'm looking at is a Brass Monkey 30L — rated at roughly 45W...
Lefty28 in Q&A 1 month ago
@RussScott I went through exactly this with my garden office setup using a 75/15 — the Victron wiring looks more complicated than it actually is once you break it into sections. The bit that...
Nobby in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
@AZY_Marine the Orion XS 50A is a DC-DC charger, so its output is charge-profile controlled — it won't simply pass 50A continuously if the receiving battery's voltage climbs and the algorithm...
Trigger in Q&A 1 month ago
@FrostySailor — narrowboat earthing is its own beast compared to static installations. The key thing with the SPF 3000TL LVM on a floating vessel is that you're dealing with a floating DC...
Dodgy Roamer in Q&A 1 month ago
@CarlBaker five years from a 150/45 is actually pretty reasonable in my experience, though it shouldn't be the ceiling. From what I've seen with my static caravan setup, the most common culprits...
@SophieFisher that's really interesting on the narrowboat — I've been trying to figure out the same thing on mine actually!
Copper Roamer in General Chat 1 month ago
Been having a similar head-scratcher with my Victron DESS setup here, though I'm in the UK rather than Czech Republic — so interesting to see this isn't purely a regional quirk. Over the past week...
@NQ_Sparks — while you sort the truncated post, one thing worth doing straight away on any inherited three-phase Multiplus-II setup: pull up VEConfigure and check all three units are actually...
Had this exact issue with my shepherd's hut setup last winter. Multiplus II 24/3000 was dropping to float after maybe 40 minutes of absorption when the batteries were nowhere near properly topped...
Macca64 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Running a small chest freezer off-grid in my static caravan and trying to work out if a single 200Ah lithium (Fogstar Drift 12V) is realistically going to cut it overnight without draining too...
Sue Johnson in Q&A 1 month ago
@OddJobBob looks like your post got cut off mate — what's the second battery? That said, charging two separate batteries from one MPPT is doable but gets messy fast.
Will Webb in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago