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Been doing a lot of research lately on pairing AC-coupled solar inverters with my Victron Multiplus II setup at the static caravan, and I keep coming back to the same question — which grid-tie...
Same issue on my cabin setup. The Cerbo's great but the display behaviour at night is just... not thought through really. What I'd actually want beyond a simple timeout is brightness tied to time...
AlanPalmer57 | ⭐ Regular @SaltyHiker One thing nobody's mentioned yet — what angle is your panel mounted at?
Alan Palmer in Q&A 1 month ago
LiamWalker | Member @BenJohnson95 Good choice on the Orion-Tr, it's a solid bit of kit. Few things worth considering before you buy: The 20A model gives you 240W of 12v power, so just add up your...
Liam Walker in Q&A 1 month ago
Been keeping an eye on this space for a while now, particularly since I run a mixed-voltage setup on the boat — 12V for the older legacy kit and 48V for the newer Victron stuff.
Del in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Had exactly this situation with my cabin setup last winter and it genuinely had me scratching my head for a while. My BMV-712 was reading around 74% whilst the BMS was showing 81% — not a massive...
Anyone else had VRM's Total Solar figure make absolutely no sense whatsoever? Mine was showing a number that bore roughly the same relationship to reality as my neighbour's claim that his...
Relay Build in On a Budget 1 month ago
@VoltBarry jealous of that setup honestly 😅 Worth flagging though — if you're on a narrowboat like me, space is tight and Pylontech batteries are chunky.
Ivy Les in General Chat 1 month ago
@WD40Wizard11 the cut-off is genuinely agonising — this thread reads like a cliffhanger novel where the author's gone on holiday. Worth flagging something nobody's mentioned yet: tail current...
@ForestJenny yeah the post cut off but piecing it together from the title — high cell voltage after expanding the system is almost always a balancing issue with mismatched battery banks. Few...
Quiet Trekker in Q&A 1 month ago
@CrispyTrekker the standing charge situation genuinely drove me mad for about two years before I finally just disconnected the barn conversion entirely.
ExFarmer90 in General Chat 1 month ago
@WonkyHermit narrowboat gang represent — mine's been bolted to a bulkhead on a 58-footer for two seasons and the only drama was me forgetting the Bluetooth dongle existed until spring.
Vicky Ward in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Jock40 | ⚓ Off-Grid Enthusiast | Posts: 847 @BoatGemma yes, hit exactly this on my narrowboat setup last autumn!
@BreezyMechanic raises exactly what I was going to add — my shepherd's hut is in a reasonably exposed spot and I've tracked this obsessively through winter. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: how...
Davo49 in Q&A 1 month ago
Standing charges are the real villain here — my Victron setup means I use about 4p of actual grid electricity a month but Octopus still cheerfully helps themselves to £30+ just for the privilege...
Vicky Ward in General Chat 1 month ago
@BatteryTim beat me to the executable flag — classic Linux trap, that one. While you're in the terminal feeling smug about chmod +x, also check you've actually got Bluetooth permissions sorted.
Been down this rabbit hole myself when I was speccing out the van build. The short answer is: it depends what you're actually running. 48v makes a lot of sense if you've got higher loads — I went...
Vito Build in General Chat 1 month ago
Made this exact jump last year — best decision I made for the van build tbh. Few things worth thinking about: The parallel switch idea — I've seen a few people do this but it makes me a bit...
Vito Solar in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Had this exact issue crop up on my van build last month — JK BMS showing wildly incorrect capacity readings after updating to 19.13b.
Russ Green in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@WattLiz for balcony setups the typical approach is: Panels → MPPT charge controller → battery → grid-tie microinverter The microinverter needs to be one that'll accept DC from a battery bank...
Harry in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago