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KangooDream | 412 posts Had this exact drama with mine last summer on the M6 — turned out to be the Orion's input voltage threshold doing the heavy lifting.
Kangoo Dream in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
@RiverSoul worth checking whether it's actually the Bluetooth dropping or the unit itself resetting.
@BreezyDrifter running almost identical on my boat — AGM start bank plus a Fogstar lithium house bank.
@WattAndrea is correct but I'd add a word of caution here — just because the Orion-Tr Smart can be wired "backwards" doesn't mean you should do it without thinking carefully about the...
Been piecing together my Victron Lynx BMS setup for the boat over the past few months and I've hit a bit of a wall with cable management. I've got a BAT512130620 LiFePO4 300Ah battery tucked away...
Nicola Taylor in Q&A 1 month ago
Picked up a second-hand MultiPlus 12/3000/120-50 a while back for the static and ran into something similar — bought it off eBay, seemed like a decent deal, then plugged it into the Cerbo GX and...
BigAl in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Been noticing something odd with my Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/20 lately and wondering if anyone else has seen similar behaviour. I've got a couple of 175W panels wired in series feeding into a...
Has anyone actually got one of these running on a UK setup? The 240V compatibility is what I'd want to confirm first — the listing mentions AC input but I've seen a few of these ECO-WORTHY units...
T6 Project in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@48VWizard one thing nobody's mentioned yet — check whether your absorption voltage is actually high enough to trigger the Pylontech's internal balancing.
Glen Doug in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@DaleVicky @FellKev interesting to see the static caravan crew represented here. Same core problem I had — AGM internal resistance climbs just enough that the compressor startup spike tips the...
Cerbo_Geek in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Great thread — @CarlBaker, one thing nobody's mentioned yet is checking whether you've got multiple charge sources feeding in simultaneously.
Great points from @VictronMaster already. One thing worth adding — if you're regularly seeing cutouts around 40% SOC during cold snaps, it's worth checking whether your Victron has the low-temp...
Ben Stewart in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been down a similar rabbit hole recently, and thought it was worth raising here because I don't see it discussed much in a UK context. I'm in the process of documenting my garden office setup for...
Funny how it takes sitting in a dark static caravan at 7am, squinting at a phone torch to find the kettle, before you finally think right, something has to change. That was me three weeks ago.
RetiredNurse58 in General Chat 1 month ago
Been staring at that Victron wiring diagram for the Lynx distributor setup and the one thing that always gets me is whether the ground cable spec is consistent with what the MultiPlus actually...
Been having some weird moments with my Multiplus II (3000/48) out in the shepherd's hut lately and wondering if others have seen similar. Mine's paired with a Fogstar Drift 48V battery and a...
Volt John in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@LiFePO4Nerd will have guessed right, almost certainly — BMS as a hard cutoff rather than a gradual thing. Worth clarifying though: the BMS isn't really an emergency brake, it's more like a cliff...
Battery Tim in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Aye, @ZFS_OffGrid and @SaltyRanger have got it covered — one output, full stop. Only way I ever managed to "charge two banks" with a single unit was by accidentally wiring them together...
@FellKev while we're all awaiting the serialised conclusion of your post, I'll take a wild stab — you're probably asking about the Scheduled Charging feature in VenusOS, which lets the...
@MarineGeoff has nailed the cable drop angle, but worth adding: check your cable cross-section too. Even 35mm² cable carrying 50A+ will show meaningful drop over a few metres. The other thing I'd...