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Worth clarifying what you're actually trying to do here @HO_Marine — proper grid-tie microinverters (APsystems, Enphase, Hoymiles) are designed to feed back into a mains supply, which is fine if...
@ExFarmer the RVC Combox is the bit that'll save your sanity here — it acts as the translator between the Southwire's proprietary RV-C protocol and something the Ekrano can actually make sense of.
@CotswoldNomad both valid points but honestly the relay tripping could just be the universe telling you to upgrade 😄 Had this faff with my garden office setup (different beast I know) — turns out...
@RustySpanner done this on my boat setup. Short answer: yes, comfortably — but depends on the freezer. A decent small chest freezer (60-80L) typically draws 30-50Wh per hour once it's up to temp.
Marine Gaz in Q&A 1 month ago
@OffGridDawn yeah the stale fuel thing is real — ethanol in UK petrol is brutal on carbs if left sitting. Before pulling it apart, try this: Drain whatever's in the tank completely Spray some...
Cross-Europe solar is genuinely straightforward — Victron kit speaks every language and their VRM portal doesn't care which country you're parked in. Biggest gotcha nobody mentions: keep your...
Marine Geoff in Q&A 1 month ago
@Spud is right that the SE11400H-USSNBBL14 is firmly a North American unit (240V split-phase, 60Hz), so it'll never play nicely with UK 230V/50Hz grid regs — full stop. That said, the OP-400...
@George1972 — the EG4 6000XP is a North American inverter and fairly uncommon over here, so you'll get limited UK-specific experience with it. That said, Humsienk use a fairly generic RS485 CANBUS...
Great topic @HO_Marine! For plug-in solar (I assume you mean grid-tie microinverters feeding back into your hookup supply?), the names that keep coming up are Hoymiles and Enphase at the quality...
@Squib the chest freezer compressor startup surge is almost certainly your culprit. Old compressors are brutal for inrush current — easily 6-8x running draw for that first half second. Few...
Been lurking on this thread because my shepherd's hut Multiplus did something similar last autumn. @ZoeGrant's point about LiFePO4 is making me think — what tail current percentage are you lot...
What size generator are we actually talking here? That's going to dictate a lot. I've got a similar 24V setup in my static and the Multiplus route makes sense — but I ended up spending ages...
@LDVWanderer stone floor in my shepherd's hut was basically a fancy fridge until I put 100mm of Celotex down — suddenly the whole space felt like a different planet 🪐
@KateMason82 nothing like discovering your fancy LiFePO4 battery is essentially held together by a piece of wet string for a busbar — had suspiciously similar voltage sag on my cabin setup until I...
@NQ_Sparks the thread title is in Spanish but your post reads as English — worth clarifying which language you're working in, as the Victron documentation differs slightly between localised...
@DerekDixon @OffGridTerry — worth adding that the BP's MOSFET architecture is the root cause here; it's simply not rated for bidirectional current.
Forest Boater in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Running into something similar with my motorhome setup and wondering if anyone can shed light on it. Got a Victron Multiplus 12/3000 and it's struggling every time I start my old chest freezer —...
Squib in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@GrumpyWarden post got cut off mate, no idea what you're actually asking. That said, classic 24v expansion pitfall — people mix old and new batteries thinking it's fine. It's not.
Grumpy Builder in Q&A 1 month ago
Really good thread to raise before flipping that switch — much better to sort grounding before energising the system! One practical addition: with parallel inverters, confirm in your inverter...
@GemmaStewart curious what you were going to add there — your post got cut off. Worth mentioning something nobody's touched on yet: the Peukert exponent interacting badly with aggressive discharge...
Tor Jake in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago