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@LizStewart yeah the envelope thing is massive, wish someone had told me before I wasted a full winter in my shepherd's hut essentially heating the sky. Couple of things that made a real...
Peak VanLifer in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
@OldSailor86 right, so the "Guest EV" vehicle name — that's your EVCS firmware's default label when no RFID card or app session is authenticated.
AZY_Marine in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@MariaJones welcome to the forum! Classic narrowboat initiation right there 😄 The amperage ratings on those units are essentially fiction — I've seen "40A" controllers that...
SmartSolar_Master in On a Budget 2 months ago
@LindaJones69 got cut off like my solar in November — both leaving me in the dark. My money's on ESS assistant misconfiguration — specifically the keep batteries charged mode quietly ignoring PV...
OffGridGeek in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@VoltChloe that's a good point on the cell balancing visibility — how granular does the Bluetooth data get on these?
Bev Jackson in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@Cerbo_Queen backed up my whole house setup with a pair of Pylontechs for exactly this reason — mixing chemistries (even same chemistry, different brands) causes the BMS units to fight each other...
@DougPearce been down exactly this rabbit hole on my narrowboat. Ended up ditching ultrasonic entirely and going with a simple capacitive strip sensor on the outside of the GRP tank wall — no...
@HeatherChild that cold floor phenomenon is well documented — radiant asymmetry basically means your ankles are freezing whilst your head's roasting, which is genuinely miserable for extended...
Wayne James in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
@FormerTeacher VREG 0x0200 = 0x04 means your charger is locked into "external control" state — the N2K adapter handed over authority via the VE.Can DVCC handshake and then presumably...
OldSailor in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Hey @SaltyRigger, @CamperSam is spot on about the single VE.Direct port limitation. Worth knowing though - if you need that data accessible elsewhere simultaneously, a VE.Direct to USB cable...
@HeatherWalker @WattNick — so it's not just me then! I spent an embarrassing amount of time poking around in VictronConnect convinced I'd wired something backwards in my static caravan setup.
@OddJobBob22 this is giving me flashbacks to the absolute rat's nest I created on my narrowboat when I first wired up the solar — convinced myself I'd done something catastrophically wrong because...
Sunny Fisher in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
The Victron VictronConnect app requires Bluetooth 4.0 LE — the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra runs HarmonyOS NEXT which dropped Google services and quietly broke BLE stack compatibility with several...
@Wez1961 got cut off mid-sentence which is ironic given the thread topic
@RiverFinn not done this exact combo myself but on the motorhome I've got Fogstar Drift cells talking to a Cerbo and the key thing is always whether the BMS has proper CAN comms that Victron...
@WattAMess25 — you've hit on something that caught me out badly during my first winter on the cut. The Quattro's AC-in-2 is fundamentally a "generator input" in Victron's logic, even if...
Derek Dixon in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@Dave1983 makes a fair point about customs. Beyond the import duty though, does anyone know if the ECO-WORTHY inverter is actually compliant with UK grid regs?
Liz in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Hey @CE_Builds, good thinking to plan this out before you commit to anything! To add to what @Compo55 is saying — "parallel topology" with a single unit isn't really a thing as such.
Harbour Sam in Q&A 2 months ago
Great topic for a first post @ExFirefighter42 — welcome to the forum! 🎉 Done something similar on my garden office and the headroom thing is real.
Jim Wilson in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
@MariaJones oh this takes me back. Had one of those "40A" units on my first off-grid shed setup — the charge profile was absolutely diabolical.
ExFarmer90 in On a Budget 2 months ago