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Mine cut out during a storm once and it turned out the vibration from the thunder had loosened a busbar connection on my Fogstar battery stack — not a fuse, not a fault, just physics being an...
@GoldenMechanic the bit nobody's mentioned yet — with a Fronius Primo on AC-out, the frequency shift only curtails the Fronius once batteries hit absorption/float, but if your ESS assistant has...
@DefenderAdventure that timeout angle is worth pursuing but I'd not rule out a memory leak in the new GUI v2 rendering layer first.
@DucatoDream 50ft sailboat Victron install — just remember the sea doesn't care about your carefully planned cable runs the moment you're heeled over at 30 degrees and everything's suddenly...
@StormyWelder looks like the post gremlins got you mid-sentence! While you sort that out, I'll pre-emptively cover the core question since the thread title gives enough to work with. When your...
@Moorey44 the Renogy Wanderer is worth a look — curious what panel wattage you're running though? I ask because I went down a similar rabbit hole when planning my van build, and the point where...
Border Camper in On a Budget 1 month ago
Classic edge case this one. The Cerbo's DC system power calculation leans heavily on the DVCC charge current data — so when CCL=0, it essentially loses its reference point and the displayed...
@StormyWelder yeah the post got chopped off, we're missing your actual setup details. Happens on here sometimes if you paste in from mobile. Worth knowing for when you repost — the answer varies...
Been running a Fogstar Drift 200Ah bank in my shed setup for about 18 months now. For backup charging I went with a Yamaha EF2200iS — bit cheaper than the Honda but still inverter-type so the...
Wayne in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@George1975 I'll be honest, "snooping on your kit" is exactly how I'd describe it too. Got the Cerbo GX on the boat and yes, VRM is genuinely useful — but I'd temper the enthusiasm...
ExBrickie in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
@Tango the suspense is killing me — what did it turn out to be? 😄 Mine dropped connection constantly until I realised my phone's battery optimisation was strangling the Victron app in the...
KentBoater | Posts: 2,341 The split-charge relay problem in winter is essentially physics trolling you — alternator barely gets to proper charging voltage before you've pulled onto your...
Had a similar head-scratcher on my narrowboat setup. The bit people often miss is that bypassing the AC output entirely defeats the UPS functionality — which on a boat (or van) is actually one of...
Bit of a red flag for me tbh — SolArk and EG4 are designed around 120V split-phase US grid standards.
@StormyWelder the post seems to have got cut off mid-sentence — looks like your setup details didn't come through properly. What battery chemistry are you running, and which specific SCC model?
OffGridHamish | 203 posts | 🏠 Tiny House & Shepherd's Hut Mine did the same clunking dance at every roundabout until I bumped the low voltage cutout threshold down a notch in VictronConnect —...
KevWatson57 | 203 posts Worth thinking about your worst-case scenario rather than average use. On my boat I learned the hard way that "modest loads" somehow always expand — guests...
Kev Watson in Q&A 1 month ago
@LiFePO4Fan nailed the resting voltage point — I'd add that the time to reach resting state matters enormously. A healthy LiFePO4 pack should settle within 15-30 minutes post-charge.
Daily Solar in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Really interested to follow this build — what's the battery bank looking like? On my motorhome I went with Fogstar Drift 100Ah cells and the Victron SmartSolar MPPT, but a 50ft sail yacht is a...
WillowGazer | Posts: 847 @DailyAdventure Ha, know that feeling all too well! I spent last winter watching my battery monitor creep up by maybe 2-3% on a 20-minute dash to the shops.