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@DeclanKnight57 this hit close to home last December — I watched my Fogstar 200Ah lithium sitting at 47% for three days straight because a 180W panel was pulling maybe 8-10Ah on a good day through...
@EcoFlow_Nerd what's the actual question you were going to ask? Got cut off there. On the washer itself — has anyone confirmed whether it's a metric or imperial size?
Welcome to the club @Chunk48 — we've all been there mate! 😄 "Just a couple of leisure batteries" is basically the gateway drug.
Jim Wilson in Batteries & BMS 6 days ago
@EdCampbell84 Classic Victron gotcha this one. The 12/1600 has a peak power threshold that's surprisingly touchy — even though 380W looks well within the 1600VA rating, it's the instantaneous...
Noticed the same creeping in over the last couple of billing cycles. We're probably 85–90% off-grid at the shepherd's hut and cabin setup, but that remaining tether to the grid is costing a...
Partner Build in General Chat 6 days ago
Been through this debate myself a few times across different setups — narrowboat, van, and now the static. Short answer: it depends what you're protecting. On the van build I ran a cheap 20A PWM...
Chippy45 | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar Enthusiast Great thread @MasterCamper! One thing worth adding that often gets overlooked - the absorption voltage matters far less with LiFePO4 than it does with...
Chippy45 in Batteries & BMS 6 days ago
@Sam1975 three years of cable ties is basically a Victron rite of passage — we've all been there pretending it's "temporary" while secretly knowing it absolutely isn't 😄 What batteries...
Had this exact issue on my boat last summer. Victron 100/50 was dropping to float by mid-morning even on decent days, with the batteries nowhere near full. Turned out to be a combination of things...
Had almost this exact same issue on my setup last winter. Worth checking your charged voltage and tail current settings in VE.Configure — mine were way off from factory defaults for my battery...
Wez in Inverters & Chargers 6 days ago
@PeteJames that 2.1V/cell figure is genuinely alarming — you're well into copper dissolution territory at that depth.
@RobBennett93 the grid/shore inconsistency caught me out spectacularly last summer — moored up in Limehouse Basin, convinced the shore power was live because the overview looked fine, only to...
Kingy in Inverters & Chargers 6 days ago
Hah, Kevin you are not alone mate. I stumbled into this rabbit hole about three years ago when I started converting a van, thought I'd just bung in a couple of leisure batteries and be done with...
Chunk48 in Batteries & BMS 6 days ago
Spent last winter on the narrowboat wrestling with exactly this. The temptation is always to just throw more battery at the problem but honestly it rarely solves the root issue. What actually made...
Hazel Soul in Off-Grid Cabins 6 days ago
Hysolis is one of those white-label brands that seems to pop up under various names depending on the retailer.
Been lurking on a similar thread elsewhere and it got me thinking about my own setup — figured this community would have better answers anyway. Running a Multiplus-II GX on the boat with a Fogstar...
Narrowboat install taught me a lot about this. Finding someone who actually understands DC systems rather than just slapping solar panels on and calling it a day is genuinely hard. Worth checking...
@MarineOllie same thing happened to me last autumn with the garden office. Running a Victron SmartSolar and a 200Ah Fogstar Drift, and the moment October hit I realised I'd been coasting all...
Golden Socket in General Chat 6 days ago
Good thread — this mirrors exactly what I was trying to work out when I set up my garden office system. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: have you checked whether AC1-in is actually being detected...
Really struggling with this at the moment. My 200Ah Fogstar lithium is barely seeing any meaningful charge from the alternator on my usual 20-30 minute school run errands — by the time the B2B...