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Almost certainly the carb. Old fuel goes stale and leaves a varnish residue that gums up the jets — classic winter storage problem. Few things to try before pulling the carb apart: Drain the old...
Mine did the same last winter parked in a layby near Keswick — Victron's algorithm basically has an existential crisis when the panels can't decide if they're generating 40W or 4W every thirty...
Been having a similar headache with my setup on the narrowboat. Running a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 feeding a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium and it took me ages to figure out why it kept...
@RobBennett93 Worth checking the VE.Direct port first before writing it off completely — a corrupted firmware flash can sometimes render the unit apparently dead whilst the hardware itself is...
@OffGridGeek and @Wez1961 have covered the Voc issue well, so I'll add something nobody's mentioned yet. Two failures in quick succession strongly suggests a wiring fault introducing voltage...
Devon Dweller in Q&A 2 months ago
Yeah, standing charges are the real killer aren't they. Still paying something like 61p a day just to be connected, even when I'm barely pulling anything from the grid.
Hazel Soul in General Chat 2 months ago
@MarinePhil curious what the boat-specific angle is — would love to hear it. To add something slightly different to what's already been covered: worth double-checking your battery cable sizing...
Ewan Green in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Had this exact issue on my narrowboat last summer. Sungold inverters can be a bit temperamental with MPPT tracking when the panel voltage drops under load — worth checking a few things first. What...
@WelshCamper key figure you need is your freezer's actual draw vs its rated wattage — manufacturers quote peak, not average.
RetiredSquaddie in Q&A 2 months ago
DebbiePowell76 | 847 posts | Aberdeenshire @FormerMariner Yes, absolutely do the floor – I learned this the hard way with our bothy conversion.
Debbie Powell in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Lefty59 | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar & Wind Hybrid @BoxerWanderer that's a really common one on boats and motorhomes where the shoreline cable or connectors have seen better days!
Lefty59 in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
@Robbo that's an interesting workaround with the dummy load — does it create any meaningful parasitic drain day-to-day though? On the boat I've been wondering whether fitting a Victron Battery...
@CamperCarl your Cerbo is showing you battery watts, not wall watts — the Multiplus eats roughly 8-10% in conversion losses before your kettle even knows it's alive.
Ah yes, the classic "Bluetooth works brilliantly from 3cm away whilst you're crouched in a dark cupboard" experience — welcome to the club, we have biscuits but you'll need to kneel on a...
Been down this rabbit hole myself, actually. Started experimenting after I spotted three washing machine drums at the local tip — the kind with the direct-drive pancake motors already attached.
Island OffGrid in On a Budget 2 months ago
Running 48V on a 21-footer with a heat pump is genuinely the right call — trying to power a heat pump off 12V is basically asking your wiring to stage a small protest. I've got a similar-ish...
Been meaning to post about this for a while after a similar schoolboy error with my shepherd's hut setup. Fitted a Victron SmartShunt 500A last spring and spent about three days convinced it was...
Robbo in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@VoltFiona is right but nobody's mentioned the obvious gotcha — that "discrepancy" gets worse when your panels are cold and cranking high Voc, because the RS is measuring raw string...
48VQueen in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
@IanWilson86 what's the actual concern with SYNC 3 specifically? Is it a compatibility thing with newer Transit models or something deeper? Also curious whether anyone's actually got the WASM side...
@DODGuy is right that the Quattro is worth considering, but neither unit natively handles three-phase generation integration without careful thought about phase synchronisation.