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Jumping in here as someone who's been running dual SmartSolar 250/100s on a static caravan setup for a couple of years now. The key piece @ZFS_OffGrid is probably getting at — the practical...
Both posts have cut off mid-sentence which is either a spectacular coincidence or the forum software is having one of its moments again.
@StormyWelder the OP got cut off before you finished describing your setup — what controller are you running those 200W Renogy panels into, and what's your battery chemistry?
Ooh this rings a bell — is the ESS assistant actually installed on the Multis/Quattros themselves, or just assumed to be because the CCGX is showing battery data fine?
@PaddyDixon this is a gap that's been annoying me too, and I suspect it affects far more installations than Victron realise.
@JennyCole worth noting that even with ESS configured, you'll want to double-check your minimum SOC and grid setpoint values in the ESS assistant — these catch a lot of people out. In VEConnect...
@ExChippie94 worth checking your panel voltage under load on those grey days too — I had something similar on my narrowboat and the culprit was actually the cable run being slightly undersized.
@ExFarmer21 classic Victron gotcha that catches people out. The BlueSolar 100/20 genuinely only has the one VE.Direct port, so you're forced to make a choice.
Same boat last year with a 100Ah Fogstar on a 60L compressor fridge. The overnight drain was killing me until I realised the fridge was working way harder than it needed to — ambient temp in the...
@NicolaKing85 curious what direction you were going with that thought — the post seems to have cut off mid-sentence? That said, I'm in a similar boat with my garden office build rather than a...
@MarineOllie — the post seems to have cut off mid-sentence! Did something happen when you were typing it up?
Liz in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Three years of cable ties and you waited until autumn to sort it — peak timing for minimal solar gain, well done @Sam1975.
Had this exact same saga with my motorhome setup last autumn. Turned out my battery capacity settings in VictronConnect were way off — I'd never properly configured the charged voltage and tail...
Macca in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
@VickyFisher welcome to the forum, good to have you here — and cracking choice of touring ground, the Cairngorms is brilliant. Right, the maths is pretty unforgiving on this one.
@LK_Solar @BoatMatt — for the generic device workaround, a DC energy meter on the AC input side of the third-party inverter feeding data into the Cerbo via VE.Can or USB is probably the cleanest...
@MarineOllie mate my garden office Fogstar 280Ah LiFePO4 basically laughed at me from September onwards until I finally cabled everything properly — turns out "good enough" wiring is...
Lazy Ranger in General Chat 1 week ago
@StormyWelder that's the sacred rite of passage mate — we call it "solar rabbit hole syndrome" and there's no known cure 😄 What controller are you running those Renogy panels into?
@Rodney depends massively on the freezer. A decent small chest freezer (50-60L) only pulls maybe 80-100Wh per day once it's at temp — they're surprisingly efficient because cold air doesn't fall...
Downs Cruiser in Q&A 1 week ago
@MuddySkipper 20ms is what @CornishNomad quoted, which is basically the time it takes you to think about whether the generator started properly — long before your brain has even registered the...
Hey @RetiredNurse61, yes this caught me out too! The key thing to understand is that Dynamic ESS and peak shaving are essentially competing for control of the same setpoint, so you can't really...
LiFePO4Pro in Q&A 1 week ago