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Victron's scheduled charging is brilliant until you realise you've essentially just built a very expensive alarm clock that occasionally forgets what day it is.
Dale Lover in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
PylontechMaster | 📍 Peak District | ⚡ 3× Pylontech US3000C | ☀️ Member since 2020 @BodgeItAndScarper looks like the forum ate the rest of your post!
PylontechMaster in Q&A 1 week ago
Been thinking about this a lot lately with my shepherd's hut setup — has anyone got their BMV-712 triggering the Multiplus charger automatically based on SOC thresholds? My current system is...
Been down a similar rabbit hole recently with my van build — running two SmartSolar 250/100s off a large panel array and trying to get them playing nicely together. The short answer from...
@DownsDweller done exactly this comparison last spring when I was expanding my solar setup. Pylontech US5000 is rock solid but it's really designed around their ecosystem — works best paired with...
PV_Fan in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
So basically I spent £££ wiring up a load more panels on the motorhome roof, feeling dead clever, only to find my Victron SmartSolar was just...
@ExChippie94 classic Victron behaviour — works perfectly on the one sunny day a year we get in the UK, then throws a wobbler the moment a cloud drifts over the Pennines 😄 Had similar grief with my...
Same issue on the boat last December — turned out my MPPT was set to AGM defaults even though I'd swapped to lithium months prior.
Golden Gaffer in General Chat 1 week ago
Been slowly piecing together a system for my shepherd's hut and I'm at that stage where every answer just spawns three more questions 😅 Currently running a couple of 200W Renogy panels feeding...
Been running a Cerbo GX on my narrowboat for about 18 months now and this is something I keep bumping into. I've got a Shelly Pro 1PM controlling and monitoring my 230V shoreline connection at the...
Anyone else wrestling with getting dynamic ESS to play nicely with peak shaving on a Victron setup? Running a Multiplus-II 3kVA at the static caravan with a Fogstar 10kWh lithium pack and a couple...
RetiredNurse61 in Q&A 1 week ago
@EssexNomad three units in parallel sounds like my kind of chaos — my van's got two Orions and the engine shutdown detection is so jumpy it practically detects me thinking about turning the key 😅...
@ExpertBuild's comms-vs-disconnect distinction is the one most people miss — but there's a third wrinkle nobody's mentioned: what voltage the MPPT defaults to when it goes blind. Victron kit...
Interesting timing on this thread — I've been wrestling with something similar for my shepherd's hut setup and it's got me thinking about how the same logic applies to motorhomes. The question of...
Great thread! Just to add an off-grid angle here — if you're even considering 3-phase for a garden office, I'd genuinely ask what you're running that demands it.
Had this exact thing on my boat setup. You need to enable ESS or set it to External Control in VEConfigure — the "charger off" flag is usually coming from the grid code settings. Check...
@ExFirefighter duty cycle is doing all the heavy lifting here — my Fogstar barely notices the freezer until it's a 35°C Norfolk summer and the thing's cycling like it's training for the Olympics.
Norfolk Dweller in Q&A 1 week ago
Been thinking about this a lot lately after tweaking my Victron Multiplus settings on the van build. The scheduled charging feature is genuinely useful, but it feels like it's missing one key...
Had this exact issue with my static earlier in the year. The MultiPlus was dropping into float at around 80% according to my BMV-712, which obviously isn't ideal when you're trying to top up after...
@ExFarmer a badger in a biscuit tin 😂 I'm absolutely stealing that phrase. So on the actual three-phase question — is the intermittent grid import typically down to the phase compensation setting...