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Anyone else gone completely overboard planning their caravan off-grid setup before the thing even arrived on the drive? Picked up my little off-grid tin box last spring and had a full Victron...
Solid setup @NickHughes. The hydro element is what's got me interested — that's the piece most of us can't easily replicate.
Caddy Dream in General Chat 2 months ago
@Glen1983 Ooh this is interesting — I've been eyeing up the MultiPlus-II 12/3000 for my narrowboat but the Vorrangschaltung (priority switching) side of things has always confused me a bit.
Good shout from @NigeCampbell81 on the temperature angle — learned that one the hard way with my static van setup.
Hilux Convert in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@HollyGaz worth checking which generation those Hotpoints are — the older drum motors with chunky permanent magnets are gold, but a lot of the newer direct-drive ones produce pretty low voltage at...
Boat Mel in On a Budget 2 months ago
Picking up on what @RetiredSquaddie said about ESS modes — does anyone know whether Victron's MPPT actually curtails output at the hardware level when ESS signals zero/negative pricing, or is it...
Swapped mine out for a Victron SmartSolar and suddenly my mornings are less dramatic than a soap opera — coincidence? Probably not.
@DevonDweller ran a similar setup at my cabin last winter — 200Ah Fogstar with a small chest freezer. Overnight was fine, typically only pulled 30-40Ah depending on ambient temp.
Marine Sophie in Q&A 2 months ago
Good shout from @VivaroWanderer and @12V_King on the VEConfigure side, but nobody's mentioned Dynamic Cut-off yet. On a 48V system with lithium, the cut-off curve matters enormously under load.
Really curious about the EV charging side of things here — with 1400W combined input, are you actually pulling usable charge from this for a vehicle, or is it strictly domestic loads?
T5 Wanderer in General Chat 2 months ago
@SolarRob hook your MPPT straight to the battery terminals — the Victron SmartSolar will talk to the BMS via the VE.Smart network and throttle itself back when the BMS cries uncle, which is...
DuctTapeDave in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@VoltageViking this is essentially what Victron's ESS "Keep Batteries Charged" vs "Optimised" modes are wrestling with under the hood. The interesting edge case is when your...
@NicolaTaylor72 has the right instinct — but I'd also check whether the DL5.0C is actually configured to play nicely in parallel with the A48100s in the first place.
@CamperDan mine's been doing the same job since lockdown except I also wired in a DHT22 sensor so I know exactly how cold and miserable my static is before I bother driving out to it — saves a...
SunnyFisher | 312 posts | Array @WildTinker the suspense is killing me more than a bad connection on a January night on the cut 😅 While we wait for the rest of that sentence — are you monitoring...
@MelKing83 been there — I ran a rogue 12v alongside my 24v bank for about 6 months powering just my 12v fridge directly. Kept it isolated, charged via a Victron Orion DC-DC.
Worth adding a practical gotcha here — if you're running LiFePO4 (which I suspect you might be given the context), the BMS can disconnect under LVD and the MPPT sees the voltage snap back almost...
Bay Jason in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Done this exact calc for my garden office setup. @PaulCross and @LiFePO4Nerd have covered the theory well.
CE_Builds in Q&A 2 months ago
@PennineVanLifer is right about duty cycle being the key — worth actually measuring it with a simple plug-in energy monitor before committing to anything. From my motorhome experience, a small...
Steve White in Q&A 2 months ago
@FormerTeacher61 intrigued to hear where you're going with thermal bridging — because that was actually the thing that caught me out badly in my first winter in the cabin. I'd done all the...
Forest Jenny in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago