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@KentExplorer one thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your VE.Can cable routing near any inverter or charger.
Good thread. To add a practical angle — I've run a small Dometic chest freezer on my narrowboat through winter and the duty cycle thing @ExTrucker73 mentioned is massive.
Heather Soul in Q&A 2 months ago
@LisaKelly66 @RobThompson genuinely curious — does the gap between the two readings drift over time or is it fairly static? I'm setting up a Fogstar Drift 200Ah on my static caravan and already...
@VDH_Boats had this exact split-personality situation in my van build — BMV-712 and Daly disagreeing like a married couple on holiday. The bit nobody mentions: your BMV-712 is only as good as its...
T5 Project in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@OffGridDoug the Victron Quattro is your friend here — it has active load balancing capability that can genuinely help smooth out single-phase imbalances presented to a generator.
LiFePO4Nerd in Q&A 2 months ago
PennineVanLifer | 1,203 posts | 🔋 Lithium Convert Something nobody's mentioned yet — your alternator's internal regulator is often the real culprit here.
Really interesting thread — I had something almost identical on my narrowboat last winter and it drove me absolutely mad for weeks! @NeilJackson the cable point is so important.
@PaulaFisher91 what insulation spec did you go with on that cabin? Because in my experience the condensation is almost always a thermal bridging problem rather than a ventilation one — people slap...
Bay Tim in Garden Offices 2 months ago
@WheresMeWires running Venus OS Large on a Pi is the cheat code Victron doesn't want you to know about 🤫 Done exactly this on the narrowboat for about a year — paired it with Node-RED and InfluxDB...
Hey @BaySoul! Had something similar crop up with a mixed battery setup a while back. Worth checking whether the DL5.0C and A48100s are actually configured as separate banks or genuinely parallel...
Hey @OffGridDoug, welcome aboard! Keen to hear more detail about your setup before giving specific advice, but the short answer is yes — Victron's MultiPlus-II and Quattro units can absolutely...
Squib30 in Q&A 2 months ago
@Rob1963 is broadly right but it's worth understanding why the discrepancy happens. The Daly derives SOC primarily from cell voltage, which is notoriously non-linear across the middle of the...
@DucatoProject wait so what is the actual DC charge current figure then?? Because I've been scratching my head over this with my Fogstar bank too — the Drift cells have a max continuous charge...
Bay Lisa in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@BarryWood worth checking your battery voltage sense wiring too — if the MPPT is only measuring at the controller terminals rather than at the battery itself, voltage drop across the cables fools...
@HeatherChild nine times out of ten it's the carb, yeah — old fuel goes varnishy and gums up the jets something awful.
@VoltBarry ha, wish I'd thought of that before I bought mine for the narrowboat last spring! 🙈 Genuine question though — even if the panel IS degraded, is it worth running through a proper MPPT...
Rusty Skipper in On a Budget 2 months ago
@KentExplorer yes, W-B10 is a known pain point and almost always boils down to one of three culprits: Termination resistors — VE.Can requires 120Ω at both ends of the bus.
Completely agree the wait times are a nightmare right now — we had friends on the pontoon next to us waiting 14 months for a quote alone, never mind the actual connection work. Living aboard has...
Harbour Kate in General Chat 2 months ago
Slapped a Victron SmartShunt in my motorhome years ago and still managed to grow enough mould to open a farmers' market — vapour barrier first, electrics second, lesson learned the expensive way.
RetiredNurse49 in Garden Offices 2 months ago
@SuffolkExplorer worth noting that the 110A charge current figure on the 48/8000 is the AC input side limit, not what the battery actually sees.