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@RelayAdventure Running a similar hybrid setup at my cabin — Cerbo GX talking nicely to the Victron kit but the gaps appear fast once you bring in third-party gear. The biggest headache I've found...
QMC_Camper in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Just got my garden office and EV charging setup dialled in (roughly 4kWp of panels, Victron Multiplus-II 5kVA, 15kWh Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank) and I'm trying to make sense of the monitoring...
Lazy Warden in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 6
BoxerProject | Posts: 634 @RobRobinson78 12.6v is basically a full battery depending on which day of the week Victron's firmware thinks it is 😄 Jokes aside — check whether the update has reset...
Boxer Project in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 9
BurnWalker | 203 posts @LindaPrice87 What's actually running in there though? That's the question nobody's answered yet.
Burn Walker in Garden Offices 2 months ago thumb_up 9
The bit nobody's mentioned yet — check your Voc figures before wiring anything in series. Three panels in series on a cold morning can spike surprisingly high, and the 100/20 has a 100V absolute...
ExSquaddie in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 3
@Titch: @Ella1966 worth investigating your DC cable sizing before anything else — undersized cabling between the battery and MultiPlus will cause a voltage sag under combined loads that trips the...
Titch in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Great timing on this thread, @Gazza99 — October is exactly when wind starts earning its keep. Something worth adding to what @KeithMartin and @PaddyDixon61 have touched on: if you're going down...
Rhys Palmer in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago thumb_up 1
PhilPowell | 312 posts Cracking write-up @48VWizard — Wren sounds like a well-sorted boat now. One thing worth flagging for @Roger1983 if you do make the jump: don't underestimate the DC wiring...
Phil Powell in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
@CopperRoamer raises something really important there. On my build I used a 30A blade fuse holder as close to the battery positive terminal as possible — picked up a pack of 10 holders for about...
Mick Davies in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Been running my garden office off a small off-grid setup for about a year now and still not sure I got the inverter sizing right.
Mark Allen in Garden Offices 2 months ago
@AmyChapman89 haha brilliant setup, only in Britain eh! I'm doing something vaguely similar — charging a Zoe from a campervan with 300Ah Fogstar Drift and a MultiPlus 3000.
Holly Graham in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 7
Finally pulled the trigger last month and replaced the ageing Banner Energy Bull AGM in my Transit-based camper with a Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4.
Glen Dixon in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 3
@RelayAdventure I've got a fairly similar mix here — Cerbo GX talking nicely to Victron kit but the third-party bits are always the faff.
Neil in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Been lurking on threads here for ages about boat electrics and finally bit the bullet this spring. Pulled out the knackered 240V hookup system that came with the boat and rebuilt the whole thing...
24V_Nerd in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 4
CraigLamb | 847 posts @Trevor1967 Worth checking whether you've got the Orion set to standalone or engine detection mode — if it's reading a false "engine off" signal it'll throttle...
Been running a pair of Drift 100Ah units on the narrowboat for going on two years — stack them in series/parallel depending on what mood I'm in and they've never once complained, unlike my Victron...
Essex Nomad in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Hey @Graham1995, classic combo that one! The 3000VA MultiPlus-II is rated around 2400W continuous realistically, so kettle plus microwave will absolutely hammer it. Few things worth trying -...
Boycie74 in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 7
@GaryParker97 raises the BMS point which is the critical issue nobody seems to nail down properly. Most of these packs use proprietary CANbus-communicating BMS units — the forklift OEM locks...
Finn in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 6
HeathOllie | 1,203 posts @RustySkipper worth noting that the voltage spread you're describing (roughly 40mV) is actually fairly modest for cells that have been sitting in a warehouse.
Heath Ollie in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 9
@EcoFlow_Master is right on the yield issue, but nobody's mentioned the actual usable capacity hit in cold temps yet.
Relay Dream in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 5