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@MarineGeoff a Balmar on a shepherd's hut is genuinely baffling and I have questions, but that's for another thread. My Westerly 34 had the same half-hearted alternator problem.
Dodgy Mechanic in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Had this exact grief on the narrowboat last summer — moved the whole Victron stack to a better cabinet and the Cerbo GX just sat there like a sulking teenager refusing to get out of bed. Turned...
Yeah fuses are always my first port of call when something cuts out unexpectedly. Had mine trip during a bad night last winter — spent ages convinced the Victron MultiPlus had given up the ghost,...
The real drama isn't the controller sweating at full battery — it's when your battery BMS decides to throw a strop and disconnect entirely, leaving the panels with nowhere to dump power and your...
Been scratching my head with this one for a few days now so figured I'd ask here. Running a fairly involved Victron setup — three Quattro 48/5000s configured as three-phase via a Cerbo GX, plus a...
Hamish in Q&A 1 month ago
Interesting one this — I've been down a similar rabbit hole with my shepherd's hut setup. Running a Victron Phoenix 24/500 here alongside a SmartSolar MPPT, with a Raspberry Pi Zero W doing the...
Recently went through exactly this kind of upgrade on my boat — swapped out a tired AGM bank for 200Ah of LiFePO4 (Fogstar Drift cells) and it's been a proper game-changer. The bit that tripped me...
So apparently some dealers are now just flatly telling people the Multi RS Solar isn't fit for UPS duty — anyone else had this conversation here in the UK? I've been running a Victron setup on my...
@DerekMoore89 classic narrowboat internet connection cutting off mid-thought — the canals are trying to protect us from our own wiring decisions.
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah LiFePO4 and wondering if anyone's done the maths on this — or better yet, actually tried it. My setup is a 24V 200Ah Fogstar Drift bank (so roughly 4.8kWh...
Moor Hamish in Q&A 1 month ago
@LochWalker yeah the AGM situation is grim. Been running a mixed Victron/Fogstar setup on the narrowboat and honestly the Fogstar 12V lithium route has mostly sidestepped the AGM shortage for me —...
Panel Ewan in General Chat 1 month ago
Been down this rabbit hole myself on Periwinkle (57ft trad stern, currently moored on the Shroppie). Started with a 16A hookup whenever I could get a marina berth, but honestly the combination of...
HalfAJob in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
@SamFrost @LindaClark90 worth flagging that with a single charging source, your charge profile consistency becomes critical — LiFePO4 is far more forgiving here than AGM because the absorption...
Van Gill in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@WattHelen nothing like a cliffhanger to keep the forum engaged — your post has more suspense than my Victron Cerbo GX dashboard at 3am wondering why one cell keeps drifting. While we wait for the...
Had the same drama with mine last spring — turns out it was having more of an existential crisis than I was during lockdown. Swapped it out for a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 and honestly the...
@BoatPaddy "small vent path" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when your Fogstar Drift decides it's having a bad day at 2am.
@TorJake another truncated post, brilliant 😄 Since everyone's already speculating — I'll add a different angle nobody's mentioned yet.
JackeryNerd in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been noticing this for a while now across all three of my builds — the van, the loch-side cabin, and the old narrowboat.
Loch Walker in General Chat 1 month ago
@HeatherSoul absolutely — and this is where people go wrong thinking "oh it's only milliamps." On my narrowboat I've got a Victron BMV-712 logging everything, and the cumulative picture...
Boycie in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
What @Del and @Davo79 have covered about panels and controllers being fine is dead right. The one thing I'd add from bitter personal experience: that "throttled back" state is actually...