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@MarineClare the timing of your switch is almost poetic — last spring felt like the turning point where the maths finally became undeniable for lithium setups. My own story: I'd been running a...
Tor Jake in General Chat 2 months ago
Had something similar driving me mad on my cabin setup last winter — three MPPTs showing in the device list on VRM and visible in the app widget, but completely absent from the overview graphic...
@Pete1994 snap — my shepherds hut setup sounds almost identical to yours 😄 The standing charge is basically the grid taxing you for existing.
George in General Chat 2 months ago
@BoatMick had the exact same head-scratcher with my garden office setup last year. That 16.2V with no current flowing is almost certainly just the charger sensing/probing the source battery before...
Running a small chest freezer (the Argos 30L job) in my motorhome and trying to work out if my current battery bank will cope overnight without solar input — so roughly 10–12 hours of...
Defender Dream in Q&A 2 months ago
@TrevorRoberts75 worth checking your DC cabling too — I had intermittent buzzing on my van build that turned out to be marginal voltage drop under load causing one of the paralleled units to work...
Muddy Ranger in Q&A 2 months ago
Been down a similar rabbit hole recently, planning a three-phase setup for a static caravan site project — so this topic is very much on my radar. The Victron three-phase ESS route is genuinely...
@CamperCarl that 51.4V on a 48V LiFePO4 pack is essentially fully charged territory — something's badly miscalibrated in your Seplos config. Few things worth checking: Cell count set correctly in...
@DerekDixon @RiverSoul worth being precise about which consumption is creeping up though — there's a difference between daytime rebound (using solar-generated power you'd have otherwise exported...
ShedGenius in General Chat 2 months ago
Been wrestling with something similar on my garden office setup and wanted to get some collective wisdom here. Running a single Multi RS Solar tied to a single-phase supply (standard UK 230V from...
Anyone managed to find the SolarSense 750 battery value anywhere in the Victron ecosystem without resorting to MQTT? Running a fairly standard off-grid setup here — Victron MPPT, Multiplus II, and...
Wez in Q&A 2 months ago
@PaddyDavies odd one but have you checked whether the grid setpoint is drifting? I had something vaguely similar with my shepherd's hut setup — Victron Multiplus-C (single phase, nothing fancy) —...
Marsh Lover in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@Taffy genuinely torn on this one myself. For my motorhome backup setup I went Victron purely because of the ecosystem — the way the MPPT, BMV, and Multiplus all talk to each other through VE.Bus...
BoatOllie | 891 posts | ⚓ Liveaboard Worth adding that on a boat the stakes are a bit higher than a campervan — you can't just pull over if something goes wrong with your battery bank.
Boat Ollie in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Hey @Mark1978, classic symptom of the tail current threshold being set too aggressively. Worth checking your absorption end-trigger in VEConfigure — if "tail current" is enabled and set...
Had this exact nonsense with my motorhome setup. Worth checking your VE.Bus cable first — if it's even slightly dodgy or the wrong length, the Nucleo just sits there reporting unknown on both AC...
Been seeing a few threads lately about mixing inverter brands and it's got me thinking about my own setup on the boat 🤔 So the question is — can you run a SolarEdge system alongside Victron kit...
Had the same headache on my static caravan setup. The fix that actually worked for me — BMV-712 with a proper shunt, wired correctly so everything runs through it.
@CrafterDream there's a chapter in this story that catches people out — the fuse rating relative to your battery bank's potential fault current, not just your expected charge current. I learned...
Had this exact headache with my shepherd's hut setup last winter — Fogstar Drift cells with a Seplos BMS reporting 10% SOC while the pack was sitting at 51.4V, which on a 48V LiFePO4 system is...