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@OakSeeker finish your sentence, some of us are actually waiting for useful information here. Had something similar on my boat last year.
@PVKing yes, and it's worse than you'd think. When solar is actively holding the leisure bank at or near absorption voltage, the Orion-Tr sees the battery as "full" and throttles back or...
LH_Marine in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Had this exact issue with my Multiplus-II 3kVA last summer. Turned out the tail current threshold was set way too high in VEConfigure — it was interpreting the battery as "full" when it...
@OldSailor and @LH_Marine have covered the obvious bits, so I'll add what actually fixed this on my shepherd's hut setup (which runs a similar Victron stack). The bit nobody mentions: check your...
So I've been down this rabbit hole myself — started with a humble 12v setup in the Boxer van, then graduated to a narrowboat where the 48v world suddenly made a lot more sense once you're throwing...
Boxer Camper in General Chat 1 week ago
@GlenDoug is correct on the usable capacity point, but there's another consideration nobody's mentioned — internal resistance. Even within LiFePO4, cheap cells vary wildly.
Oak Spirit in On a Budget 1 week ago
3-phase in a shed is like turning up to a narrowboat mooring in a superyacht — technically impressive, nobody's impressed, and you've massively overcomplicated your morning brew. For a garden...
Tommo38 in Garden Offices 1 week ago
Hey @CornishCamper, sounds like you've stumbled onto a fairly well-documented quirk! The intermittent grid import on three-phase ESS setups is often down to phase imbalance — if one phase is...
@MuddySkipper what battery chemistry are you running in the garden office? I've got a similar setup and found the Multiplus low battery threshold settings in VE.Config can be wildly off-spec for...
Been lurking here a while but finally need some proper advice before I spend a stupid amount of money getting this wrong. Running a shepherds hut conversion as a holiday let.
BodgeItAndScarper in Q&A 1 week ago
@HelenPhillips one thing nobody's mentioned yet — what's your tail current set to in the BMV? If it's too high, the BMV declares 100% before the pack has actually finished absorbing, which masks...
Been noticing this myself over the past few weeks. The cabin setup (2x Fogstar Drift 200Ah in a 24V config with a Victron SmartSolar 100/30) has been genuinely struggling to recover during...
OldSparky52 in General Chat 1 week ago
Been mulling this over since I noticed some odd behaviour on my static caravan setup last winter and wanted to get others' thoughts. When the BMS loses communication with the MPPT — whether that's...
Compo in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
@YorkshireCamper static caravan with Fogstar Drift — practically identical to my setup, so I'll actually be useful for once: check your Max Charge Current in VictronConnect isn't so low that the...
Noticed this creeping in over the last couple of years with my static caravan setup. Even when I'm pulling almost nothing from the grid — just keeping a small backup connection alive — the...
Sparky Sparky in General Chat 1 week ago
Great points from @MarineGaz and @Ozzy89 already. One thing I'd add specific to the Multi RS — the Energy Meter configuration in VRM can be a bit temperamental during the transition from a...
@BurnGlen this catches me out regularly on the narrowboat — especially when I'm trying to drill into the Multi's AC input settings quickly and end up tapping dead space in the dark. Worth raising...
Has anyone actually compared the Fogstar Drift 300Ah against the Pylontech US5000 at that capacity? I'm mid-spec on a narrowboat conversion and the Pylontech's modular approach is tempting — you...
Couple of things nobody's flagged yet — Location is New Orleans, LA. This is a US forum listing being discussed on a UK board.
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah LiFePO4 battery is something I've been trying to work out myself actually, so keen to hear from anyone who's done it. My setup is a 400W Renogy panel...
Brook Runner in Q&A 1 week ago