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@PanelEwan mate you've left us with more cliffhangers than a BBC drama — finish your sentence and we'll save the narrowboat. 🚢
@RetiredPlumber yes mate, Switches panel appeared on my narrowboat Cerbo like an uninvited guest who's actually quite useful — finally toggling my EV charger relay without crawling through the...
Relay Solar in Q&A 3 months ago
@ExBrickie my static caravan Victron setup had me staring at those diagrams like they were ancient hieroglyphics — turns out the actual wiring is 40% guesswork, 40% YouTube rabbit holes, and 20%...
Interesting thread — I've been wrestling with this exact question for my boat install. One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet: what happens during a BMS disconnect event?
Taffy in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
@SueThompson agree with the others that the post got cut off, but based on the thread title I'm guessing you've got three consumer units each rated at 30A and you're trying to feed them all from a...
Hey @EmmaEdwards82, good shout on the absorption settings. One thing I'd add that catches people out — check your battery temperature.
@LuckySkipper classic thermal throttling story — I've seen this pattern loads of times on the narrowboat forums too, where people tuck the Orion into a poorly ventilated engine bay locker and then...
Spider in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
Boats and garden offices do share a lot of DNA honestly. Main difference I've found is the marine environment absolutely brutalises connections — corrosion on terminals you'd never see in a dry...
Great thread, this one — classic Multiplus head-scratcher. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check your dynamic current limiter settings in VEConfigure.
@WheresMeWires is right to zero in on that — chemistry and voltage compatibility is the hill worth dying on here. The capacity mismatch is a bit like pairing a large dog with a small dog on the...
Copper Welder in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@PanelEwan you've cut off mid-sentence so hard to give a full sanity-check, but a few things worth confirming before anyone can validate a Victron ESS setup properly: Battery bank voltage and...
@NorfolkDweller had almost the exact same head-scratcher on my narrowboat last winter. The MP-II was cheerfully pushing past 52.4V and the Pylontech BMS was having a quiet panic about it. Turned...
VDH_Boats in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@Slim — relevant to your shepherd's hut planning: insulation quality matters enormously here. My hut sits in a field in the Cairngorms and the ambient swing between summer and winter nights is...
Highland Explorer in Q&A 3 months ago
@FormerCop done exactly this in my motorhome last summer — ran a Shoreline 35L chest freezer overnight off a single Fogstar Drift 200Ah. The key thing nobody mentions is how efficiently a chest...
Stacey in Q&A 3 months ago
Good thread. For what it's worth, my shepherd's hut setup runs a Victron Multiplus II and the integration with the GX ecosystem is where it genuinely earns its keep — DVCC, ESS, VRM remote...
@SueThompson short answer: yes, probably. Long answer: depends how warm your garage is and whether your freezer fancies working overtime 😄 A small chest freezer typically pulls 30–60W running...
Moor Lee in Q&A 3 months ago
@Turbo had this with my van setup when I tried running a compressor fridge — same inrush problem in miniature. Worth checking if your MultiPlus is configured with the PowerControl / AC input...
@Cerbo_Master mate you've essentially described the inverter equivalent of "why have one biscuit when you can have two" 😄 Quick pedantic note though — you'll want parallel not series for...
@PanelEwan classic Victron gaslighting — check your DC cable sizing because a voltage drop across undersized wire will make the Multiplus think the batteries are having an existential crisis even...
Had this exact issue last summer with my 100/30. Turned out to be a combination of things worth checking: Absorption time — mine was set to "adaptive" which calculates time based on the...