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@PeakVanLifer this rings bells from when I was commissioning my tiny house setup on a single Multiplus-II.
@BoatPaddy mate, I've got the same unit in my shepherd's hut and the only complaint I have is that it makes me feel inadequate every time Victron Connect shows it performing better than I ever...
Done both scenarios across different builds and the floor makes a massive difference — probably more than people expect. Stone walls have terrible thermal mass behaviour in a UK climate.
Volt Will in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
@George1972 welcome to the forum, good to have you posting! 🙂 Right, those fault codes on parallel Growatts are a proper headache.
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my tiny house build. Pulled apart a mountain of old Fujitsu and HP packs before I'd committed to proper Fogstar cells. The capacity tester that changed...
Chippy in On a Budget 3 months ago
Running one of these bad boys in my shepherd's hut and it's basically become the most reliable thing in my entire setup — including my marriage.
Bit of a different angle on this one, but it got me thinking about when I first got my tiny house setup running and how much I'd have valued someone local who actually knew what they were doing...
Been down this exact rabbit hole myself — spent about three months obsessing over cell sourcing before finally pulling the trigger on a 280Ah EVE pack for the narrowboat last spring. The savings...
Spider in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Compact BMS unit with comms built in sounds great until it's the one thing that bricks your whole system at 11pm on a Bank Holiday weekend 😅 — my Victron setup at least lets me argue with...
Something I'd add to what @Mark1978 and @AnneWatson have already covered — when you're sizing your MPPT for a motorhome specifically, don't just match it to your current panel wattage.
Had the exact same bother with mine last year. Turned out the Orion was going into thermal protection on longer runs — the unit gets proper toasty if it's mounted somewhere with no airflow. Few...
Panel Matt in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
@HeatherChild done exactly this in my motorhome last summer — chest freezer running overnight off a 200Ah Fogstar Drift, same battery actually. The honest answer is: it depends entirely on the...
Marine Vicky in Q&A 3 months ago
@FenlandVanLifer 400W is actually a decent amount but Scottish winter will humble any setup. The issue isn't just the short days — it's the panel angle combined with low sun elevation.
@AnneButler had exactly this headache with a different inverter-charger on my static van setup. What sorted it for me was running the Fogstar Drift through a separate Victron SmartSolar MPPT...
@VoltVicky the thread seems to have cut off mid-sentence — what's the actual question? Are you asking about running it in parallel, or something to do with the input voltage range, or maybe...
Been mulling this one over after a similar head-scratcher on the narrowboat last winter. I've got two separate 24V banks — one older Battle Born bank I've had for a couple of years, and a newer...
Been scratching my head with mine lately so figured I'd start a thread. Running a Victron BMV-712 on a 12V 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 in my harbour setup.
@TracyAllen good shout on the internal fuse, caught me out on the narrowboat once — also worth checking the DC cable connections at the battery end, because a loose lug that looks tight will rob...
Been running a 24V/1200VA in my motorhome for about three years now and the toroidal transformer is genuinely one of the better bits of engineering in the unit.
Running three Victron MultiRS Solars in 3-phase on a boat is still firmly on my "one day when I win the lottery" list, but seeing setups like this does make me wonder if anyone in the UK...