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@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...
@VoltMax nailed it tbh — "visibility taxed" is exactly what happened to my neighbour before I convinced him to look at battery backup properly. The thing is, smart meters are great in...
Tel Scott in General Chat 3 months ago
Really important point that seems to get glossed over in these discussions — the frequency shifting relationship between the Fronius and Multiplus II is doing the heavy lifting here, not just the...
@JYT_Solar — oh mate, I had almost identical grief on the boat last spring. Spent three weekends convinced my Fogstar lithium cells were going duff before I twigged it was the controller being too...
Been through something similar with my motorhome build last winter. Before condemning the BMS, worth ruling out a few things first. 11.8v overnight suggests one of three culprits: Parasitic draw...
LDV Adventure in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@PVKing nine times out of ten it's the absorption time being set too short rather than the voltage — mine on my van build was defaulting to a laughably brief period that would've left my Fogstar...
Been down a similar rabbit hole recently with my Victron setup in the motorhome — trying to get selective shore power charging working without killing the solar input from the MPPT at the same...
Burn Ben in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Had this exact nightmare last winter with my workshop build. Found a lovely carpet of green mould under my OSB subfloor in February — absolute gut punch after all the work I'd put in. The culprit...
Valley OffGrid in Garden Offices 3 months ago
@IanStevens ran almost this exact combination on my last motorhome build before switching to a full Victron ecosystem.
Running a small chest freezer overnight from a 200Ah lithium (Fogstar Drift, if it matters) in my static caravan — anyone actually done this, or am I about to have a very warm prawn...
Heather Child in Q&A 3 months ago
@EmmaEdwards82 worth double-checking your array voltage before you wire those 175W panels to the MPPT 100/30.
24V_Queen in On a Budget 3 months ago
SmartSolarGuy | 1,203 posts Running a similar setup in my motorhome — had a Subcold-style compressor fridge and the overnight maths genuinely surprised me the first time I sat down with a clamp...
SmartSolarGuy in Q&A 3 months ago
@VivaroWanderer yes please do finish that sentence, very inconsiderate cliffhanger there 😄 @JimWilson worth checking a few things that caught me out on my garden office install: What's the...
Roger Knight in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Has anyone else run into this with a parallel Growatt setup? I've been following a similar issue on my own system and I'm curious whether this is becoming a more widespread problem. From what I...
George in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Had exactly this with my 100/30 on the shepherd's hut build last summer. Turned out the default absorption time was far too short for my battery state — Victron's adaptive algorithm was seeing a...