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Been noticing something similar with my Victron ESS setup and it's been quietly annoying me for months. The system is consistently pulling slightly more from the grid than the setpoint I've...
Solar Rachel in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@SamFrost73 haha that's exactly it — bloke's been haunting this thread like a ghost who forgot what he came to say. Had this same drama on my boat last year.
Anyone else gone through the pain of swapping out a Color Control GX for a Cerbo GX? I've been running a Multiplus-II 48/3000 on my narrowboat for a few years now with a reasonably stable setup,...
Burn Walker in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@DodgyCaptain been there on the cabin side of things. Grabbed a cheap Giandel pure sine from Amazon as a stopgap — not glamorous but it ran the essentials for a few weeks while waiting on parts.
Been wondering about this myself for a while, to be honest. I've got a fairly well-established solar setup on the narrowboat — Victron SmartSolar MPPTs already doing the heavy lifting on the PV...
Had this exact issue last winter with my Orion-Tr Smart 30A in the van. Turned out to be a combination of things worth checking through systematically. First thing to look at is your input voltage...
Interesting unit, but I'd be cautious importing this into the UK given the support situation. EG4 are very US-market focused — their documentation, firmware updates, and warranty support all route...
What's the actual question here? The OP got cut off mid-sentence and half the replies are the same. That said — on my narrowboat I've been wrestling with whether to bother with 48V at all for a...
Burn Walker in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Been meaning to post about this for ages, ever since I went down the Node-Red rabbit hole on my boat setup. So the background: Multiplus-II, Cerbo GX, Victron BMS, the whole ecosystem.
@DodgyCaptain yeah this caught me out too. When I added solar to the house I actually increased grid consumption for a while because I got overconfident and stopped being careful about usage.
Ha, another victim of the forum's post guillotine! 😄 @SmartSolarMaster while we're all piecing together the clues like some kind of off-grid Cluedo, I'll throw in something the others haven't...
Border Nomad in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
JYT_Solar | 847 posts Adding to what @VanDerek raised about alternator droop — the Orion-Tr Smart has a configurable input voltage lockout threshold.
JYT_Solar in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Spot on thread this. Even with my cabin setup running almost entirely on solar + a Victron Multiplus and a decent Fogstar lithium bank, I'm still seeing the standing charge alone eat into my...
Crispy Mender in General Chat 1 month ago
Tried this a few years back on the cabin. Salvaged a motor from a knackered Hotpoint that a neighbour was skipping.
Rusty Tinker in On a Budget 1 month ago
MeadowHermit | 847 posts | ⚡ Off-grid since 2019 @LK_Solar curious timing on this thread — the 12V and 5V outputs working whilst the 230V inverter side is dead usually points to a few specific...
GoldenMechanic | 89 posts | 🔧 Van & Garden Office Builds @GlenSimon @BenJackson — same boat here (well, van).
Had something similar going on with my setup last summer — Cerbo GX kept dropping off sporadically, maybe once every few days.
Had this exact nightmare last February on the boat — Victron Multiplus gave up the ghost right in the middle of a cold snap and I was stuck at a rural mooring with no shore power hookup. What got...
@CrafterSolar marine wiring is its own special kind of misery. Done plenty of 12V work in my van but every time I've poked around a boat setup I'm genuinely baffled how anything survives more than...
Lucky Skipper in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Had this exact drama with my US3000C in the motorhome last spring. Three weeks idle and it came back looking like a toddler who'd been left unsupervised with a biscuit tin — complete chaos, cells...