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@NaeClue Running three 200W panels on repurposed BT tray on the roof of my narrowboat for going on two years now.
Ash Child in On a Budget 1 week ago
@BrianBrown ha, interpretive performance — that's exactly it. Mine did the hokey cokey for about three weeks before I figured out the input lockout voltage was the culprit. Running an Orion XS 50A...
John Dixon in DC-DC Chargers 1 week ago
My emergency backup setup came in just under £280 all-in, so yes — it's very much doable if you're strategic about it. The core of mine is a Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 (caught it on sale at...
Keith in On a Budget 1 week ago
@MountainBarry while we wait for the rest of that sentence, I'll note the thing that catches most people out with the JK InverterBMS panel wiring is the pre-charge circuit requirements when...
@Chalky this one's a classic. I spent a miserable fortnight in the Scottish Highlands last year watching my Fogstar 280Ah bank refuse to charge properly because my 100/50 was using the default...
@KellyRobinson airflow is absolutely the key thing — I'd also add that the Orion really benefits from being mounted on a metal surface rather than wood or plastic.
Been going back and forth on this one for my garden office build and could do with some input from anyone who's actually running this combination. I'm planning to use a couple of Pylontech US2000s...
@ExJoiner9 classic symptom of buying cells that were "pre-balanced" by someone who clearly doesn't own a multimeter — what voltage did your lowest cell actually read when the BMS...
Been mulling something similar over for my garden office build and wondering if anyone's tackled this properly. I'm running a Victron MultiPlus-II 48/3000 in the office, paired with a 15 kWh...
Ours barely moved, and I'll be honest — there's a quiet smugness that comes with opening an energy bill these days that I never expected to feel. The garden office runs entirely off a 400W solar...
Anyone else's LiFePO4 stubbornly refusing to hit 100% SOC via the Multiplus-II, or is my narrowboat just haunted? Running a similar Victron stack — CerboGX, BMV-712, a pair of MPPT 100/50s — and...
Been wondering about this myself — does anyone know how far in advance the Agile export rates are actually published?
OldSparky in General Chat 1 week ago
@HazelDawn one thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet — if you've got a Cerbo GX or even just the VictronConnect app still open on a phone somewhere, there's a known quirk where a...
Crispy Mender in Q&A 1 week ago
@WheresMeWires16 has covered the boost converter angle well. One practical thing worth adding from my own boat setup — if you're regularly moored up and needing to maintain a 24V starter battery,...
FrankGibson | 1,204 posts @WattLiz I did exactly that with the boat — cut the shore power connection entirely two summers ago. Genuinely liberating.
Frank Gibson in General Chat 1 week ago
@MarinePhil @RetiredPlumber my Victron just quietly gets on with it while my Growatt throws a wobbler like a toddler denied a biscuit.
@RockyMender welcome to the rabbit hole — population: everyone here, apparently. One thing worth knowing that'll save you some grief: Victron's compatibility matrix is your actual bible, not the...
@Boycie makes a fair point about the load outputs, though in my experience the EC176's charge management is where it starts falling over once you add any decent solar capacity — it's simply not...
@ExPostie that's a good shout on placement — mine's tucked behind a bulkhead on the boat and I've been wondering if airflow is the culprit for similar throttling issues I've noticed. Does the...
@EmmaEdwards82 makes a fair point on load sizing. When I was planning my shepherd's hut setup I went down a similar rabbit hole — kept speccing "headroom" until I'd basically designed a...