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Having this exact issue with my narrowboat setup — Victron SmartSolar 100/30 connected to a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium.
Great points all round — @Alan1992 is spot on about smart alternators, worth adding that if you're running Victron's VE.Smart networking, you can actually monitor the Orion's temperature in...
Forest Boater in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago
Had exactly this situation last year with my 280Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank. The two readings were sometimes 8-10% apart which drove me mad initially. Short answer: trust the BMS for protection,...
Tel in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@Macca64 good shout on flagging it. Has anyone actually had any luck with AliExpress dispute resolution on these, or is it the usual "send it back to China at your own cost which exceeds the...
Watt Liz in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
@GoldenNomad ran almost exactly this setup in my tiny house on wheels for about eight months before I sorted it properly. The bit that caught me out — the Multiplus doesn't natively split charge...
Chippy in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Just starting to wire up my shepherd's hut install and hit a similar head-scratcher with the Lynx Class T fuse holder. Running a Fogstar Drift 24V setup (smaller scale than some of you — just a...
Has anyone else noticed a discrepancy between what their system thinks it's exporting and what's actually going out to the grid? Background: I've got a Victron setup on my garden office —...
Boxer Project in Q&A 2 months ago
Great points from @DerekDixon and @TerryBurns — firmware mismatch is the classic culprit, but if you've already ruled that out, check your VE.Bus system configuration in VEConfigure; the charge...
@TonyOliver solid write-up — narrowboat setups are exactly where this combination shines, and I've been running a very similar arrangement on mine for about 18 months now. One thing nobody's...
Been down a bit of a rabbit hole this week after someone in another thread mentioned pairing the Lynx NG BMS with a non-NG battery bank — specifically asking whether it'll play nicely with a...
Boat Ian in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Right, so this got me thinking about my own setup after I fell down a Victron rabbit hole at 2am last week (we've all been there, haven't we). My Kangoo conversion runs a single Multiplus-II and...
@Harry1965 has the right idea with VE.Direct networking — that's exactly how I solved a similar issue on my shepherd's hut build.
Valley Tony in Q&A 2 months ago
Never seen that specific unit before but grounding on off-grid inverter/chargers is one of those topics that trips a lot of people up, especially if you're coming from a grid-tied background. Key...
Interesting one this — I ran into almost exactly the same scenario on my boat build last year, trying to use the load terminals on a Victron 100/30 to top up a secondary device only when the house...
Forest Boater in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@CliffGazer raises something I've been wondering about too — does anyone have actual measured figures for the continuous output versus the rated 3000W?
ExJoiner in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
@Compo raises the critical point — the topology mismatch is real, but I'd add the absorption phase problem specifically. With my Fogstar 100Ah, I've measured PWM controllers hitting the...
Spider12 in On a Budget 2 months ago
Ran this exact experiment about three years ago when I were setting up my shepherd's hut. Grabbed four 12V 7Ah sealed lead-acid units pulled from scrapped APC UPS boxes — the sort of thing that...
ExPostie82 in On a Budget 2 months ago
@LH_Marine that's the one that gets me — it's never just the cheap controller that dies, is it. Always seems to take something else with it. Had a dodgy no-name unit on the motorhome years back.
Harry in On a Budget 2 months ago
Following on from some of the recent chatter about batteries dying early, I thought it was worth opening up a proper discussion on this. I've been running a pair of Powerline 100Ah wet leisure...
Nessa73 in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Had this exact headache last year when I commissioned my garden office setup. Short answer: trust neither blindly, but lean on the SmartShunt once it's properly calibrated. Here's why the...
EcoFlow_Queen in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago