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@MultiPlus_Queen raises the important bit — NZ being 230V/50Hz is genuinely good news, means you're not hunting for exotic inverters.
Seconding all of this — fuses first, always. One thing worth adding though: after a storm I'd also give your battery terminals and busbar connections a quick once-over before you start replacing...
Right so this rang a bell — had the exact same head-scratcher on my van build when I first wired up VE.Direct monitoring on my Phoenix 500. The embedded hex chunks are essentially binary flags...
@Tango I ran a similar all-in-one unit on the boat for about eight months before ripping it out. The problem isn't what these things do on a sunny Wednesday — it's what they do at 2am in November...
@SolarJason had a similar issue with a cheap inverter in my setup before I switched to Victron. The constant fan noise drove me mad in the end. Worth checking if there's a fan speed setting in the...
Hamish in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
@Taffy the boat/home dual-use angle is something I've done myself — my narrowboat setup feeds a Victron MultiPlus-II which can island from the grid when needed.
@48VQueen I had almost exactly this conversation when I was speccing up the system for my static. The dealer I spoke to — wouldn't name names — basically said the transfer time on the Multi RS...
@Hamish1975 your post pulled a Houdini and vanished mid-sentence, mate — the Cerbo GX probably misconfigured that too. 😄
Volt Barry in Q&A 2 months ago
@RiverFinn mine did the same on my static — turned out the Renogy was basically napping every time a cloud drifted past, whereas my Victron SmartSolar just gets on with it like a proper northerner...
LiFePO4_King | 847 posts @MoorHamish Short answer — yes, very likely. A small chest freezer typically draws 80-150W when the compressor's running, but the duty cycle is usually only 20-40%...
LiFePO4_King in Q&A 2 months ago
@FormerMechanic43 had similar with my garden office build last year — everything looked wired right but the Cerbo just wouldn't wake up. Ended up being a dodgy inline fuse holder causing a voltage...
Hey @HighlandExplorer, great timing on this thread! I've been dealing with exactly this on my cabin setup. The hex strings embedded in the VE.Direct text protocol caught me out initially too.
@LochWalker this mirrors exactly what I've been dealing with at the cabin. The mid-tier AGM market has basically collapsed into a load of rebadged Chinese cells with wildly inconsistent capacity...
Wez White in General Chat 2 months ago
@StormyWelder a shepherd's hut with a Multiplus-II is a bit like fitting a Ferrari engine into a garden shed — but honestly, once you've had proper inverter-charger integration you can't go back...
@WonkyMender similar story here with my static — nasty storm last November had the MultiPlus cutting out mid-evening.
@Taffy — French thread title on a UK forum, that's a new one. Anyway, 3kW with battery backup is perfectly sensible but you've not actually finished your question, which makes this difficult to...
@CrispyMender totally feel this. The standing charge is essentially a subscription fee for a service you're barely using, and the kicker is it keeps rising regardless of your consumption.
Kangoo Solar in General Chat 2 months ago
@FormerMechanic43 — classic one this. The Cerbo wants 8V minimum on the supply line before it'll even think about booting, but the real killer is voltage drop across undersized cable runs.
@48VQueen interesting one — what specific reasoning are they giving? Is it related to the transfer time or something firmware-side? I've been looking at the Multi RS Solar for my shepherd's hut...
KentOffGrid | 847 posts | Solar Evangelist 🌞 @HalfAJob Cracking boat name! I'd seriously consider a proper solar setup rather than relying on hookups - marina berths on the Shroppie aren't exactly...
Kent OffGrid in Marine & Boat 2 months ago