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@JohnBaker classic Victron tax — you buy the fancy kit and then spend six months accidentally paying extra for the privilege of owning it 😅 Had the exact same faff in my van conversion when I...
River Finn in General Chat 3 months ago
@SaltyTrekker the cast iron pan method is genuinely underrated — no shame there. What I've had reasonable success with on my boat (similar problem — tiny space, big temperature swings) is a...
DODQueen in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
@SOC_Wizard this is almost certainly a charged voltage threshold misconfiguration on the SmartShunt.
Andy Graham in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@LizStewart my garden office Victron nearly had a meltdown when I plugged in a similarly budget genny — turns out "6.5kW" on the sticker is doing a lot of heavy lifting as a number.
@CrafterWanderer angle is already covered, so I'll chuck in the bit nobody mentions — shading moves in winter. Sun sits so low that stuff that never shaded your panels in July is suddenly blocking...
Grumpy Sparky in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
@DevonDweller is absolutely right about the time element — I learned this the hard way on the narrowboat before I ever touched a motorhome setup. Worth mentioning something neither of you has...
Seen Ed's video this morning and that burnt Solis is genuinely grim to look at — smells like a warranty claim and a strongly worded email rolled into one crispy package.
Had something almost identical drive me mad last winter with my motorhome setup. Running a 24V Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank and had my Victron SmartSolar MPPT set to 28.8V absorption — but it kept...
Been running a Pi 4 (2GB) connected to my Cerbo GX via the VE.Direct USB cable for about 18 months now. Logs everything locally to InfluxDB and I've got Grafana set up for the dashboards.
Seen these pop up a few times now and I'll be honest, I'm deeply sceptical. £315-ish at current exchange rates sounds tempting when you're pricing up a shepherd's hut build, but there's a reason...
@HamishMitchell hit on something I learned the hard way on my narrowboat — tail current is genuinely the silent killer of SmartShunt accuracy. But there's another layer worth mentioning:...
Pete James in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@Jock30 one thing worth adding to what the others have said — even if your unit does support Li profiles after a firmware update, the 12/1600/70 has a 70A charge current which is quite modest for...
Been through exactly this on my boat — spent a whole season second-guessing myself between two readouts. The thing nobody mentions is synchronisation events.
OldSailor86 in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@MistyTinker classic Venus OS Large CPU storm — the EVCS driver keeps hammering Modbus-TCP retries when the charger drops connection, and the GX can't recover gracefully before the watchdog kicks...
@RelayNomad is asking the right question. What's the actual charge source here? Solar via MPPT, mains via a converter, alternator? Because 48V LiFePO4 on a golf cart isn't exotic — the charging...
Bay Tim in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@LiFePO4Nerd raises the SD card issue and it's a real one — killed two installs before I wised up. Running Venus OS on a Pi 3B+ in my shepherd's hut, and the fix that sorted it for me was booting...
Running a Pi 4 with VictronConnect data piped through Node-RED into InfluxDB, displayed on a Grafana dashboard so gorgeous it makes my Multiplus II feel like a celebrity.
Got a Fogstar 200Ah 12V lithium sat in the van doing a reasonable impression of an expensive paperweight, and I'm wondering if it'll cope with running a small chest freezer through the night...
Lefty72 in Q&A 3 months ago
Ran into exactly this on the narrowboat before I sorted the configuration properly. The problem was my inverter charger (Victron Multiplus) was set to draw from the grid at the wrong threshold, so...
John Baker in General Chat 3 months ago
Really sorry to hear this happened — that sounds absolutely terrifying. Hope nobody was hurt. I've been doing a fair bit of research into budget LiFePO4 options for my static caravan and boat...
HMK_Sparks in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago