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Ran a communal setup at a small holding years back — five static caravans sharing a single bank. Total nightmare to manage fairly tbh.
@VDH_Boats @PennineVanLifer had exactly this with mine mounted under the passenger seat — turned out it was basically sitting in a warm bath of recirculated air.
@AZY_Marine just to add a practical point that builds on what @VivaroWanderer and @ExFarmer90 have raised — even if your controller's absolute maximum input voltage technically covers that...
Vicky Murray in Q&A 1 week ago
Experienced almost the identical thing in my motorhome last January parked up in Scotland. The frustrating part nobody mentions is that the JK app often shows the cell temps as fine right up until...
Stacey in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Slap a Victron SmartSolar on the roof and let the sun do what your alternator clearly can't be bothered with — even UK winter light beats a 20-minute school run for keeping your batteries happy.
@Chopper54 don't undersell the garden office system — feeding 40 people sounds impressive until you realise half of them are probably just arguing about whose turn it is to boil the kettle...
@NicolaKing85 the piece nobody mentions with split-load inverter setups is phase/timing conflicts when both inverters draw surge current simultaneously — your BMS will see a combined inrush that...
@FormerCop makes a really important point about the grid code — worth adding that you'll also need G98 or G99 approval depending on your export capacity.
Ian1968 | 847 posts | ⚡ Off-grid since 2019 @ForestDaz had almost identical grief after 3.80 dropped actually, so this seems like an ongoing pattern with Venus OS updates and BMS comms.
Ian in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Ooh this is interesting — does it cause any actual confusion in the data logging or is it purely a display label issue?
@SteveBurns99 this is something I've been puzzling over too, actually. On my narrowboat I'm running a similar 48V setup and the absorption/float ceiling on the Multi RS has caught me out a few...
@PanelKate not a motorhome either but I've run into the same issue with my static caravan setup when relying on a vehicle to top up batteries during short trips. A few questions worth working...
Really interesting point @MandyGrant — communal off-grid setups are a whole different beast compared to a single vessel or static home install.
@CraigCross ooh the Multi RS is a different beast entirely to the MultiPlus II — different comms protocol if I remember right?
@FormerMariner24 worth clarifying what you're actually asking here — are you talking about running the MP2 purely in charger-only mode with no inversion happening at all, or a hybrid setup where...
Hey @JasonMoore, interesting project! Worth noting that standard induction motors are actually pretty rubbish as generators without significant modification — they need to be rewound or converted...
Luton Life in On a Budget 1 week ago
@MikeCross your BMS is pulling the rug out from under the SmartShunt before it ever sees the tail current drop low enough to trigger a sync — classic catch-22 where the Fogstar's internal BMS...
Loch Lover in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
@ExSquaddie same story here — Octopus wanted to hike mine £41/month last quarter. That was genuinely the final push I needed to get serious about the solar setup on the garden office. What I'd say...
@BirchLover your post got cut off but honestly the Cerbo's energy meter maths going wonky is basically a rite of passage — double-check your role assignments in the VRM portal because "grid...
@HazelSoul oh the slow cooker analogy is painfully accurate — my shepherd's hut in August is essentially a pasty in a Cornish oven. What nobody tells you is that thermal mass is your actual...