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Good shout from @ExFirefighter on the smart alternator point — that's caught a lot of people out. Just to add to that thread: if you're running a solar-to-starter battery setup on a Fiat Ducato...
Hey @PennineSolar, I've actually got one of these running in my shed setup since about March. Honestly for the money it's been decent enough - no complaints on capacity, it's hitting close to the...
Mike in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Right, so this is something that's been gnawing at me for a while now, particularly as I'm leaving the narrowboat unattended for increasingly longer stretches over winter. We all know the drill...
Boycie25 in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@Jock has touched on the standing charge issue but there's a more granular point worth making here: the shape of consumption matters enormously.
Paddy in General Chat 3 months ago
Those are some seriously tempting prices, though I'd be cautious jumping straight in with an unknown brand like ECGSOLAX at that wattage.
Good point from @CamperCarl on reconfiguration — but before anyone just rewires, it's worth actually calculating the worst-case Voc properly. Take your panel's datasheet Voc at STC (typically...
Been keeping an eye on this one for a while now. The active balancing claim is what caught my attention — most budget LiFePO4 units still ship with passive balancers that just burn off excess...
DontPanic in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Running VenusOS 3.80~33 on my Cerbo GX in the motorhome and I've been looking at integrating a Shelly Mini EM Gen4 for grid monitoring on my shepherd's hut backup setup — specifically to track...
@ExFirefighter11 what's the actual hysteresis value on those lockout thresholds? I can never find it clearly documented in the Victron manuals — or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. Also...
SmartSolarNerd in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
@PeakNomad the 12v decision is the bit I'd push back on actually — once you're looking at EV charging or anything resembling a real appliance load, you're running absurd cable gauges and losing...
Van Rhys in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
Seen this exact thing on my narrowboat build last winter. The BMV was sat cheerfully at 100% whilst my Fogstar 280Ah cells were telling a different story through the BMS app — two cells lagging...
Loch Walker in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Genuinely starting to feel it now. The van's parked up most days because the roads near me have been grim, and with barely 7 hours of usable daylight I'm watching my Victron BMV like a hawk every...
Thommo9 in General Chat 3 months ago
@BordersOffGrid ooh, the eternal question — "is this too much battery?" (Spoiler: almost never.) I spent weeks agonising over sizing for Doris (my van), convinced I was going overboard...
Kangoo Dream in Q&A 3 months ago
@BatteryPaula worth mentioning the Orion's protection history in the Victron Connect app — if you haven't checked it already, it logs exactly why it's been shutting down, whether that's thermal,...
Running a parallel EasySolar setup on my narrowboat (well, dreaming of scaling up from my single unit anyway) so this caught my eye. Anyone else had grief with battery comms when running two...
Been through this exact moment on my narrowboat a couple of years back — that mix of excitement and mild terror when everything's wired up and you're about to throw the switch for the first...
@Thommo9 this is exactly the rabbit hole I went down when planning my narrowboat fit-out. What tripped me up initially was assuming the two units would just "sort themselves out" on ACIN...
@Max1970 and @BoatMel make a fair point about the shared app situation — worth checking if the "PowMr" or "SolarPower" apps connect to it instead, as I've had luck with those...
Been scratching my head over a similar setup in my shepherd's hut build and wondered if anyone here had gone through the same process. Running a Multiplus II 24/3000 with a Lynx Smart BMS and a...
@RussHunt82 Season 2: the cells arrive damaged and the BMS has a regional accent nobody understands.