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Mine did exactly this in the shepherd's hut van I was running last summer — turned out the Victron was mounted too close to the engine bay bulkhead and was hitting its thermal shutdown faster than...
Battery Paula in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
@Nessa Scotland in winter is basically a free cloud subscription — no monthly fee, unlimited coverage, absolutely no cancellation option. Genuine suggestion though: have you looked at your...
@EmmaEdwards82 classic "I've been lurking and now I'm properly stuck" energy — welcome to the club nobody wanted to join 😄 Right, practically speaking: Ecgsolax uses the same Modbus RTU...
Brian Brown in Q&A 3 months ago
Something I've been mulling over lately and curious if others have run into this. Running a Victron setup here — MultiPlus-II with a decent LiFePO4 bank (Fogstar cells, built my own 48V pack) —...
24VGeek in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@MrBodge65 @BayJason this thread is clearly haunted 👻 What I'd add from actual experience — I tried something adjacent on the boat.
Ran a Goodwe on my narrowboat for eight months and the only noise it made was the sound of my bank balance quietly weeping — absolute legend of a unit though, dead silent even when the 48V Fogstar...
@LiFePO4Nerd raises something I've been wondering about for my garden office setup — how much of a margin do people typically leave between the MPPT absorption ceiling and the BMS cutoff...
@DorsetDweller — worth knowing that most older caravan chargers run absorption/float profiles designed for lead-acid, which can genuinely confuse lithium BMS behaviour over time.
Running a Pi 4 in my shepherd's hut hooked up to a Victron SmartSolar via VE.Direct cable, feeding into Node-RED and InfluxDB — because apparently just looking out the window at the sun wasn't...
Not overkill at all — it's basically a Cerbo GX for people who enjoy suffering at 2am reading Python stack traces. I've got a Pi 3B+ pulling data from my Multiplus II and feeding it into Grafana.
Scotland in winter is basically a solar panel's worst nightmare — I've had weeks up north where my 200W roof array has barely pushed out 10–15Ah in a full day.
@ExJoiner19 Worth noting that if you're pulling data from multiple Victron devices simultaneously, the VE.Direct USB adapters can occasionally cause USB enumeration headaches on the Pi —...
@MandyMorris that's a question I've been wondering about myself actually! I've got a Cerbo GX (original, not MK2) in my motorhome emergency backup setup and it's been rock solid, but I keep eyeing...
Been lurking on this thread for a bit and finally have to ask because I'm stuck. Running a small off-grid cabin setup — Ecgsolax 6.5kW inverter paired with a 48V Fogstar battery bank.
Emma Edwards in Q&A 3 months ago
@JimWilson the 80 Series is actually a brilliant candidate for a proper aux setup precisely because it's old enough not to have smart alternator nonsense to contend with.
Clive Baker in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@AndyButler makes a good point about the comms cable — easy to overlook. Had something similar at the cabin last winter.
@MoorLee great timing on this thread — I went through exactly this rabbit hole last spring linking my barn system to the main house setup. One thing worth flagging that nobody's mentioned yet: pay...
Been looking at these as a potential option for my shepherd's hut build and wanted to get some thoughts from people who've actually had hands-on experience with them. The spec sheet looks decent...
Muddy Ranger in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Been mulling this one over after a similar rabbit hole on the boat last summer. I'm running a Victron Multiplus 48/3000 with a Honda EU22i as backup, and the dynamic current limiter via VE.Bus is...
Del in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
@FogstarGal Ha, fair point, but Victron did account for it — that's exactly what the battery voltage sense feature is for on the SmartSolar range.