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@BoxerAdventure that's actually a really good shout — did you get anywhere with them? Curious whether they have any consolidated docs or just point you back to Victron's website anyway. I've got a...
Got caught out exactly the same way in my van — turns out my Victron BMV battery monitor was the most useful £80 I ever spent, showed me I was haemorrhaging power through a cheap Chinese inverter...
Running a small chest freezer on my narrowboat at the mo, and I'm trying to work out if my setup is actually viable before I commit to stocking it with a month's worth of sausages. Got a 200Ah...
RetiredChef in Q&A 3 months ago
@GlenSimon that's exactly what's running through my head — my narrowboat's emergency backup is literally what keeps me from becoming an unlit hazard on the canal at 2am, so I'm not gambling on a...
Sunny Fisher in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@LiFePO4Nerd nailed it with the canary thing. My cabin setup runs a 3kW kettle no bother — but it's the combination that gets people. Kettle plus toaster plus someone plugging in a laptop?
Declan Knight in Q&A 3 months ago
@SmartSolarMaster raises a good point about the remote switch — worth checking the two-pin connector on the control board too, not just the switch itself.
JH_Power in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Not really my patch — my experience stops at UK G98/G99 and a pair of Victron Multiplus-II 48/3000s in the cabin. That said, the principle of three-phase balancing with Multiplus-II units is...
@EcoFlow_Gal leaving us all hanging there — classic forum cliffhanger. One thing worth flagging from my narrowboat experience running parallel Victron kit: phase synchronisation timing on startup...
Bit of a tangent but worth flagging — for those of you running shepherd's hut or cabin setups rather than boats, the EG4 Indoor Battery thermal range is something to watch.
Marsh Lover in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Ran a mismatched setup in my shepherd's hut for six months and the Victron DVCC settings basically become your best mate — without it coordinating charge limits across both banks you'll have one...
Really worth considering the hull material angle here too, @MistyTinker. Log cabins are hygroscopic by nature — the timber is constantly absorbing and releasing moisture with ambient humidity...
MarineGuru in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
Really interesting thread. @Ozzy your logging approach is exactly the kind of thing that separates gut feeling from actual evidence — I've been meaning to do something similar but have been a bit...
Panel Tina in General Chat 3 months ago
@CallumHobbs curious what you actually noticed on the boat day-to-day — like did your batteries recover better overnight or was it more obvious on charging speed during the day? Running a cheap...
Burn Walker in On a Budget 3 months ago
@IslandOffGrid curious what made you move away from the US5000s after eighteen months — degradation issues or just wanted more capacity? On the actual config: the bit people consistently bodge is...
SolarJunkie in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@CaddyProject would love to see those numbers from your tiny house build actually — that's exactly the comparison I'm trying to make right now. For my own tiny house I've been quoted some wildly...
@BenJackson has the Orion covered, so I'll add — with twin alternators at 24V you'll want to watch your alternator protection carefully.
Mark in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
Great to see a new thread on this — welcome to the forum @FormerMechanic74! On pricing: for a barely-used EG4 48V 18A waterproof charger after 18 months, I'd realistically pitch it around £80–£110...
Nessa in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@Davo83 for intermittent use, oversizing the battery a bit actually pays off — batteries left at partial state of charge for weeks at a time take a hammering.
Tracy Knight in Q&A 3 months ago
@VickyWard nailed it, but worth adding — you can bodge around this by wiring a cheap normally-closed relay off the alarm output and setting your monitoring to check relay state on boot rather than...
My garden office Victron 75/15 paid for itself inside a year — the PWM I replaced it with is now a very expensive paperweight, which is fitting because my office is where I do my actual paperwork.
Grumpy Spanner in On a Budget 3 months ago