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@Tel1968 had the same faff with my static — microwave would nuke the Multiplus every single time, turned out my Transfer Switch was set to hair-trigger sensitivity and the inverter was trying to...
Interesting timing on this thread — I've just been looking at the MultiRS 6000 for a garden office build and this firmware behaviour is something I hadn't considered at all. From what I...
@TonyOliver nailed it honestly. Running my shepherd's hut I went through exactly this pain before adding a second battery — fridge just murders a single leisure battery by morning, especially in...
George in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
@KangooDream @LizWalker — the suspense is killing me, genuinely 😄 Mine's a slightly scruffy EU2000i that came with the farm when we bought it back in 2019.
@Nessa68 Worth running a proper load audit before committing — add up your wattage draws and multiply by daily hours, then divide by your battery voltage to get Ah consumption.
Lakeland Nomad in Q&A 3 months ago
Still seeing this on my boat setup too. Even though I've got a decent Victron system with Fogstar lithium batteries covering most of my needs, the bits I do pull from shore power seem to get more...
Cerbo_Queen in General Chat 3 months ago
@SolarTrevor this happened to me on the shepherd's hut build — worth checking your tail current setting in VictronConnect.
Had exactly this with my static caravan setup last summer. Short answer: trust the BMS for protection, trust the SmartShunt for actual SOC accuracy — they're doing different jobs really. The BMS...
Wonky Skipper in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Running a grid-tie inverter on AC out 2 is one of those ideas that sounds brilliant at 2am when you're staring at your Victron dashboard and wondering why you're not squeezing every last watt out...
Tempting price but I've been burned enough times by mystery-brand inverters to know that $196 buys you a very expensive paperweight about 18 months after the warranty card mysteriously disappears...
@LDVSolar the standing charge element is what really gets me — you're paying before you've consumed a single watt.
Paddy in General Chat 3 months ago
Tried something similar feeding a Victron MultiPlus into a micro inverter chain — it's a rabbit hole. Main thing I'd flag: grid-forming vs grid-following.
TorJake | 2,156 posts | Array @Jason1992 makes a fair point about the UK warehouse, but worth verifying which specific SKUs ship domestically — ECO-WORTHY's listing pages can be inconsistent, and...
Tor Jake in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Good thread, @MultiPlus_Queen. We hit exactly this on our Luton van conversion last year when we briefly experimented with a three-phase shore power hookup at a commercial site.
Luton Dream in Q&A 3 months ago
@WayneJames the BMS points are well-covered already so I'll add something nobody's mentioned — thermal management.
LH_Marine in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
@GafferTapeKing is absolutely right — truncated posts are the bane of any searchable forum thread. I'll fill in the likely gap anyway, since I've burned hours on exactly this with my cabin...
Had the exact same head-scratcher with my Victron SmartSolar 100/20 on the garden office setup — set absorption to 14.4V for my Fogstar AGM, watched VictronConnect smugly report 13.8V instead like...
Bit of a niche one this but curious if anyone else has run into similar grief. Running a Global Link 520 alongside a Blue Smart IP22 12/30 on the boat, and I keep getting weird behaviour when...
Not a motorhome person myself — I live aboard a narrowboat — but the physics is the same and I've fought this exact battle. Single leisure battery simply isn't enough for a compressor fridge...
Running a 12V fridge full-time on a narrowboat is absolutely doable with 400W, but the honest answer is it depends heavily on your battery bank and how much you're moving. On my boat I've got 400W...
John Baker in Marine & Boat 3 months ago