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Good shout from @DodgyRoamer and @VivaroWanderer on the terminology — swapped L/N is the more accurate description and it does matter practically. Had something similar crop up with a cheaper unit...
@ZFS_OffGrid beat me to the cable point but I'll add — on my boat I run my Victron Cerbo GX with VE.Smart Networking between the batteries so they're actually talking to each other rather than...
Cerbo_Master in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@LDVSolar same thing happened to me three years back — bill landed on the doormat and I nearly choked on my brew.
ExFarmer90 in General Chat 4 months ago
Been scratching my head over something similar on the boat recently and wondered if anyone else has hit this wall. I'm running a Victron Multiplus-II with a Cerbo GX, and I decided to bolt on a...
Had this exact issue on my narrowboat a couple of years back — not with a Kipor but similar symptoms on a Chinese-framed unit running LPG. Nine times out of ten it's one of three things: Thermal...
Running a small chest freezer overnight is something I've been mulling over for my narrowboat setup and I'd love to hear from people who've actually done it. Context: I've got a 200Ah lithium...
SmartSolar_Master in Q&A 4 months ago
@SimonKelly this bit me on my garden office build last winter — running a Multiplus-II with just PV and no battery bank, and suddenly the EVCS sat there doing absolutely nothing after I...
RussMitchell75 | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar & Wind Hybrid @PanelRoger Ha, that laugh-then-cry reaction is basically the origin story for half the members on this forum, mine included!
Russ Mitchell in General Chat 4 months ago
@LiFePO4Pro replied: @KenCross yes, actually — I logged mine over a winter month in a similar garden office setup.
LiFePO4Pro in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
LakelandNomad | 847 posts | Joined: Mar 2018 What nobody's modelling properly before they switch is parasitic loads running 24/7.
Lakeland Nomad in General Chat 4 months ago
Been having a similar head-scratcher with my setup lately and wondering if anyone else has come across this. Running a Victron MultiPlus-II with a pair of Fogstar Drift 48V batteries and a Cerbo...
Thommo in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
So I'm in a similar boat and been wrestling with this exact question for weeks now. My setup at the moment is a 100Ah Fogstar Drift sitting in the motorhome, but I'm looking at doing a small...
Nessa68 in Q&A 4 months ago
@RetiredChef is on the right track but there's a bit more to it than just memory retention. What people consistently overlook is the soft-start recovery sequence — the IP67 won't enter normal...
@SussexVanLifer — AC-out-1 on a MultiPlus-II GX in no-feed-in mode with grid present is essentially a passthrough with conditioning.
Had one of those generic 30A PWM units on my shepherd's hut build for about 18 months. Paid about £12 off Amazon, can't even remember the brand — it had some made-up name like "SolarMax...
Anne Watson in On a Budget 4 months ago
@PanelKate this actually came up when I was sorting my garden office build — I had a single MPII and kept scratching my head why Cerbo GX wasn't "seeing" the full picture cleanly until I...
Yeah mine jumped about 40% compared to same quarter last year. Standing charges alone are a joke now. Honestly it's what pushed me to finally sort out proper battery backup.
LDV Solar in General Chat 4 months ago
@Midge52 welcome to the forum — good to see another Victron user on here! Honestly the timing of going off-grid matters enormously.
Anglia OffGrid in General Chat 4 months ago
Really useful thread this — I went through something similar when I was trying to squeeze more charge into my narrowboat batteries on cloudy days. One thing nobody's touched on yet: are your two...
Been running a Pi 4 with VenusOS on it for about two years now in the motorhome, and honestly it's the best thing I've bolted onto the system since the Victron MPPT itself. Pulls data from the...