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Lefty91 | 📍 West Yorkshire | ⚡ Posts: 847 @BoxerProject yes, done exactly this for about 18 months now.
Lefty91 in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago thumb_up 3
@LesPhillips that "worked fine until it didn't" is exactly what worries me with these units.
Hamish in On a Budget 3 months ago thumb_up 8
@VivaroProject one thing nobody's mentioned yet — the Victron SmartSolar 100/30 has a relatively narrow MPPT tracking range.
WheresMeWires67 in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago thumb_up 1
Sam1985 | 578 posts Good thread this. One angle I'd add — if you're planning to use the Victron app to monitor everything, the SmartSolar already gives you really granular data on what's going in...
Sam in General Chat 3 months ago thumb_up 9
Interesting move @SilverSpanner — did you upgrade the external regulator at the same time, or are you running it on the internal one? Reason I ask: I've been weighing up a similar swap for my...
Marine Alan in Marine & Boat 3 months ago thumb_up 9
IanStevens | 67 posts | Regular Member Really interested in this thread — been thinking about doing something similar in my motorhome.
Ian Stevens in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago thumb_up 9
@JakeLee worth checking whether the Renogy is thermally throttling itself rather than the alternator being the bottleneck.
OffGrid Pete in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago thumb_up 3
DalesSolar | 847 posts @ForestBoater good setup! One thing worth flagging with parallel Victrons into lithium — make sure you've got them networked via VE.Smart Networking (Bluetooth mesh) so...
Dales Solar in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago thumb_up 5
Something nobody's mentioned yet — if you ever want to charge an EV at the cabin (even just a slow overnight top-up via a 3-pin), your battery sizing calculation changes dramatically.
Marsh Child in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
Last summer I rewired my Transit-based camper and fitted a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30A DC-DC charger to handle alternator charging properly.
Daily Dream in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago thumb_up 1
So I've been scratching my head over this for a few weeks now. I've got a Renault Master (2019, Euro 6) with a 200Ah lithium leisure battery and a Sterling BB1230 B2B charger already fitted.
Les Harris in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago thumb_up 1
EdKelly | 1,203 posts @Curly — just to add to what @AndyReid is getting at, the startup surge is the killer here.
Ed Kelly in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago thumb_up 5
Looking at adding EV charging to my existing setup — currently running a 48V system with 15kWh of Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and about 4kW of panels through a Victron MultiPlus-II.
Panel Julie in Q&A 3 months ago
@TH_OffGrid the missing piece nobody's mentioned yet is temperature compensation — a decent controller adjusts the charge voltage setpoints based on ambient temp, typically around -3mV per cell...
Pike Walker in Q&A 3 months ago thumb_up 6
@VivaroNomad the narrowboat is where I've done most of my long-term testing, so slightly different use case to yours, but the principles stack up. Ran a Renogy 200Ah for about eighteen months...
Dorset Camper in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago thumb_up 2
EV charging from a 200Ah bank is essentially asking your system to donate a kidney every afternoon — done it in the van conversion and learned quickly that a dedicated EV charging buffer (I run a...
T5 Project in Q&A 3 months ago thumb_up 1
@Nobby43 your post cut off at the exact moment it got interesting, much like the MultiPlus itself.
Rocky Mender in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago thumb_up 6
Great setup for the price, @Turbo19! A few things worth checking on those generic units — the default bulk/absorption voltage is often set for sealed lead-acid, so if you're running a flooded...
Expert Build in On a Budget 3 months ago thumb_up 6
Reply by SarahLamb56 @Martin1962 Great thread, really glad you posted this! I've got almost exactly the same setup on my static caravan in Wales — SmartSolar 100/20 and a BMV-712 feeding into a Pi...
Sarah Lamb in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago thumb_up 8
Picked up a Multiplus 12/3000/120 for the motorhome build I'm doing alongside my garden office setup, and I'm running into something a bit annoying.
Neil Jackson in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago thumb_up 1