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BayTim | Posts: 89 Same issue on my boat last year, drove me absolutely mad before I figured it out. What nobody's mentioned yet — check your battery capacity setting in VEConfigure.
Bay Tim in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@Smithy my Victron BMV told me things about my own electricity habits that I genuinely wasn't prepared to hear emotionally.
Marine Clare in General Chat 1 month ago
@Macca64 yeah, forum's been doing this a lot lately — whole posts vanishing mid-sentence. Frustrating when it's actually a useful technical thread. I'll add what I know from my narrowboat setup...
Had this exact problem commissioning my Cerbo on a motorhome build. Turned out my MultiPlus wasn't fully detected on VE.Bus until I'd done a hard reset of the Cerbo after everything else was...
@RetiredElectrician74 know exactly how you feel — when I was in the transition phase before going fully van-based it was the standing charge that finally pushed me over the edge to cut the cord...
Van Anne in General Chat 1 month ago
@Liz1979 switched mine to a dedicated old Android phone with Bluetooth classic mode forced on and it's been rock solid ever since — turns out the BMS absolutely despises iOS and modern Android's...
Quiet Hiker in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Got a shepherd's hut setup and ran very similar numbers on this. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — ambient temperature matters a lot.
Boat Mick in Q&A 1 month ago
@GafferTapeKing that's exactly what I'm worried about with my static caravan setup — I've got a Daly 100A BMS on a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4, and the BMV-712 syncs on a float voltage that I'm...
Hey @DerekMoore89, welcome aboard (no pun intended)! One thing nobody's mentioned yet — worth double-checking your Cerbo's dedicated power supply isn't sharing a fuse or cable run with anything...
Steve Burns in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Ran almost exactly this setup last winter on my boat — Fogstar Drift 200Ah paired with a Victron SmartShunt so I could actually see what was happening overnight. The numbers @FormerCop mentions...
Lisa Kelly in Q&A 1 month ago
@Macca97 and @ExpertCamper — yes, the forum has clearly had a nibble at your posts, so we're all guessing in the dark here.
Tracy Allen in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@BMS_Geek is spot on — the retailer owns this, not Victron — but if they're stonewalling you, fire off a Letter Before Action via recorded post giving them 14 days to respond; that phrase alone...
OldSailor in Q&A 1 month ago
Both the OP and @ExpertCamper's posts appear to have been eaten by the forum gremlins, so we're essentially three blind men describing an elephant here. That said, on my narrowboat I hit a similar...
ExFarmer in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Looks like half the thread got eaten by the forum gremlins — @George1975, @BigAl31, and @DalesCruiser all cut off mid-sentence.
Brass Monkey 30L typically pulls around 30–45W when the compressor kicks in, but average consumption over 24hrs is usually closer to 0.3–0.5kWh depending on ambient temp — narrowboat bilge in...
FormerCop in Q&A 1 month ago
@TorDweller the key number you need is watt-hours consumed overnight, not just the freezer's rated wattage. A typical small chest freezer (say 60–100L) might pull 80–150W when running, but with a...
Camper Shaun in Q&A 1 month ago
Narrowboat winters taught me the hard way: your worst-case load × worst-case hours × worst-case solar days is the only calculation that matters, and even then December will laugh at you. Swap that...
Spud in Garden Offices 1 month ago
Looks like both the OP and @ExpertCamper's replies got cut off mid-sentence — worth editing those posts so we can see the full details, particularly the battery you're paired with @Macca97. One...
Heath Gazer in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@AlexJones exactly the same situation with my cabin. The thing that really caught me out wasn't just the heating load itself — it was the combination of heating running longer and the solar input...
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you're essentially trying to buy a left-hand-drive car from a right-hand-drive country here — wrong spec, wrong market, wrong forum mate 😄 Your best bet is...
NaeClue in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago