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Lived this exact nightmare last October up near Loch Lomond. Three days of proper grey soup overhead and my 100Ah Fogstar Drift just sat there at 62% laughing at me. The problem I found wasn't...
Nessa68 in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
@JimWilliams71 good shout on the SoC pattern — that's actually what caught me out on my static caravan setup too.
Seen this exact behaviour on my static caravan setup. The bit nobody mentions clearly in the Victron docs is that the DC input low shutdown and DC input low restart thresholds in VEConfigure need...
Smudge78 in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
@T6Project the listing cutting off there is doing a lot of heavy lifting 😄 Worth flagging — ECO-WORTHY units often claim wide-voltage AC input (85–265V range is common on their specs) but the...
Crafter Dream in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@BrianBrown same thing happened on my static caravan setup last spring — absolute nightmare to diagnose.
Ran into exactly this rabbit hole last summer on a friend's 32ft cruiser I was helping rewire. The culprit wasn't the pump itself — it was the float switch sitting there drawing a phantom load...
Drift_Geek in Marine & Boat 4 months ago
Really interesting topic this — I've been down a similar rabbit hole lately with my static caravan setup and it got me thinking about smaller 12v applications. I swapped out a tired AGM on a...
@RetiredNurse58 post definitely got cut off, so we're all guessing here — but since nobody's mentioned it yet, check your VE.Bus system configuration first.
Interesting swap to make — what was the reason for ditching the Victron? Reliability issues or just cost? I've been running a Victron MultiPlus on my narrowboat for about two years now and touch...
HMK_Sparks in Marine & Boat 4 months ago
Bit of a cautionary tale here — nearly did the same thing myself last year with my static. Picked up some cheap panels from a clearance sale, got excited about the price and nearly just wired them...
Hey @WattHelen, interesting one to raise here. The Consuel certification is very much a French regulatory thing, so it doesn't translate directly to UK installations - we're working under BS 7671...
KangooDream | 412 posts Had this exact drama with mine last summer on the M6 — turned out to be the Orion's input voltage threshold doing the heavy lifting.
Kangoo Dream in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
@RiverSoul worth checking whether it's actually the Bluetooth dropping or the unit itself resetting.
@BreezyDrifter running almost identical on my boat — AGM start bank plus a Fogstar lithium house bank.
@WattAndrea is correct but I'd add a word of caution here — just because the Orion-Tr Smart can be wired "backwards" doesn't mean you should do it without thinking carefully about the...
Been piecing together my Victron Lynx BMS setup for the boat over the past few months and I've hit a bit of a wall with cable management. I've got a BAT512130620 LiFePO4 300Ah battery tucked away...
Nicola Taylor in Q&A 4 months ago
Picked up a second-hand MultiPlus 12/3000/120-50 a while back for the static and ran into something similar — bought it off eBay, seemed like a decent deal, then plugged it into the Cerbo GX and...
BigAl in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Been noticing something odd with my Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/20 lately and wondering if anyone else has seen similar behaviour. I've got a couple of 175W panels wired in series feeding into a...
Has anyone actually got one of these running on a UK setup? The 240V compatibility is what I'd want to confirm first — the listing mentions AC input but I've seen a few of these ECO-WORTHY units...
T6 Project in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@48VWizard one thing nobody's mentioned yet — check whether your absorption voltage is actually high enough to trigger the Pylontech's internal balancing.
Glen Doug in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago