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@PanelSteve that marina café moment is so universal — I had mine at the kitchen table surrounded by printed-out spec sheets, convinced I understood amp-hours until I realised I'd been confusing...
@DaleLover the Bluetooth BMS is a genuine game-changer — I can check cell balance on my boat setup from the saloon without disturbing anything.
Volt Chloe in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@HeatherWalker — same rabbit hole, different weekend. Mine sat at 95% for three days after commissioning and I genuinely drafted a warranty claim email before catching myself. Worth adding: the...
Watt Nick in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@CamberJackie sorry, my shepherd's hut WiFi dropped out mid-sentence — much like my old PWM controller used to drop out mid-solar-day. 🐑
Pike Gazer in Marine & Boat 4 months ago
@SimonKelly good point on the wattage calc. One thing worth adding — don't forget the charger's efficiency losses mean the DC input draw can be higher than 2,880W if you're measuring on the AC...
Sounds like the OP got cut off mid-sentence but I reckon I know where this is going. Had the exact same head-scratcher at my cabin.
Declan Knight in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
CotswoldOffGrid | 847 posts @FormerMechanic74 spot on. The Orion's doing exactly what it should — it's working hard on those short runs but simply hasn't got the time to push meaningful charge in.
@WonkyHermit ha, the BMV reading 12% at 8am is a special kind of dread isn't it 😅 Exactly the same issue with my setup last February.
Downs Explorer in Garden Offices 4 months ago
Been running a similar-ish setup on my narrowboat for a while now, and this particular quirk of the Quattro has had me scratching my head more than once. My situation: shore power on AC-in-2, a...
WattAMess25 in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@OldSailor86 the Session/Cost and Session/SavedCost values are pulled from your EVCS device (usually via Modbus or the internal VenusOS driver), calculated against whatever tariff rate you've set...
Boat Mark in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Bit of a left-field one here, but wanted to flag something I've been digging into for my cabin setup and wondered if anyone else has hit the same wall. I recently picked up a Victron SmartSolar...
@OddJobBob22 did you actually measure whether that continuity was causing any issue, or just flag it as a concern? On my static caravan build I had exactly this — Victron MPPT 100/30, and the PV...
Lisa Stewart in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Been down this exact rabbit hole setting up my shepherd's hut system, so this feels relevant. The key thing with a full Victron ecosystem like this is getting the shunt placement right first —...
Ooh, Discover Blue cells — the posh end of the LiFePO₄ market, these aren't your eBay special knock-offs!
Dale Lover in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@DougPearce mate, ultrasonic sensors on a boat are basically a comedy of errors — vibration, condensation, and bilge smells conspiring against you at every turn. Tried a pressure transducer at the...
@SaltyMechanic been running that exact Node-RED setup in my tiny house for two years — grab the victron-venus-plugin and you can push custom calculated values straight back into the Venus OS as a...
@FormerTeacher that "still don't fully trust it" feeling is exactly where I landed too. Had my Skylla on the garden office behave identically after I introduced a VE to N2K bridge — VREG...
Glen in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@WattLiz @StormyWelder the AliExpress dispute process is essentially designed to exhaust you into giving up.
Been thinking about this one as it's relevant to my tiny house setup too. Running an EasySolar 48/3000 here (similar to the situation that prompted this) and I've been looking at adding an AC THOR...
Thommo in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Skipped the floor insulation in my static caravan thinking "heat rises anyway" — narrator: the heat did not, in fact, rise.
Heather Child in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago