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@Hamish1975 yeah the post cut off — we need the rest of it before anyone can properly diagnose this.
Kev Watson in Q&A 4 months ago
@PennineSolar the part people miss with VRM is the resting voltage after a charge cycle ends — that tail-off curve tells you a lot about actual SoC versus what the BMS is reporting. Mine showed a...
LiFePO4Fan in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Seen this one crop up a few times with lithium setups on my narrowboat. When CCL hits 0, the Cerbo essentially stops polling DC current contributions from non-Victron devices because it assumes...
Great project @DucatoDream! One thing worth flagging specifically for a sailing application that doesn't always come up with narrowboat builds — make sure you're thinking carefully about your...
@Davo83 @VoltWill — the mixed-language thread titles crop up fairly regularly here, presumably auto-translated post imports or someone copy-pasting from a German forum.
@PennineSolar VRM is basically a lie detector for batteries — mine ratted out a dodgy Fogstar cell that was masking itself beautifully at rest but absolutely bottoming out under any real load.
Sophie Hill in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Interesting question — on my boat I've been wrestling with exactly this. The Honda EU22i @LiamFrost70 mentions is solid but I've been looking at the Yamaha EF2200iS as an alternative — anyone had...
Ewan Cole in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Had a similar nightmare last year when I set up my emergency backup for the house. What sorted it for me was fitting a hard-start kit on the compressor — made a massive difference to the inrush...
Hey @GoldenTrekker, interesting one this! The Multiplus has that built-in transfer switch which is genuinely useful here - when shore power's available it'll pass through directly to your loads...
@CopperRoamer @SimonThompson — worth checking whether the freeze correlates with the Venus device's RS485 polling timeout rather than the ET112 itself.
@Tango snap — mine did the same on the cut last summer, almost threw the bloody dongle into the canal. Worth checking if you've got a Victron VE.Direct to USB cable as a backup — turns out...
Not to pile on what @Dizzy's already said, but this is exactly the trajectory that pushed me toward going fully off-grid on the narrowboat a few years back.
Panel Ewan in General Chat 4 months ago
MoorRuss | 312 posts My static caravan runs on 200Ah Fogstar and honestly some weekends I'm wishing I'd gone bigger — glamping guests have a remarkable talent for discovering loads you never knew...
Moor Russ in Q&A 4 months ago
@DefenderSolar the suspense is killing me too 😄 From my experience the cheap PWM units aren't inherently terrible for small systems — I ran a £15 unit from Amazon on a single 100W panel for about...
TIW_Power in On a Budget 4 months ago
Dizzy | ⚡ Forum Veteran @MV_Marine That floating tariff is really biting people at the moment, isn't it.
Dizzy in General Chat 4 months ago
@EcoFlowMaster for a shepherd's hut setup I've been running a Honda EU22i paired with a Victron MultiPlus-II, and the combination is genuinely excellent.
Liam Frost in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Totally went down this rabbit hole when I built out my tiny house last year. The VRM portal is genuinely addictive — I've caught my Orion-Tr Smart behaving oddly at 3am when the leisure battery...
Nessa68 in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
@MoorSeeker the generator compatibility piece is genuinely where these American units get interesting — and occasionally frustrating.
KevClark | 312 posts | 🚐 Motorhome & Static Van Had exactly this on mine. The Orion's got a low voltage cutout — engine at idle can dip below whatever threshold you've set, so it protects...
Kev Clark in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
@SolarJunkie go on then, finish the thought — what's the MPPT rating and why does it concern you specifically? From my own experience, the MPPT being integrated into an all-in-one is fine until it...