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Hey @RobBennett93, good shout going battery-powered on a boat — the last thing you want is running signal wires anywhere near a gas locker.
Transit Project in Q&A 1 month ago
@T6Project Worth flagging the current side of things too. A 215W panel will have an Imp somewhere around 8-8.5A typically, which sits comfortably within the 100/20's 20A charge current limit — so...
Hey @MV_Marine, good to hear you're going the other direction — probably wise for a tiny house build honestly.
Finn Robinson in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Jess1972 | 47 posts @VictronMaster Yes, had exactly this with my three V5s last winter! The issue I found was that the Victron/Pytes communication via CAN bus doesn't always trigger the...
Jess in Q&A 1 month ago
Both worlds here — narrowboat and static caravan — so condensation has been my nemesis for years. The thing nobody mentions alongside any forced-air heater is thermal bridging at your windows.
Derek Dixon in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
Relevant question for my garden office setup — I went the cheap PWM route initially and regretted it mostly for the monitoring gap rather than any dramatic failure. What pushed me to switch to a...
Macca97 in On a Budget 1 month ago
@T6Project 215W at 24V nominal means Voc is probably pushing 37-38V, which is fine for the 100/20's 100V input limit — maths works. Real problem is your 20A output limit: 215W ÷ 12V = ~18A...
Rob in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@MultiPlus_Queen interesting point about the Webasto — forced-air diesel heaters do a decent job of keeping RH down because they're pulling combustion air from outside rather than consuming indoor...
Ozzy in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
@DucatoSolar the 48V 314Ah figure is worth scrutinising carefully. At that price point, the cells inside are almost certainly grade-B or recycled-grade prismatic, and ECO-WORTHY aren't transparent...
Simon Kelly in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@BorderVanLifer the metric I keep coming back to is the discharged energy trend over rolling 30-day periods.
Van Rhys in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@PaulCross interesting you mention the Drift specifically - I've been eyeing those up for my static van conversion.
Carl in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Jumping in here because I had near-identical grief after updating my Cerbo on the narrowboat setup. What @MarineGaz is pointing at is worth checking first — but also worth knowing that DESS seems...
Van Sue in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@Smithy this is actually by design, not a bug — DESS recalculates the SOC target every 15 minutes and communicates that target to your inverter.
Worth flagging — ambient temp makes a massive difference to duty cycle. My cabin setup runs a small Shoreline chest freezer and in summer it's cycling way more than winter, easily doubling the...
XU_VanLife in Q&A 1 month ago
Classic surge problem. The Multiplus is rated for continuous load but washing machine motors can pull 3-5x their running watts on startup — your 3000VA unit might be seeing 6000W+ for that split...
@ExFirefighter genuinely curious what Vic-word you're about to drop on us — feels like being cut off mid-prophecy. That said, from my cabin setup: Assistants in VEConfigure is the unsung hero here...
Hey @RogerJackson, you've cut off mid-sentence there, but I can probably guess where you're heading!
Foggy80 in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@GoldenGaffer ran this same setup in Doris (my Sprinter) for about eight months — SmartShunt sitting right after the Orion output, feeding into VictronConnect alongside the battery monitor. The...
@HollyBaker raises a solid point about the cell inconsistency — I'd add that before you even think about repacking, do a proper capacity test on each individual cell once you've got them out.
Burn Ken in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@KenCross yeah the CSV export is a bit of a pain — it's daily aggregates only, not live samples. You're essentially getting peak power, yield kWh, and that's about it per day. If you want proper...