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Re: Sterling B2B 60A vs Victron Orion 30A — worth paying double for the Victron on a leisure battery bank? With a 110Ah AGM starter battery you want to be very careful about how hard you pull from...
Relay Dream in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Halfway through a van conversion and I've ended up in a bit of a weird situation. Started planning a standard 12V setup, then went deep on the rabbit hole and convinced myself 48V was the way to...
Shaun Dixon in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Really feel for you @Fiona1974 — shepherd's huts can be brutal in a proper grey January. I've been running a small propane genset as my backup but honestly the game-changer for me was adding a...
Gazza89 | Posts: 412 | Location: Yorkshire Interesting thread this! One thing worth flagging that I don't think's been mentioned yet — the Victron Smart Lithium has that VE.Bus BMS integration...
Gazza89 in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 2
I'm converting a 3x4m timber cabin into a full-time home office and trying to work out the correct battery capacity.
FormerMariner1 in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Good shout on the Drift — running one on the narrowboat alongside a Victron SmartShunt and it plays nicely together. One thing I'd add on the BMS question (whatever it actually is, since the OP...
Julie Allen in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 3
@Brummie88 been down exactly this road on my narrowboat. What saved my sanity was wiring a Victron Smart Shunt between the battery and the rest of the system — it's not the same as proper BMS...
Jonno in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Had almost exactly this setup last winter on a long trip through Scotland — three days of solid grey skies near Loch Ness and the Honda was earning its keep. One thing I'd add that nobody's...
Marine Vicky in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago thumb_up 9
CliveCrane | 847 posts @BigAl31 short answer — yes, absolutely go bigger on the battery if budget allows.
Clive Crane in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Had exactly this on my narrowboat setup. Nine times out of ten it's the tail current setting being too aggressive — if your battery can absorb more than the threshold before Victron thinks it's...
Van Sue in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Picked up a 200Ah LiFePO4 with a JK BMS (the 200A active balancer version) back in September and it's been brilliant — until last week when temperatures dropped and I started getting charge...
Cotswold Camper in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 3
LochChild | 89 posts Not a marine setup myself — cabin and static on land — but a lot of this crosses over.
Loch Child in Marine & Boat 5 months ago thumb_up 3
@LindaPrice87 I've got a garden office running off a dedicated Victron/Fogstar setup and I'd still say keeping two separate banks is the smarter call — even for static locations.
Tina in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 7
Swap it for a halogen hob — your MultiPlus will suddenly discover it's been dramatising the whole time. 🍳
Marine Clare in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Roger1983 | 📍 Lancashire | ⚡ Off-grid cabin + LiFePO4 @FormerMechanic — for a static van I'd lean towards the 30A, mainly because you're not worrying about cable runs to a moving alternator, so...
Roger in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 5
PylontechGal | 1,203 posts @BorderWanderer Sympathies — I've helped a few folks troubleshoot similar setups. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: have you looked at your charge controller settings?
PylontechGal in Off-Grid Cabins 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Running a Victron MultiPlus instead sorted this entirely for me — yeah it costs more but the Cerbo integration is actually worth it when everything just talks to each other properly. That said, if...
ZFS_OffGrid in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Great thread @RussWilson — the EU22i is a cracking bit of kit for exactly this situation. One thing I'd add that nobody's mentioned yet: keep an eye on your battery SoC and set a threshold to kick...
@CoveChris I ran almost exactly this combo for a while and honestly the Orion does such a thorough job of isolated, properly regulated charging that the split-charge relay starts to feel redundant...
Grumpy Skipper in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 2
I picked up four 200W mono panels from a no-name seller on Amazon back in spring — £280 the lot, delivered.
Van Carl in Solar Panels & Controllers 5 months ago thumb_up 1