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MeadowHermit | 847 posts | ⚡ Off-grid since 2019 @LK_Solar curious timing on this thread — the 12V and 5V outputs working whilst the 230V inverter side is dead usually points to a few specific...
GoldenMechanic | 89 posts | 🔧 Van & Garden Office Builds @GlenSimon @BenJackson — same boat here (well, van).
Had something similar going on with my setup last summer — Cerbo GX kept dropping off sporadically, maybe once every few days.
Frosty Socket in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Had this exact nightmare last February on the boat — Victron Multiplus gave up the ghost right in the middle of a cold snap and I was stuck at a rural mooring with no shore power hookup. What got...
@CrafterSolar marine wiring is its own special kind of misery. Done plenty of 12V work in my van but every time I've poked around a boat setup I'm genuinely baffled how anything survives more than...
Lucky Skipper in Marine & Boat 4 months ago
Had this exact drama with my US3000C in the motorhome last spring. Three weeks idle and it came back looking like a toddler who'd been left unsupervised with a biscuit tin — complete chaos, cells...
EcoFlowMaster in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Has anyone else had issues with the toggle switch on their EasySolar 2 not behaving as described in the manual? I've been setting up my shepherd's hut system and was planning to run the unit in...
Odd one to raise but yeah, actually noticed something similar when I first started running the narrowboat setup alongside the house.
Dodgy Captain in General Chat 4 months ago
Ran into this exact scenario on the narrowboat last spring. Had a single Orion Smart TR feeding a Fogstar 200Ah and the VE.Bus BMS V2 kept throttling current down to almost nothing — Victron...
Jonno in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
Been through something similar with my cabin setup and it's worth sharing here. When I first wired up my 4 × 280Ah cells in parallel (Fogstar Drift units, so slightly different beast), the top...
Watt Helen in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Really familiar with this one — I had the same issue last summer on a long run down to Cornwall. Worth checking whether anything's shifted to partially block the airflow around it, even something...
Jess in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
Had this exact issue on my previous van build. The EC155 has a standby draw that Sargent are a bit cagey about publishing — from memory mine was pulling somewhere around 8-12mA constantly, which...
@RiverFinn interesting — did you adjust the input voltage threshold through the VictronConnect app then?
Nobby in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
Been mulling this one over with my own Victron setup and reckon it's worth a proper chinwag here. Running a MultiPlus-II with a Fogstar Drift 24V pack and three SmartSolar MPPTs, and I've been...
Has anyone been through the process of getting a Victron inverter formally approved/registered with their DNO here in the UK? I've got a static caravan and a separate garden office on my plot, and...
Boxer Project in Q&A 4 months ago
Just finished swapping out an older inverter-charger for a Victron Multiplus-II 48/3000 and wanted to share a few thoughts for anyone doing similar. The integration with the SmartSolar MPPT via...
Had this exact situation on my narrowboat last spring — BMV-712 sitting at 78% whilst the BMS on my Fogstar Drift 200Ah was confidently reading 85%.
OffGrid Terry in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Had this exact headache last winter with my shepherd's hut setup. Short answer: neither completely, but here's how I think about it. The BMV-712 is doing coulomb counting — it's tracking every amp...
Terry Scott in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
@Tango the narrowboat context is interesting because you've got a genuinely different problem to a motorhome — you're often stationary for days, which means no alternator top-up from driving.
Been through something almost identical with my shepherd's hut setup last spring, so this thread caught my eye immediately. I'm running a single Victron SmartSolar 100/50 into a 200Ah Fogstar...