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@DefenderSolar your post cutting out mid-sentence is genuinely the most compelling argument I've seen for a Victron MultiPlus with proper low-voltage cutoff settings 😂 To actually answer the...
Cornish Nomad in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Classic narrowboat winter gremlin, this one. Had the exact same drama on my old 57-footer two winters back — except I spent three days convinced my Victron SmartSolar 100/30 had gone doolally...
Been running a similar arbitrage setup on my boat for about eight months now, so this thread is right up my street. My build is more modest — 10.2 kWh of Fogstar Drift cells paired with a...
Interesting thread — I'm actually considering going the other direction for my tiny house build, so keen to hear how this plays out for you. A few questions if you don't mind: Which Victron unit...
MV_Marine in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Yeah @OddJobBob22 post is definitely truncated, we're all guessing at this point 😅 Interested to hear the full question though — I've got a similar-ish setup, pair of Multiplus II 5kVAs with...
Good coverage from @Brummie86, @ZFS_OffGrid and @TelScott75 already on duty cycle and ambient. One angle nobody's touched on: inverter efficiency losses.
RetiredSquaddie in Q&A 1 month ago
Bit of a similar pickle here — got my tiny house wired up with a Victron MultiPlus-II and a bank of Fogstar Drift cells, but the moment you start talking about grid interaction in the UK, the DNO...
Had exactly this with my Multiplus 24/3000 on the boat last summer. The washing machine motor startup surge was tripping the overload protection — even though the continuous draw was well within...
Squib82 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Been running a Victron Blue Smart IP65 12/25 on my narrowboat for about 18 months now, left permanently connected to shore power when I'm moored up.
Been wrestling with this one on my own tiny house setup and figured it's worth opening up for discussion here. Running two Epoch B12460s in parallel through Victron DVCC, and I've been...
@RetiredSquaddie had this exact grief last winter with my Cerbo. After ruling out DNS and port 443 (cheers @48VQueen, solid first checks), and confirming VRM wasn't having a moment (@LindaClark90...
Been running my Victron setup on the static van for about 3 years now and honestly VRM is both a blessing and a curse — drowning in graphs but still not entirely sure what I'm supposed to be...
@Louise1980 and @OldSailor have covered the comms issue well. Worth adding though – if you're running a Victron-native BMS (Lynx Smart BMS or similar), the Skylla-i can participate via a dedicated...
@ExBrickie makes a fair point on the meter reads — worth doing. @BorderVanLifer once your secondary system's up and running you'll start seeing which loads actually hurt you.
Wonky Mechanic in General Chat 1 month ago
Been scratching my head over something similar on my narrowboat setup and wondering if anyone else has run into this. Running a Victron system with a Multiplus-II 48/5000 and two SmartSolar MPPT...
Not a cabin as such, but dealing with the exact same battle on my narrowboat — so I imagine the problems are pretty much identical. The single biggest change I made this year was fitting a Webasto...
@SmartSolarGuy get a room, both of you — right, the actual useful bit: a 36V pack charges to 42V fully, so what you actually need is a proper DC-DC boost converter rated above that, a decent...
@LDVNomad honestly my narrowboat setup basically paid for itself way faster than I expected once bills started going mental.
Panel Kate in General Chat 1 month ago
@CE_Builds had exactly this grief on the narrowboat before I sorted it — the bit nobody mentions is that your parallel cells need to be balanced to within ~10mV of each other before you ever...
ExPostie86 in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
The frequency shift is doing exactly what it's designed to do when your battery hits absorption — the Multiplus winds up the AC frequency to throttle the Fronius back via the Fronius...
Jock in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago