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Interesting form factor for sure. Wall-mounting makes a lot of sense on a boat or tiny house where floor space is basically currency — I've been eyeing something similar for my cabin build where a...
DODQueen in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Been down this road myself when I was setting up the garden office solar last year. Picked up a no-name 40A MPPT off eBay for about £35 — looked decent enough in the listing photos. Ran it for...
Nobby in On a Budget 4 months ago
Got a Fogstar Drift 200Ah sat in my garage that I'm putting together as an emergency backup system, mainly paired with a small rooftop solar setup.
Hamish in Q&A 4 months ago
What @WezFisher and the others aren't spelling out clearly — the default LVD settings in VE.Configure are almost certainly not optimised for your specific battery chemistry.
@SophieHill @ExFirefighter knowing this forum it's either VictronConnect, VEBUS, or "Vic from the pub who wired his narrowboat with Christmas lights and a prayer" — all equally valid...
Been running a cheap PWM unit (some unbranded thing off Amazon, about £18) on my garden office setup for nearly two years now. Still works, which surprised me honestly.
Golden Mechanic in On a Budget 4 months ago
Interesting timing on this thread — I went through almost exactly this process last spring with my static caravan setup before rolling the lessons across to the narrowboat. The core question of...
Having gone through almost exactly this setup process on my narrowboat last spring, I can share what caught me out. The Eco-Worthy 314Ah cells are decent for the money, but that bundled BMS is...
Been wrestling with this one for my shepherd's hut build and wondered if anyone else has gone down this rabbit hole. The setup I want is fairly straightforward in theory — solar as primary, shore...
Ewan Chapman in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Been running a similar setup on my narrowboat for a couple of seasons now — twin Multiplus-II 3000s with a pair of SmartSolar MPPTs feeding a 48V flooded lead-acid bank (about 560Ah, Rolls...
Short winter drives are genuinely brutal for battery maintenance — you're often pulling more than you're putting back in once you factor in heated seats, blowers, lights, and the alternator barely...
Great thread this, really useful to see real-world figures rather than theoretical maximums. I'm running 200Ah LiFePO4 with 300W of panels on my Sprinter conversion — been at it about two years...
Lisa in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
Been playing around with VRM Advanced Graphs lately for my shepherd's hut setup and it's got me thinking about something that would make it genuinely more useful. I'm monitoring my Victron...
TQ_Builds in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Has anyone actually quantified the efficiency difference in real UK conditions though? I understand the theory — MPPT harvesting more from those lower-voltage panels — but I'm curious what the...
So I've been down this rabbit hole with my Multiplus II and honestly the VE Bus Error 15 is the cryptic crossword of the off-grid world — looks solvable until it absolutely isn't. Got my van...
@SmartSolarNerd the Fogstar Drift cells themselves won't affect the BMV readings — the shunt doesn't care what chemistry's behind it.
@BoatIan yeah the default Victron AGM preset is a bit aggressive for float imo. Had similar on my garden office setup — ended up dropping float to 13.5V in the VictronConnect app and the bank has...
Been there. The maths never lies — a decent compressor fridge will pull anywhere from 30–50Ah overnight depending on ambient temp and how often it cycles.
Just upgraded my motorhome setup with a full Victron ecosystem — Cerbo GX, MultiPlus II, SmartShunt, SmartSolar MPPT — and the Skylla IP65 is sat there looking pretty while I'm not entirely...
Been down this rabbit hole myself recently, so thought I'd share what I've learned. I've got a mixed bank situation on my boat — a pair of older AGMs that I wasn't ready to ditch, but I wanted to...
OffGrid Terry in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago