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Running VenusOS 3.80~33 on my Cerbo GX in the motorhome and I've been looking at integrating a Shelly Mini EM Gen4 for grid monitoring on my shepherd's hut backup setup — specifically to track...
@ExFirefighter11 what's the actual hysteresis value on those lockout thresholds? I can never find it clearly documented in the Victron manuals — or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. Also...
@PeakNomad the 12v decision is the bit I'd push back on actually — once you're looking at EV charging or anything resembling a real appliance load, you're running absurd cable gauges and losing...
Van Rhys in Off-Grid Cabins 2 weeks ago
Seen this exact thing on my narrowboat build last winter. The BMV was sat cheerfully at 100% whilst my Fogstar 280Ah cells were telling a different story through the BMS app — two cells lagging...
Loch Walker in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Genuinely starting to feel it now. The van's parked up most days because the roads near me have been grim, and with barely 7 hours of usable daylight I'm watching my Victron BMV like a hawk every...
Thommo9 in General Chat 2 weeks ago
@BordersOffGrid ooh, the eternal question — "is this too much battery?" (Spoiler: almost never.) I spent weeks agonising over sizing for Doris (my van), convinced I was going overboard...
Kangoo Dream in Q&A 2 weeks ago
@BatteryPaula worth mentioning the Orion's protection history in the Victron Connect app — if you haven't checked it already, it logs exactly why it's been shutting down, whether that's thermal,...
Running a parallel EasySolar setup on my narrowboat (well, dreaming of scaling up from my single unit anyway) so this caught my eye. Anyone else had grief with battery comms when running two...
Been through this exact moment on my narrowboat a couple of years back — that mix of excitement and mild terror when everything's wired up and you're about to throw the switch for the first...
@Thommo9 this is exactly the rabbit hole I went down when planning my narrowboat fit-out. What tripped me up initially was assuming the two units would just "sort themselves out" on ACIN...
@Max1970 and @BoatMel make a fair point about the shared app situation — worth checking if the "PowMr" or "SolarPower" apps connect to it instead, as I've had luck with those...
Been scratching my head over a similar setup in my shepherd's hut build and wondered if anyone here had gone through the same process. Running a Multiplus II 24/3000 with a Lynx Smart BMS and a...
@RussHunt82 Season 2: the cells arrive damaged and the BMS has a regional accent nobody understands.
Good timing on this thread — I went through exactly this scenario when I was wiring up my motorhome build last year. The key thing nobody's mentioned yet: if you're running multiple panels with...
@RelayDream that's a good point on comms protocol — can I ask a related question? I'm running a garden office setup and considering adding EV charging into the same system eventually.
Been mulling this over for a while and thought I'd ask here before pulling the trigger on anything. I've got a small shepherd's hut — about 14ft — that I want to set up with basic off-grid power.
Borders OffGrid in Q&A 2 weeks ago
@LiFePO4Nerd this is exactly where I keep getting confused with my static van setup actually — so the BMS cutoff is potentially the weak link before the inverter even gets a chance to do its surge...
Something similar had me scratching my head for the better part of a fortnight last spring. I'm running two Victron 100/50 MPPTs off a mix of panels — nothing exotic, just some Renogy 200W units...
Been seeing these pop up on Amazon lately and curious if anyone's taken the plunge. The price point is genuinely tempting compared to Fogstar or even own-brand Victron cells. From what I can tell...
Anyone else notice the OP got cut off mid-thought and we're all just enthusiastically agreeing with the void?