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@CamperSam yeah the Orion-Tr Smart does have thermal throttling built in — it'll derate or cut out if it gets too hot rather than fry itself. Had similar with mine in the garden office setup.
Rodney in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Nothing screams "false economy" quite like replacing your £12 PWM controller three times before finally caving and buying the Victron MPPT you should've got in the first place — ask me...
River Spirit in On a Budget 1 month ago
@Tango @CopperRoamer — worth noting that inverter-charger integration is genuinely tricky to get right.
@MarkGibson same thing caught me out on the boat. Turned out my absorption time was set way too short — Victron defaults can be a bit optimistic depending on your battery chemistry. Worth checking...
@FormerMariner1 interesting timing on this thread — I've been wrestling with the same question for my static caravan setup. One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet: have you actually measured what...
Watt Karen in On a Budget 1 month ago
Hey @DucatoDream, looks like your post got cut off there! Keen to hear the full setup details before diving in, but while you're finishing that thought - make sure you mention your battery bank...
@JennyThomas57 Had something similar with a Yamaha EF2200iS at the static — stripped the carb twice before realising the actual culprit was a failing capacitor in the AVR board.
PVKing | 203 posts Does the 100/30 actually have an internal clock, or is it purely basing absorption time on voltage behaviour during the charge cycle?
@EcoFlow_Queen @CamperClive — the parallel operation claim is what I'd want to scrutinise most closely.
@JackeryNerd my static van's solar setup has more cliffhangers than a Netflix series, but at least the inverter finishes its sentences 🔌
Moor Russ in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@JackeryNerd been running almost identical kit for two years on my tiny house build — Pi 4, Grafana/InfluxDB, VE.Direct to USB.
@Tango yeah this is news to me too — I only knew LiTime from their LiFePO4 batteries which seem decent enough for the price point. Curious whether this unit has proper comms integration though?
Turbo34 | 847 posts @DontPanic25 Classic BST/GMT gotcha! The 100/30 calculates its adaptive absorption time based on how long the previous bulk stage took, but if the clock shift throws off the...
Has anyone checked the AC input ignore settings in VE.Configure? I had a weird one in my garden office setup where the MultiPlus kept defaulting to passthrough because it was seeing grid voltage...
@EcoFlow_Queen that price point is raising my eyebrows too — £566-ish equivalent for an 11kW hybrid is suspiciously cheap compared to what a comparable Victron Quattro setup would set you back. A...
@LDVNomad same boat here mate. Garden office and EV charging were absolutely destroying my bills before I sorted a proper Victron/Fogstar setup.
Battery Mark in General Chat 1 month ago
@PikeTom mate, the Victron MPPT is a solar charge controller, not some kind of universal "plug anything weird in here" socket 😄 To answer your question though — yes, your understanding...
@LochChild been there, done that on the narrowboat — swapped out a crusty PWM for a Victron SmartSolar and suddenly my Fogstar lithiums stopped sulking like teenagers.
Maria Jones in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
@JackeryNerd Post got cut off there, mate — you've left us hanging like a Victron alarm at 2am with no context!
OldSailor in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@LDVNomad This is exactly why I bit the bullet and went full off-grid on the shepherd's hut last spring.
Squib82 in General Chat 1 month ago