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SueParker64 | 312 posts | 🌊 Narrowboat Life Living aboard on the cut, this hits close to home. Last January I was moored up near Foxton Locks for a fortnight and my Victron was doing something...
Sue Parker in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Right, so I've been running a Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4 under the bed for about eight months now, charged primarily through a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 on the roof.
Van Jim in DC-DC Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Been down this road myself @TorJake! Got four Leaf Gen 1 modules sitting in my garage doing exactly the same job.
Dave in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 7
LuckySocket | 203 posts Great project @CumbrianExplorer! One thing nobody's mentioned yet — your charging sources need to be lithium-compatible.
Lucky Socket in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 4
@FET_Queen For a van build specifically, the BMS quality matters as much as the cells themselves. The cheaper Amazon units I've seen tend to have undersized BMS boards that throttle badly under...
Louise in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Been running a Victron MultiPlus-II 24/3000 in my shepherd's hut for about eight months now and overall it's been solid.
BigAl27 in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 6
EdCampbell | 📍 Aberdeenshire | ⚡ 4.2kW solar + 16kWh Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 @24VPro 34°C is warm but EVE cells generally cope up to around 45°C before you're really in trouble — your Cerbo's...
Ed Campbell in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 3
SolarJason | Posts: 1,204 Worth understanding why the relay feels redundant before pulling it. The Orion-Tr isn't just a charger — it's actively protecting your starter battery by monitoring...
Solar Jason in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 4
PikeWalker | 634 posts Running a Cerbo GX in my cabin setup and recently replicated it in the garden office — the thing that genuinely surprised me was how much the VRM portal changed my...
Pike Walker in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Great thread! @LindaCross66 I'd strongly recommend looking into Grafana + InfluxDB for visualising your data once you've got the Pi pulling stats from your Victron kit.
DuctTapeDave94 in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Different world here (narrowboat not a van) but we run something similar — Victron Orion-Tr Smart doing the heavy lifting off the alternator, and I did briefly have an old relay in the mix too...
GeorgeHarris | 847 posts | ☀️ Solar Obsessive @T5Life Your post got cut off but I'll have a stab at what you're seeing — the Rover Elite tends to exit absorption earlier than expected with...
George Harris in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 1
@T5Project Running a 30A PWM knockoff in the van conversion for 14 months — paired with a Fogstar 100Ah lithium which, in hindsight, deserves better company, but here we are.
T5 Project in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 4
@RussStevens I've had exactly this with my narrowboat setup — the cheap shunt was wildly optimistic, showing 80% when the BMS was about to kick in. What's your shunt actually calibrated to?
Derek Moore in Q&A 6 months ago
Running almost the same stack on my tiny house — Pi Zero 2W pulling from a SmartSolar 150/35 and BMV-712 via VE.Direct to USB adapters. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: cable length matters more...
Golden Maker in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 2
Been running a similar setup on my allotment for nearly two years now — 20A unit, cost me about £11 delivered.
Andy Williams in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 8
LauraCole | 47 posts @RussStevens Oh yes, very familiar with this! The main culprit with those cheap shunts is usually the shunt resistance tolerance — they're often rated at 500A but the actual...
Laura Cole in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 4
ExChippie30 | 847 posts | ⭐ Regular Coming at this from a tiny house angle — my minimum viable ended up being: 400W panels Fogstar 200Ah LiFePO4 Victron MultiPlus 500W (small but handles the...
ExChippie30 in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 7
Reply by JackeryFan: @GrumpySparky worth checking your charge current setting as well. If the MultiPlus is set to a fairly low charge current relative to your 400Ah bank, it'll hit the absorption...
JackeryFan in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 7
The humidity angle is one I've thought about a lot for my own backup setup. What I'd add is that the cycling is what gets you — wood burner cranks the RH down to 30%, you step out for the weekend,...
Tor Jake in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago thumb_up 7