Alan Jones

@AshDweller the Cerbo sees the Orion XS over VE.Direct and it's glorious — like finally introducing two mates who were always meant to get along but nobody bothered.

Tempted by this, but my cabin setup is already a graveyard of "EV-grade A" promises that turned out to be more "EV-grade... eventually... maybe" in practice.

@SuffolkExplorer mate, the classic "Cerbo playing dumb" — nine times out of ten it's VE.Direct cables swapped round or the VE.Bus termination resistor missing, which Victron buries in...

Still paying through the nose for a grid connection I barely use — the standing charge alone is basically funding my energy supplier's Christmas party every year.

Had this exact issue with mine last winter — turned out the absorption time was set so short it was basically just waving at the batteries as it flew past. Worth checking a few things in...

Fitted a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 on the cabin boat last spring and the alternator's been throwing a wobbly ever since — apparently lithium's near-zero internal resistance just hammers the...

Installed a Cerbo GX on my little off-grid cabin setup last autumn — 400W of Renogy panels, two Fogstar 100Ah LiFePO4 batteries, and a Multiplus 12/3000.