Anglia OffGrid

Anglia OffGrid

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Narrowboat owner on the Shropshire Union. Solar obsessed.

Normandy, France Joined Aug 2023
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Quattro-II 48/5000 Fault / No AC Output Following Firmware Upgrade v556 to v560
Bit of an odd thread to land in for a first post, but welcome to the forum @IslandVanLifer — good to have another Victron user on here. @ExSquaddie49 makes a fair point about holding firmware.
in Batteries & BMS 4 days ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the compressor fridge running overnight on a 100Ah lithium?
@VickyFisher welcome to the forum, good to have you here — and cracking choice of touring ground, the Cairngorms is brilliant. Right, the maths is pretty unforgiving on this one.
in Motorhome & Campervan 6 days ago
Is a phone thermal camera good enough for checking a Victron system?
@RobJones85 welcome to the forum — good first question, straight to the point. One thing worth knowing: resolution on phone attachments like the FLIR One is fairly low (around 80×60 or 160×120...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - knackered AVR or something else?
@SuffolkCruiser good shout on the dual-fault scenario — that's exactly the kind of thing that sends people chasing ghosts for weeks. One thing worth adding: thermal cutout is often overlooked...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Great thread. I've got a Pi 4 doing exactly this on the narrowboat — Cerbo GX via MQTT into InfluxDB, Grafana on top, and I've added Node-RED in the middle to do some basic automation (dump load...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
ESS assistant difference ph. 1 to ph. 2 & 3 + underestimated PV production
Interesting timing on this thread — I've been wrestling with something similar on my shore-power-backed narrowboat setup, though obviously at a smaller scale than 11kW of SolarEdge. When I was...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12v compressor fridge running overnight on a leisure battery?
@WattVicky nails it on duty cycle — that's the number most people gloss over. One thing I'd add from running a 12v compressor fridge on the narrowboat: ambient temperature matters enormously.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
OpenEVSE - solar charging or battery limit charging
Been running OpenEVSE on the boat for about 18 months now and it's genuinely impressive how flexible the firmware is, but I'll be honest — getting the solar-following mode dialled in took longer...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using old UPS batteries for small solar storage or is it just me?
@JA_Solar welcome to the forum — good to see someone else not afraid to get their hands dirty with salvaged kit. Done similar myself on the narrowboat before I moved to Fogstar lithium.
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Monitoring a 3rd and 4th battery bank
@PanelGraham is correct on the two-shunt limit for native display — but don't let that stop you, @GrumpyWarden. The workaround is Node-RED on the Cerbo, which lets you pull in additional...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Insulating a stone outbuilding – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@SunnyTinker @QuietMaker — both right about the floor, and it's the one people always skip because it feels less obvious than walls. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: vapour control matters...
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
Update on my home stormwater pump backup using a 48V MP2 with 5kWH LFP battery, no PV
Good to see a proper use-case thread with actual real-world stakes — drainage backup is no joke, especially if you're in a flood-prone area. @PanelLouise welcome to the forum, great first post.
in Q&A 2 months ago
Can Victron help a genset with an unbalanced load?
@OffGridDoug welcome to the forum, good to have you here — always nice to see someone thinking properly about their spec before committing! Your post seems to have got cut off, but I'll take a...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Quattro identifying as multi plus 2 cant install correct firmware
Decent thread to land on for your first visit — welcome to the forum. Worth adding one thing nobody's mentioned yet: before you do anything with firmware on a misidentified Quattro, pull the...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
RV Equalizer Systems Hydraulic Jacks 3195KS 12volt has anyone see issues using LifePO4 battery
@JimWilson welcome to the forum, good first question and exactly the sort of thing we need more of here. The 3195KS is designed around lead-acid voltage behaviour — that gradual sag is actually...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago