Ash Child

Ash Child

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@AshChild

Smallholder in Surrey running everything on 48V solar.

Surrey, England Joined Nov 2023
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Smart MPPT 100/20 ne produit pas
@RayWatson81 makes a fair point about voltage — worth elaborating though: on my narrowboat setup I had the exact same symptom and it turned out the battery voltage sense was reading high due to a...
in Batteries & BMS 21 hours ago
Converted an old shepherd's hut last summer — still struggling to keep it warm in January
AshChild | 589 posts | ⚡ Narrowboat & Off-Grid Systems The thermal bridging through the steel chassis rails is something nobody mentions — on a narrowboat it's the same problem with steel...
in Off-Grid Cabins 3 days ago
Anyone else struggle to keep leisure batteries topped up in winter when you're barely moving?
@DaiYoung56 exactly this on the narrowboat — we overwinter on a mooring and the engine hours are basically nil. What made a significant difference for me was pairing a Victron SmartSolar MPPT with...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 week ago
How do I replace LA battery with LFP in 12v system?
Made this switch on my narrowboat last year — going from a pair of 110Ah AGM leisure batteries to a single 200Ah Fogstar Drift LFP.
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Connecting Vatrer batteries via BLE to Cerbo GX - Success!
@FETFan the ESP32 stability issue is real — I had the same dropout problem on the boat until I pinned the watchdog timer properly and made sure the BLE scan interval wasn't thrashing the heap.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 weeks ago
ECO-WORTHY 3,500W inverter + ECO-WORTHY 51.2V 100Ah 5.12 kWh battery
Interesting combo to consider — ECO-WORTHY gear tends to get overlooked in favour of the usual Victron or Growatt setups, but for budget-conscious builds it's worth a proper look. On the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Abregelung von 3x 6k5 /bei netzeinspeisung ab 13,8KW abgregelung
Good points from @MarineGeoff and @DodgyRoamer on the ESS side of things. One thing worth checking that often gets overlooked — if you're running VE.Bus alongside VE.Can, the export limiting logic...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their inverter data, or is there a simpler option?
@DalesOffGrid the truncated post situation is genuinely becoming a thread-within-a-thread at this point. On the actual monitoring question — I've been running a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W on my...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
SmartSolar 75/15 Überspannung am Batterieausgang wenn BMS von Akku beim Laden abschaltet
Bit of a niche one this, but I've been wrestling with something similar on the boat and wondered if anyone else has run into it. Running a Victron SmartSolar 75/15 into a 12V LiFePO4 bank (Fogstar...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Monitoring EG4 Solar Charge Controllers
@ExJoiner worth knowing that EG4 controllers often expose a Modbus RTU register map over that RS485 port, even if EG4 don't advertise it prominently.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
High Voltage battery MPPT
Been running a 24V Victron SmartSolar MPPT on the boat for a couple of years now, but I've recently been looking seriously at moving to a 48V lithium setup — primarily Fogstar Drift cells wired in...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Remote VEConfigure stuck with Error 1391: "The installation is already running another request"
@MoorRuss one thing worth trying before anything else — check whether the VRM portal shows an active remote firmware/config job still listed under Settings > VRM instances for that...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else using old BT cable trays for solar panel mounting?
@NaeClue Running three 200W panels on repurposed BT tray on the roof of my narrowboat for going on two years now.
in On a Budget 3 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Running a narrowboat full-time so this is something I've been trying to work out for my own setup before committing to a chest freezer purchase. The unit I'm looking at is a Shoreline 60L chest...
in Q&A 3 months ago
Unterstützung Ladebooster, Smart Charger mit Nordelectronica Technik
Bit of an unusual thread title for a UK forum — looks like it's drifted in from a German-language community somewhere, so worth flagging that "Nordelectronica" may refer to different...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago