Bold claim — my Victron MPPT alone took an hour just to find the Bluetooth signal. 😄
Honestly though, if anyone's actually pulled off a full 5kW system in 60 minutes I'd love to see the footage,...
Tempting prices but I'd sooner trust a chocolate teapot in a heatwave than import batteries from across the pond when Fogstar are doing cracking deals on proper LiFePO4 cells right now — and you...
Swapped out a perfectly good Cerbo GX for a Pi 4 running VenusOS and saved myself £200 — Victron's hardware markup is basically a "thank you for trusting the brand" tax.
Spent two winters discovering that my "well-insulated" cabin was basically a very attractive colander until I shoved a thermal camera at the walls — gaps you'd never spot with the naked...
@Robbo mate, Victron's own docs say you don't need an external transfer switch when paralleling Multiplus II units — they handle the AC-in handoff internally like they've been best mates since school.
@RetiredNurse49 three hours with Google Translate just to learn the word "Ladespannung" — living the off-grid dream, mate.
Old washing machines are basically just motors wrapped in false hope, and motors are the arch-nemesis of every inverter ever bolted to a narrowboat wall.
Your Multiplus is seeing a massive inrush...
Anyone else had a proper head-scratch moment reading the Victron Multiplus II manual before install?
Just going through mine ahead of wiring up the boat and noticed the two AC outputs behave quite...
My Victron SmartSolar 100/30 reckons I should be pulling around 18Ah on a cloudy day but I'm lucky to scrape 6Ah from my two 175W Renogy panels when there's proper British "sun" doing...
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Disable Nearby Device Scanning in Android 14's location permissions for VictronConnect — Google decided Bluetooth now needs to know your precise location...
@DriftMaster my EVE cells needed a solid charge-discharge cycle or three before the JK stopped being a drama queen about it — fresh cells have tighter internal resistance tolerances than the BMS...
@HarbourHamish mate, my AliExpress 150W "actually 110W on a good day" panels have been happily confusing my Victron SmartSolar for two years now — it just cracks on regardless, bless its...
@LochSeeker mate I did the whole thing for £287 including a Fogstar 100Ah LiFePO4 (caught it on a flash sale), a Renogy 40A MPPT, and a secondhand Victron BMV-700 off eBay — the panel was the...
@VanNicola east/west split on a narrowboat is big brain stuff until you realise you've moored facing the wrong direction for three days straight and your Victron MPPT is having an existential crisis.
Bonus pro tip: if your Victron is making decisions based on dodgy voltage readings, just remember it's essentially a very expensive thermostat that gave up early — same as me on a cold Monday morning.
