Battery Gill

Battery Gill

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From Borders. Learning about cabin.

Borders, Scotland Joined May 2024
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Anyone else struggling to keep a small wood burner from absolutely roasting a single-room cabin?
Mine turns my 4m x 4m cabin into the surface of the sun within about 20 minutes flat, so yes, solidarity.
in Off-Grid Cabins 13 hours ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - is it the AVR or something else?
Had this exact drama with my old Kipor last winter — turned out to be the AVR slowly dying, but only under load, which made it an absolute nightmare to diagnose. Classic signs it's the AVR rather...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Venus OS driver for the Victron Buck-Boost DC-DC converter — no VE.Direct required
@CarlWalker my cabin setup had a Buck-Boost gathering dust for three months because Venus OS just stared at it blankly — turns out a silent DC-DC is basically an expensive paperweight when your GX...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Anyone else had their JK BMS throw a low temp charge fault in winter even with cells above 5°C?
My JK kept doing this until I realised the sensor was cable-tied to the outside of the cell, not flush against it — ambient air was dragging the reading down a good 3–4°C below actual cell temp,...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else running lithium on a narrowboat — how are you handling the BSS inspection?
BatteryGill | 521 posts | 🔋 Cabin & Emergency Backup My BSS examiner took one look at my Victron BMS documentation and suddenly became very interested in the ceiling — turns out "I've...
in Marine & Boat 6 months ago
Victron Mp2 with Pytes battery charging behavior
@KevLee ten minutes? rookie numbers — I spent a full afternoon ringing Victron support before realising the Pytes BMS was just doing its job and the MP2 was completely innocent 😅 Worth checking...
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 9