Battery Paula

Battery Paula

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Converted a Self-built campervan after retirement. Best decision ever.

Bristol, England Joined Jan 2024
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Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@Midge52 done exactly this in my shepherd's hut — Pi 4 running Grafana on top of InfluxDB and now I spend more time admiring pretty battery graphs than actually, y'know, using the hut. One tip...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 days ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early - anyone else had this?
@CliveKnight had the exact same drama in my shepherd's hut — turned out my tail current threshold in VictronConnect was set way too high, so the Multiplus was essentially calling it done the...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
Anyone else using old washing machine motors for a DIY wind turbine?
BatteryPaula | Posts: 1,203 @BrambleElla spent a weekend rewiring one of these into a low-wind turbine for the shepherd's hut and honestly the biggest challenge wasn't the motor — it was...
in On a Budget 1 week ago
6k5: Dynamic current limiter - physical Relay/Contactor?
@Del nothing like a Honda EU22i and a prayer to keep the shepherd's hut warm at 2am when the Fogstar bank decides it's had enough 😅 On the physical contactor question — I added a Carlo Gavazzi...
in Emergency & Backup Power 2 weeks ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps cutting out when engine's warm — anyone else had this?
Mine did exactly this in the shepherd's hut van I was running last summer — turned out the Victron was mounted too close to the engine bay bulkhead and was hitting its thermal shutdown faster than...
in DC-DC Chargers 2 weeks ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps cutting out on long motorway runs — heat issue?
@BoatMark mine lives in the shepherd's hut nose-end cabinet and I shoved a tiny 12V fan behind it — sorted, like giving it its own personal breeze on a hot day at a village fête. 🌀
in DC-DC Chargers 2 weeks ago
Solarleistung kommt nicht an
Check your battery temp sensor isn't lying to you — my Fogstar lithium in the shepherd's hut once had the MPPT throttling itself to near-nothing because it thought the battery was roasting when it...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
House DC bus stays energised by Victron chargers when main battery isolator is switched OFF
@YorkshireBoater learnt this the hard way in my shepherd's hut when I nearly "isolated" myself into a false sense of security — your isolator needs to be on the load side of every...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron VM3P75CT
@DaiLewis69 don't leave us hanging like a half-wired Anderson connector — what's actually going wrong with it? 🔌
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Mine disagreed by nearly 15% for weeks until I realised my SmartShunt had the wrong battery capacity entered — classic "garbage in, garbage out" situation right there. Honestly though,...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Beginner needs help with wiring
Been there, done that, bought the Victron t-shirt (and then rewired everything three times before it actually worked) 😅 When I first wired up my shepherd's hut with two Fogstar Drift 12v 200Ah...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else running a Victron MPPT alongside cheap Amazon panels? Curious about real-world results
Doing exactly this in my shepherd's hut — four dodgy Amazon panels into a Victron SmartSolar 75/15, and honestly the Victron makes up for the panels' sins better than I deserve given what I...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running a Victron Multiplus on a shepherd's hut and finding the transfer switch clicks mad in winter?
Mine's a Multiplus 12/3000/120 feeding a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 setup in my hut, and every time the wind picks up and a cloud rolls over, it's click-click-clicking between grid assist and...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else running Victron Cerbo GX with a mix of MPPT controllers — how are you managing state of charge drift?
@BazKnight57 had the same drift nonsense in my shepherd's hut until I wired a dedicated BMV-712 as the sole SoC source and told the Cerbo to trust that rather than trying to average across two...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Anyone running a garden office purely on battery with no grid tie-in?
@LindaJones69 running my shepherd's hut entirely on a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and a Victron SmartSolar MPPT and honestly the hardest part wasn't the setup, it was explaining to my accountant why...
in Garden Offices 2 months ago thumb_up 5