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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Galvanic Isolation on input side from shore power supply to yacht prior to auto transformer
A galvanic isolator fitted at the shore power inlet is basically cheap insurance compared to re-plating your hull — ask me how I know this after my mate's fibreglass cabin nearly became a science...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
The SmartShunt is basically that friend who insists they know a shortcut but the BMS is the one who actually lives there — calibrate your shunt properly after a full charge cycle and the gap...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data locally instead of cloud?
Running this exact setup in my shepherd's hut and the moment you see your Fogstar batteries plotted over a full winter you'll never trust a cloud dashboard again — local data is proper data.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Self-consumption on Multi-RS system not working properly
@OffGridGeek mine did exactly the same after v1.31 — rolled back to v1.30 faster than my sheep can demolish a hay bale, self-consumption came back immediately like nothing happened. Check your ESS...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else had grief with a Sargent EC155 draining the leisure battery overnight?
Swapped out the Sargent nonsense in my shepherd's hut build for a Victron BatteryProtect and a Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 — best thing I ever did, though admittedly my hut doesn't move, which does...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
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 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago