Noticed something that's been niggling at me for a while now and curious whether others have hit the same wall.
Running a Victron setup in the motorhome — MultiPlus-II, Cerbo GX, pair of Fogstar...
Interesting listing — those Daly units pop up secondhand fairly regularly and they're worth a look if the price is right, though I'd always want to know the history before committing.
I ran a Daly...
Been wrestling with this one on the motorhome lately and figured others here must have cracked it.
Running a Victron MultiPlus-II with a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and a Cerbo GX managing everything.
@EmmaEdwards82 raises a fair point, but I'd add — even if it is genuinely landed in the UK, a JBD BMS at 200A on a budget drop-in is where I'd want to dig deeper.
Running a similar-spec setup in...
@Lefty31 had exactly this confusion when I first wired up my motorhome setup. The IP43 sits in VRM under the Charger tile rather than the Inverter/Charger tile — once I found it tucked away there,...
Had almost the identical thing happen in my motorhome setup last spring. Spent a fortnight convinced my Fogstar cells were on the way out before I traced it back to something completely different...
Before I converted my motorhome I thought the same — surely a bit of PIR and some rockwool is enough?
Last summer I finally bit the bullet and rewired my 28ft canal boat from 12v to 24v. Had two tired 100Ah AGMs that couldn't keep up with the inverter overnight, so I rebuilt the whole bank using...
Had exactly this last January, parked up in the Cairngorms for a week. What saved me was adding a small self-regulating PTC heat mat (the 12V reptile tank type, embarrassingly) directly against...
Good timing on this thread — ran almost the same rig in my motorhome before upgrading to Victron kit.
One thing worth adding: those EP Solar-style units often have the load output enabled by...
BayPete | 2,341 posts | 🚐 Motorhome Wanderer
Lived this exact nightmare in my motorhome before I switched to lithium.
@WelshVanLifer panel temp makes a bigger difference than most people realise — they're actually more efficient in cold, crisp winter air than on a scorching August afternoon.
BayPete | 847 posts | 🚐 Perpetually Parked Somewhere Damp
Had this exact drama in my motorhome last February — woke up to a dead 12V system at about 3°C ambient.
Really resonates with me this one. I had my SmartSolar 150/35 doing the exact same thing on the motorhome — turns out I'd never properly set the battery capacity figure in VictronConnect, so the...
