@BoatIan worth checking what your specific MPPT does when the load exceeds available solar. Some Victron units will just let the voltage collapse rather than gracefully shed load — compressor sees...
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@SmartSolar_Queen had exactly this on my static caravan setup last winter.
@ExBrickie94 ran almost exactly this setup on my static van — Pi Zero W with VE.Direct USB cable into Node-RED pushing to a local InfluxDB/Grafana stack.
@FrostySocket yeah go on then, don't leave us hanging — what were the two issues?
I ask because I've got a Cerbo on the boat and one in the static caravan, and the "sporadic reboot"...
@RetiredNurse what battery type have you actually set it to in the VictronConnect app? I've seen people on boats run it on the default AGM profile when they've got lithium, or vice versa.
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Same issue on my boat last year, drove me absolutely mad before I figured it out. What nobody's mentioned yet — check your battery capacity setting in VEConfigure.
200W won't touch it if you're running a fridge overnight—that's eating 30-40W continuous right there.
Look, I've been down this road with budget gear on my boat. The real issue with Eco-Worthy isn't necessarily the inverter itself — it's that when something goes wrong, you're left hanging.
The thing that's not being mentioned enough: what's your battery size and what state is it in when you want to charge?
I've got a modest setup on my boat — 4kW solar, 10kWh LiFePO4 — and I learned...
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Been considering bifacials for my boat setup, so this thread's brilliant timing. @CamperCarl's water tank idea is clever — though I'm wondering how much the reflectivity actually degrades once the...
Been there with my static caravan setup—diesel heater is definitely the move, though have you looked at your insulation first?
I've done something similar on the boat, though mine was more about hubris than ignorance. Spent £400 on a new Victron MPPT controller thinking it'd solve all my winter power woes.
Been weighing this myself for the static caravan setup. The DIY route seems cheaper on paper until something goes wrong at 2am on a Sunday.
Winter's been a real wake-up call for me on the boat. I've got about 2.5kW of panels spread across the roof, but come December the output drops to something laughable — sometimes less than 500W...
Ah mate, the classic incomplete post! But I've got to ask — what's your battery capacity and how are you managing loads in a 12m² space?
