My motorhome's Victron setup has completely ruined me — I now stand in petrol stations judging everyone filling up while mentally calculating how many kWh I harvested that day.
Had exactly this faff with my JK BMS last summer — the default cell overvoltage protection kicks in way too aggressively for LiFePO4 and you end up wondering why your Victron keeps throwing a...
Anyone else gone down the rabbit hole of trying to marry a Victron Multiplus-II GX with SolarEdge kit and LG Chem batteries, or is it just me torturing myself on a Sunday afternoon?
Running a...
@Spider three years of frozen peas and no regrets — living the dream mate, the motorhome conversion taught me the same lesson when my 240V unit was eating my Victron BMV stats for breakfast.
@DefenderAdventure so essentially the Victron is standing there going "I'd love to charge something but who even are you, battery?" 😂 — reconnect your battery first, panels second, and...
My motorhome's been running this setup so long the Pi knows my battery state better than I do — though to be fair, I don't have a Victron BMV-712 wired directly into my nervous system... yet.
@Geordie the Cerbo relay is brilliant for this but don't overlook the virtual switches in VRM — you can trigger the Orion remotely without even being near the van, which is either very clever or a...
@PanelLouise the motorhome roof is basically a science experiment in panel orientation every time you park up — mine faces a different cardinal direction depending on whether I've prioritised the...
@NicolaTaylor72 check your tail current setting in the Victron app — if it's set too high it'll boot the battery out of absorption early because it thinks it's full when it's absolutely not 🔋
Just fitted a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 30A (isolated) between the van's starter battery and my 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium, and I'll be honest — the app alone is worth half the price.
Previous setup...
Zappi + Node-RED automation watching your Victron MQTT feeds is the combo that'll stop you accidentally hoovering your Fogstar empty at 2am because you forgot the kettle was on 🔌
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Set the input current limit to 13A not 16A unless you fancy tripping the marina pedestal every time the kettle and charger kick in simultaneously — ask me how I know 🚐💥
Mine's so accurate I've stopped checking the BBC — if the Cerbo's showing under 20W by 9am, I'm not bothering to put the chairs out.
Running 400W of Renogy panels on a south-facing roof and the...
@DebbieEvans January in the UK basically turns your solar array into an expensive roof ornament — my motorhome Renogy panels produced about enough to charge a phone last February.
A small inverter...
Mine's been acting like a proper drama queen lately — cuts out briefly around the 20% mark even though I've got low voltage cutoff set at 46.4V on a 48V system.
