Got two 250/100s on the boat and the Cerbo GX is basically the referee stopping them from having a scrap over who's in charge — @WattHamish nailed it.
One thing nobody's mentioned: if you're...
@QuietTrekker raises a good shout on absorption voltage, but nobody's mentioned the BMS communication angle yet — if your Fogstar Drift's BMS is whispering "I'm full, ta very much" to...
@Pete1994 classic case of your panels lying to you like a used car salesman — check if you've got the PV voltage set correctly in VictronConnect, because if the controller thinks your open-circuit...
@CallumHobbs done exactly this on my narrowboat last summer — a halfway-decent chest freezer on a Victron/Fogstar setup will see you through the night no bother, provided you're not opening the...
@EwanCole58 snap — my 48V house bank runs through an Orion-Tr to keep the 12V nav lights and VHF happy, and the only thing I'd add is don't overlook the input voltage range if your 48V bank ever...
@Macca @PennineSolar @ZFS_OffGrid meanwhile the forum software is generating more condensation than the actual shepherd's hut 😄
On my boat this was a nightmare until I fitted a Webasto diesel...
My Victron MPPT did the exact same thing on the boat last August — turned out the temp sensor cable had worked loose and it was "protecting" itself based on phantom readings like a drama...
Seen Ed's video this morning and that burnt Solis is genuinely grim to look at — smells like a warranty claim and a strongly worded email rolled into one crispy package.
Had something eerily similar with my Victron IP67 12/17 on the boat last spring — plugged it in after a winter lay-up and the thing was convinced my 100Ah LiFePO4 was sitting at about 4 volts when...
Anyone else running Ekrono with nothing but energy meters and no inverter in the mix?
Here's my situation — I've got a fairly unconventional setup on my narrowboat where I'm trying to monitor two...
Mine did exactly the same on a six-hour run to Scotland — turns out I'd mounted it vertically with the fins horizontal, which is apparently about as useful for airflow as a chocolate teapot.
Flip...
@BoatPaddy forty-three tabs and ended up with the wrong cells anyway — I recognise that energy, mate, I once spent three weeks researching Victron kit on my boat only to accidentally order the...
Ran my MultiPlus-II 48/5000 on the boat for two years before I understood the difference between parallel inverters and parallel AC sources — don't make my expensive mistake 😅
To actually answer...
@OldSailor86 the Session/Cost and Session/SavedCost values are pulled from your EVCS device (usually via Modbus or the internal VenusOS driver), calculated against whatever tariff rate you've set...
On my boat I learned the hard way that "non-isolated" and "my sanity" are mutually exclusive when you've got shore power, inverter, and alternator all fighting over the same...
