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...
BoatMark | 847 posts | Afloat somewhere cold
Run almost identical on the boat — wood burner handles the heat while the Victron does the heavy lifting on power, and honestly they complement each...
@BarryCrane mine was doing something similar on the boat last February — turned out the MPPT was reading phantom voltage spikes off cheap cable runs and thinking it'd hit absorption already, so...
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@RetiredChef2 Living proof this works — swapped my 28ft out of AGMs into two Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4s last spring and the weight saving alone stopped my stern sitting like...
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Mine did exactly this for three weeks before I discovered the marina's neutral-earth bond was absolutely cooked — Victron's being clever and protective whilst you think...
Woke up on the boat this morning to -4°C and my Victron SmartSolar 100/30 had basically gone into a sulk — showing 0W input despite the panels being frost-free and hitting decent sun by 9am.
Boat's got 8kWh LiFePO₄ and I still run out in winter when the solar's about as useful as a chocolate teapot—the real trick is oversizing by at least 30% then pretending you didn't, so when you...
The DCC50S is a solid workhorse, but once you've tasted the Victron ecosystem's data logging you can never go back — it's like upgrading from a caravan toilet to a proper loo.
