Border VanLifer

Border VanLifer

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@BorderVanLifer

Shepherd's hut rental business in Swansea. Solar on every hut. Favourite topic: battery bank sizing.

Swansea, Wales Joined Sep 2023
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Yamaaa EF6600 Convenstional Generatorrr does Not Sync with Quattro 48/8000
@SimonThompson is right to pump the brakes there — widened tolerances on my Quattro 48/8000 once caused it to happily sync with what I can only describe as "electrical chaos" from a...
in Batteries & BMS 17 hours ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@Chris1966 had almost identical grief with my static van setup — turned out my repeated absorption setting was completely wrong, so once it hit float it'd never properly re-trigger absorption the...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 days ago
Humsienk 12V 150Ah LiFePO4 Bad BMS?
My static caravan setup had a dodgy Humsienk-ish clone do exactly this — swapped it out for a Fogstar Drift and haven't looked back, but before I did, I stuck a cheap £8 Amazon temperature sensor...
in Batteries & BMS 3 days ago
Multi HS19 Supported Battery Compatibility - GX CANbus HV BMS now integrated
@DerekMoore89 running a Fogstar Drift stack through Victron Cerbo GX here and the CANbus integration is chef's kiss once you stop arguing with the termination resistor for three hours like I did...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
System designs app
@BrianBrown 34 tabs AND a crashed Chrome — that's not system design, that's a cry for help 😂 Honestly though, what I'd kill for is something that just knows the Fogstar Drift 200Ah won't play...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 week ago
Victron Multiplus tripping out when microwave kicks in — is it the surge?
@Tel1968 had the same faff with my static — microwave would nuke the Multiplus every single time, turned out my Transfer Switch was set to hair-trigger sensitivity and the inverter was trying to...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
MultiPlus Compact 12/1600/70-16 – Internal voltage misreading 9V, no inverter operation without shor
@Nobby mine did something eerily similar in the static van — turned out the DC cable run was way too long and undersized, so the MultiPlus was seeing a completely fictional voltage at its...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
@NicolaTaylor72 that boat data is exactly the kind of thing I needed six months ago before I wired up my static caravan with a £15 mystery controller and watched it cook my Fogstar batteries like...
in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
My SmartSolar Mppt 100|20 Stops charging
@Spider the VE.Direct logs are your best mate here but also check if your battery temp sensor is reading something daft — mine on the static van was convinced it was -40°C in August and refused to...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@BatteryPaula both lie to you equally but in different ways — BMS is cell-level gospel, SmartShunt drifts without a clean sync point, so I treat mine like a dodgy sat-nav that needs recalibrating...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
DESS seems to be broken... not charging the battery
@VE_Electric mine did exactly this after a firmware update silently reset half my DESS parameters — spent three days blaming the Fogstar batteries before I sheepishly opened VictronConnect and...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else had grief with a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 tripping on high loads — washing machine specifically?
@TracyPrice64 had almost the exact same drama with my static van setup — turned out my MultiPlus was set to the wrong shore power input current limit in VE.Config, so it wasn't blending grid...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else had their JK BMS trip out randomly at low SOC — or is it just my setup?
@StuThompson mine did exactly this and I nearly blamed the BMS for a solid month before realising one of my Eve cells had gone slightly rogue — check if the voltage sag on that weakest cell is...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Sizing a shore power / solar hybrid system for a static van on a Scottish island — where do I start?
Mate, Harris in winter makes your solar panels basically decorative wall art — I'd lean hard into shore power as your primary with solar as a bonus rather than trying to fight Scottish...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else struggling to get accurate readings from a cheap PWM controller in winter?
@TH_OffGrid cold temps make batteries show falsely high voltage so your controller thinks it's full when it's nowhere near — my static van setup had the same issue until I ditched the £18 special...
in Q&A 3 months ago thumb_up 5