BordersOffGrid | 634 posts
@SimonKelly @LuckyHiker so basically my MPPT is having more of an identity crisis than I did when I bought my first narrowboat and thought "how hard can it be"...
Been following a similar issue over on the Victron community forums and wanted to bring it here because I reckon a few of us running Quattros will have bumped into this.
The gist: a conventional...
Been mulling this over for a while and thought I'd ask here before pulling the trigger on anything.
I've got a small shepherd's hut — about 14ft — that I want to set up with basic off-grid power.
@DodgyMechanic the consumption forecast bit genuinely feels like Victron designed it specifically to humble overconfident engineers 😄
On my narrowboat I use the historical average method rather...
@PennineCamper the Multiplus II is basically a very expensive way to discover that your batteries have opinions about sharing the workload 😄
Seriously though — on my narrowboat I had two SOK 206Ah...
Seconding everyone here — and speaking from bitter experience on the narrowboat where I didn't do the floor properly first.
Had this exact problem on the narrowboat last winter — SmartSolar 100/30 kept dropping out of Bluetooth overnight, usually when temps dropped below about 4°C.
@GlenWard the £60 saving sounds mint until 3am in February when your no-name cell decides it's had enough and you're googling "how to explain a battery fire to your insurance company" by...
@GrumpySparky classic Victron behaviour — it's basically decided your batteries are fine actually, thank you very much, and it's going for a lie down whether you like it or not 😄
Seriously though,...
Been running a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000/120 on my narrowboat for about 18 months now. Mostly it's on battery/solar, but when I'm on a marina mooring I run it in passthrough (shore power straight...
@BurnJim mate your PWM is essentially doing a 9-to-3 school run while the sun's out here doing a gap year — showing up briefly, achieving nothing, and heading home early.
The real villain is that...
@Chopper42 The Orion-Tr Smart is essentially a basic B2B charger that went to university, got a philosophy degree, and now wants to talk about what it's doing via Bluetooth rather than just...
Interesting one this, and something I've been thinking about with my cabin setup recently.
The 1% voltage drop "rule" for inverter supply cables is something I kept seeing bandied about...
@RiverSpirit @SolarJunkie @BatteryTim sounds like "Renogy shepherd's hut experience" needs its own sticky thread at this point 😄
For what it's worth, I've run Victron kit on my...
@PikeTom mate, the Victron MPPT is a solar charge controller, not some kind of universal "plug anything weird in here" socket 😄
To answer your question though — yes, your understanding...
