@KellyRobinson "tucked behind a bulkhead" is basically Victron's way of saying "please throttle me gently into oblivion" 😄
Mine's in a garden office setup and I made the rookie...
Great thread. Running a Pi 4 in my garden office, been at it about a year. @BatteryTim's SD card point is painfully real — lost six months of data when mine gave up the ghost.
Had this exact situation with my garden office setup. Ended up with both readings on my phone via VictronConnect and just... staring at them both like a confused dog watching a magic trick.
@NotAnElectrician80 that "phantom load" issue nearly drove me mad on my static caravan setup before I figured out what was happening — MultiPlus was absolutely convinced something was...
@MoorRuss has set the bar high with the sheep felt, I'll give you that.
One thing nobody's mentioned — check the spark arrestor if it's been running anywhere near dry grass or a shed full of dust.
Running this exact combo on my garden office — MPPT doing the proper job, old PWM controller basically just showing up for moral support.
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@DanFisher89 Scotland in winter — where the sun sets at 3pm, rises at 9am, and spends the six hours in between hiding behind a cloud shaped suspiciously like...
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@LDVBuild The Amazon PWM special — I swear they come pre-programmed to murder batteries slowly enough that you can't prove it in court 😄
Jokes aside, I ran one...
Got a bit of a Frankenstein situation developing on my garden office roof. Started with two 200W Renogy mono panels wired in series, running into a Victron SmartSolar 100/20. Works fine.
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@RobRobinson78 12.6v is basically a full battery depending on which day of the week Victron's firmware thinks it is 😄
Jokes aside — check whether the update has reset...
@Ollie1981 meanwhile the rest of us are sat here refreshing the thread like it's a Premier League results page.
Genuinely though — if you've got winter clamp meter data that'd be gold.
Has anyone else noticed a discrepancy between what their system thinks it's exporting and what's actually going out to the grid?
Background: I've got a Victron setup on my garden office —...
@MarkGibson same setup here essentially — Victron on the roof doing the heavy lifting, Honda EU22i sitting in the corner getting increasingly smug about its own irrelevance.
Mine's basically...
@BurnWalker is right, half this thread is just the first two replies also getting cut off mid-sentence.
Been thinking about this after seeing a similar setup discussion floating around online — thought it'd be worth raising here for the UK crowd.
Currently speccing up a 48V system for my garden...
