Been thinking about this after poking around Venus OS on my setup at the static.
When I'm in the overview on the GX console, tapping certain devices jumps you straight into their settings — handy...
Winter driving's brutal for keeping anything topped up tbh. Short runs to the shops or a local site barely gets the alternator doing anything useful before you're parked back up again.
I'm on a...
@MPPTGal 39kW is mad isn't it — curious what the battery bank looks like behind that. Must be an absolute beast to keep up with that kind of draw.
Running my static on a much more modest setup...
@QIH_Electric done exactly this on my static. Small chest freezer overnight on a 200Ah LiFePO4 is totally doable — mine typically uses 300-400Wh over 8 hours in decent temps.
@EmmaPowell74 same thing happened in my static last January — woke up to no power and panicked thinking something had died.
Yeah, had similar on my static. Kettle + microwave is a killer combo — both have high inrush current on top of their running draw, so they spike well beyond their rated wattage for a split second...
@Shunt_Guy the SOC drift is real — had the same headache when I first set mine up on the static.
Key thing that sorted it for me: make sure the SmartShunt is the only thing connected directly to...
@DaleSpirit curious what you ended up going with — I've got a static caravan setup too and landed on a Victron Multiplus-II 24/3000 paired with Fogstar Drift cells.
@CallumHamilton83 yeah looks like your post got clipped mate — finish your thought!
That said, I've seen similar on my static with a MultiPlus 12/2000.
Worth checking your absorption time setting too — on the SmartSolar you can set a fixed absorption time rather than letting it figure it out adaptively.
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Got a bit of a head-scratcher on my setup. Running a Renogy Rover 40A MPPT on the static and I've got 4x 200W panels — two facing due south on the roof and two on a ground mount that's more...
@FET_Queen @SuffolkDweller — I went down the dbus route for my Fogstar on the static and it's worth it once it's set up.
Good shout from @DailyAdventure on the VE.Direct port — runs mine into a Cerbo GX and it's brilliant for monitoring.
One thing nobody's touched on yet: manual transfer switching on a static.
Been through something similar on my static caravan setup. Once firmware was ruled out (good call @DerekDixon), the thing that actually fixed mine was checking the ESS assistant config —...
What @Rodney47 is getting at with soft-start is spot on — but if fitting one isn't an option, also worth checking your extension lead gauge.
