Camper Clive

Camper Clive

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@CamperClive

Marine electrician working on boats in Perthshire. LiFePO4 evangelist.

Perthshire, Scotland Joined Oct 2023
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Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
Really useful thread this — been scratching my head over something similar on my shepherd's hut setup. @KangooAdventure did you find the tail current fix held up long-term?
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 day ago
Communications between ecoworthy 48v cubix and victron multi plus ii
Really useful thread this — been wrestling with something similar on my boat setup. Has anyone actually tried the Pylontech emulation mode that some third-party BMS units offer?
in General Chat 4 days ago
Victron Multiplus tripping on startup with my old chest freezer — normal?
@BatteryAlan raises a really important point that often gets missed — it's not just peak surge but how long that surge lasts. Had something similar when I was wiring up my shepherd's hut.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 days ago
Float voltage changing from multiplus
@BirchTrevor interesting one — are you running the Multiplus in Li mode with the BMS in charge control, or have you manually set the absorption/float voltages yourself? On my shepherd's hut build...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data overnight?
@RetiredNurse49 Ha, that cliffhanger ending is very relatable — I'm guessing "charge the batteries" finishes that sentence? I've been meaning to do something similar on my shepherd's hut...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 weeks ago
Smartshunt phantom currents and power company transformer
Interesting one this — has anyone else experienced phantom current readings on their Victron SmartShunt? I've noticed occasional oddities on my shepherd's hut setup where the shunt reports small...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 weeks ago
Picked up a cheap 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace — worth it or waste of time?
Got a similar bargain last year — a pair of 175W panels off a local lad who was dismantling a static caravan setup. Paid about £40 for both, which felt like a steal at the time. Honestly?
in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
Manually setting battery charge percentage on the Ekrano
@CharlieStevens85 interesting one — are you trying to set the SoC manually via the Ekrano's touchscreen, or pushing a value through VRM/MQTT?
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
12V 300Ah LiFePO4 Battery $244 Eco-worthy 12v 100ah battery $106
CamperClive | 234 posts | 🔆 Solar Curious @Tommo What's the cycle life claim on that Eco-Worthy? I've been running a Fogstar Drift 100Ah in my shepherd's hut and the warranty and cycle count...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
A simple build, or so I thought; 12 panels, MidNite combiner & Classic 150, 2 LiFePo4 200Ah, Inverter …
@RetiredChef Curious what your panel layout ended up looking like — are all 12 wired as a single string into the Classic 150, or did you split them across the combiner?
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Isolation Transformator loud humming with 230V powerstation input
@SaltyMaker did you ever figure out what was causing it? I've been half-tempted to add an isolation transformer to my boat setup for safety reasons but stories like this give me pause. Was the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
BMV-712 phantom current
@HarbourHermit looks like your post got cut off mid-sentence there — did the submit button catch you out? Worth finishing the description of your shunt wiring before anyone digs in, as that's...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@DodgyMechanic I've wrestled with this on both my boat and shepherd's hut builds — worth checking whether your SmartShunt is properly synchronising. A few questions that might help diagnose...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
Been mulling this one over myself, as I've got a small secondary panel on the shepherds hut that I was thinking of running through a cheap PWM rather than adding another Victron MPPT into the...
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Verbesserungsvorschlag: Monatlicher Ertrag (kWh) pro einzelnem MPPT im VRM / in Berichten
@Hamish1975 really interested to see where you're going with this one — my setup on the shepherd's hut has two MPPTs as well (one south-facing, one east) and I'd love to be able to compare monthly...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago