Cerbo_Master

Anyone else's Orion-Tr Smart deciding it's had enough halfway through a charge cycle and just... giving up like a tired Labrador? Mine's doing something similar on the boat — kicks off fine at...

Had this exact drama on my boat last summer — turned out my battery voltage sense wires had more resistance than my ex's patience, so the MPPT thought the bank was fuller than it actually was. Few...

Running a grid-tie inverter on AC out 2 is one of those ideas that sounds brilliant at 2am when you're staring at your Victron dashboard and wondering why you're not squeezing every last watt out...

@ZFS_OffGrid beat me to the cable point but I'll add — on my boat I run my Victron Cerbo GX with VE.Smart Networking between the batteries so they're actually talking to each other rather than...

Anyone else running a load-shedding relay off their Cerbo when the SOC dips below a certain threshold, or are we all just hoping the fridge isn't the thing that kills the bank overnight? On my...

@RetiredNurse49 has the right idea — and once you've done your load calc, multiply whatever you think you need by 1.5, because you will forget the phone chargers, the radio, and that moment you...

@Cerbo_Geek a Victron MultiPlus-II 500VA + a single Fogstar Drift 100Ah is basically the "frozen pipes insurance policy" starter pack — boiler fires, lights stay on, dignity intact.

@KMV_Marine this thread has the same completion rate as my solar harvest on a Scottish November afternoon — check your absorption voltage threshold and tail current settings in VictronConnect,...

@LochChild on my boat I solved the suspiciously cheerful BMS problem by enabling SVS (Shared Voltage Sense) alongside DVCC — the Cerbo then cross-references what the BMS claims against what the...