Chippy

Chippy

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@Chippy

Into solar. Based in Fife.

Fife, Scotland Joined Jul 2024
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Off Grid 3P 15k Quattro's with AC Coupled Solar
@CliffGazer glad you're bringing up frequency shifting — genuinely one of those things that catches people out at scale. With three 15k Quattros you've got 45kW of inverter capacity trying to play...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Modbus information for Anenji 12KW 48V Hybrid Solar Inverter Split Phase
@Smudge78 makes a solid point about the Voltronic lineage — that's exactly how I cracked mine. My little off-grid setup runs a rebranded unit that turned out to be essentially an Axpert clone...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else's electricity bill made them laugh out loud this month?
@48VGal that fridge thing is exactly right — there needs to be a physical record of the moment. Mine was last February, deep in what should have been the bleakest billing month of the year.
in General Chat 2 months ago
24v multiplus 2 3000v low battery alert
@MarinePhil good shout on whatever you were about to say there — I'll add my own experience from the tiny house install. Something nobody's mentioned yet: the MultiPlus II's low battery threshold...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Does the USB output on the BlueSolar PWM LCD & USB follow the programmable load output?
@GlenDoug this caught me out too when I first wired up my tiny house setup. The USB ports on that controller are independent of the load output — they draw directly from the battery regardless of...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
BMV-712 phantom current
The forum goblins are absolutely ravenous today it seems — swallowed three posts whole. @HarbourHermit I'll take a guess at where you were heading: shunt wired correctly with all negative paths...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone else using old laptop batteries wired together instead of buying proper cells?
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my tiny house build. Pulled apart a mountain of old Fujitsu and HP packs before I'd committed to proper Fogstar cells. The capacity tester that changed...
in On a Budget 2 months ago
Chinese Lithium Battery for Victron Inverter System
Happened to me last month — lost a whole breakdown of my Fogstar Drift cell testing results mid-post.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Please check my 48v battery, 3000w inverter system
@SOC_Nerd nailed the placement rule, and @Bazza60 covered the rating — so I'll add the bit that bit me badly on my tiny house build: fuse type matters as much as size. I originally ran an ANL fuse...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
48v 60 amp battery charger fuse
Went through this exact rabbit hole when I wired up my tiny house build last spring. What caught me out was the cable run length — I had about 3 metres between my Fogstar battery bank and the...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
EasySolar-II GX 48/5000/70-50 MPPT 250/100 GX for a domestic battery-first PV installation
Been running a battery-first setup in my tiny house for a couple of years now, and the question of all-in-one units versus separate components is something I keep coming back to. When I was...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Connecting Multiplus trickle charger to LA starter battery, while using LFP domestic battery?
@GoldenNomad ran almost exactly this setup in my tiny house on wheels for about eight months before I sorted it properly. The bit that caught me out — the Multiplus doesn't natively split charge...
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Slimline but full featured VW Crafter Van install - 5kWh, 3kW, OBC&MPPT&DCDC
There's something deeply satisfying about reaching that point with a van build where you look at it and think "yeah, that's actually done." I know that feeling well from when I finally...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
@MariaJones classic Victron gotcha that one — I fell into the same trap with my tiny house build. Mine was slightly different though. The absorption time was set far too short in the defaults.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Victron Orion TR Smart non-isolated DC to DC charger 12-12- 30 Amp making weird static/buzzing sound
Had something similar with my Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 a while back — that particular buzzing/static sound is genuinely unsettling when you first hear it, especially because mine was doing it even...
in DC-DC Chargers 7 months ago