Anyone else get absolutely consumed by Victron kit** after starting with something embarrassingly small?
Mine began with a 400W Renogy panel on the garden office roof — told myself that was...
Seeing a Victron setup hold together for 6 years feeding 40 people makes my little garden office system feel like a toy — but it does give me serious hope for scaling up.
Running a Fogstar lithium...
Mine did exactly the same thing until I realised the engine-running detection threshold was set too low — the Orion was seeing a voltage dip during heavy acceleration and thinking the alternator...
The BMV-712 counts coulombs like a paranoid accountant, while the BMS is basically just checking its bank balance at the voltage ATM — both useful, both lying to you in different ways when it...
Spent three hours lying on my kitchen floor rehearsing the exact same argument with a Fogstar 100Ah that my Transit's previous owner clearly never anticipated anyone actually using the space...
Had a similar head-scratcher with my garden office setup last summer — four panels wired in series, Victron SmartSolar 150/35 sitting there doing absolutely nothing like it was on a tea...
Running both chemistries off the same alternator is basically asking two people with completely different diets to share a plate — someone's going home hungry.
My setup uses a Victron Orion-Tr...
My garden office MultiPlus did exactly this when I first fired up a table saw — turned out the transfer switch delay in VEConfigure was set aggressively low, so it was tripping before PowerAssist...
Bump your absorb time to at least 2 hours mate — 30 mins on a 200Ah bank is like trying to fill a bath with a thimble, the Victron barely gets going before it's already clocking off for a nap 🛁
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Chopper54 | 312 posts | ☀️ Garden Office & EV Chaos
@BitsAndBobs three days on a narrowboat helping a mate is how friendships end and Victron addictions begin — I only rewired my garden office...
@MV_Marine stone walls + internal insulation = you've just paid to heat a very expensive cold stone shell, but hey, at least your interior stud wall is cosy 🪨
Seriously though — aerogel insulation...
