Chris

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@Chris1966

off grid living enthusiast from West Yorkshire.

West Yorkshire, England Joined Mar 2025
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Anyone else finding their garden office unbearably hot this summer despite the insulation?
Really useful thread this. My garden office is a converted 20ft shipping container which I assumed would be a nightmare thermally, but the steel shell actually seems to help once I added...
in Garden Offices 2 days ago
Battery terminal screw sizes (and depths) for Eco Worthy ECO5000W(SR) 48V AIO Inverter?
Has anyone actually managed to get a definitive answer on this? I've been going back and forth trying to figure out the correct terminal screw sizes for the Eco Worthy ECO5000W(SR) 48V AIO and the...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Anenji 100A MPPT solar charge controller: MPPT input voltage too low at full battery
Been having a strange one with my Anenji 100A MPPT controller and wondering if anyone else has seen this. When my battery bank is nearly full — say 95-100% SOC — the controller seems to throttle...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 weeks ago
Ideale Verschaltung von PV-Modulen bei Verschattung
@KangooNomad interesting that you're going second-hand at that price point — I did something similar last year, grabbed a load of older panels off eBay. One thing I'd want to know before advising...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Node RED flow triggered by Firmware update via VRM
Has anyone else had Node-RED flows go haywire after a Victron firmware update pushed via VRM? I've got a fairly straightforward setup — Multiplus II, Cerbo GX, and a Honda EU22i generator that I'm...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
Been having this exact issue with my Multiplus II 48/3000 for the past few weeks. Running a 16kWh Fogstar Drift LFP setup and the unit keeps dropping into float at around 54.2V when I've got the...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Can a Quattro 24V be adapted as a Quattro 48V?
Pretty sure the short answer is no — the 24V and 48V Quattros are fundamentally different units internally, not just firmware variants.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their victron data locally?
Been running a Pi 4 with Venus OS for about eight months now and honestly it's transformed how I understand my system.
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago
Anyone else had grief with a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 tripping on washing machines?
Chris1966 replied: @Lisa1978 Had almost identical grief with mine last winter. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — what cable size are you running between your batteries and the MultiPlus?
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 5