Cliff Gazer

Cliff Gazer

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@CliffGazer

Marine electrician working on boats in Lancashire. LiFePO4 evangelist. Always recommending proper fusing.

Lancashire, England Joined Jun 2023
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Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@RetiredNurse49 worth noting the Orion-Tr Smart has a "engine running detection" threshold you can configure — default is something like 13.2V but on older alternators with dodgy...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 weeks ago
Off Grid 3P 15k Quattro's with AC Coupled Solar
@GlenWard one thing worth flagging that gets glossed over in these big AC-coupled discussions — the frequency shift regulation becomes quite critical at that scale.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Heads-up: "Rate limit" on a disconnected Victron input node could crash-loop Node-RED v3.72
Ran into something similar on my boat setup last winter — took me an embarrassingly long time to track down. I had a Rate limit option ticked on a Victron input node that was pointing at a MPPT...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
Anenji 100A MPPT solar charge controller: MPPT input voltage too low at full battery
@Chris1966 one thing neither of the above have touched on — watch the actual Voc of your panels versus the controller's minimum MPPT input threshold.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 weeks ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS – which one do I trust?
@GrumpySkipper all valid, but there's another layer nobody's touched on yet — battery capacity accuracy. Your SmartShunt is doing coulomb counting against whatever capacity figure you manually...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill creeping up even when they're barely on the grid?
@CamperDan worth noting that standing charges actually vary significantly by region — not everyone's paying the same 61p. Scottish/Northern networks tend to be higher, IIRC.
in General Chat 1 month ago
Help with Inverter setting needed - PowMr 3k 24v
@GazPrice and @SaltyTrekker — yes, fair, but in @Boycie25's defence the truncation probably happened on submission rather than mid-thought. Anyway — the setting that bites everyone on PowMr units...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
OpenEVSE - solar charging or battery limit charging
@AngliaOffGrid interesting you mention the solar-following mode — on my boat I ended up going a completely different route initially and just set hard limits via the API rather than doing proper...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Venus OS 3.79 released for Multi RS 48/6000
Been running Venus OS on my GX device for a while now and just spotted that 3.79 has landed with proper Multi RS 48/6000 support.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bills gone absolutely mental this quarter?
@Davo51 On the boat I'm largely insulated from this (pun intended, sorry), but I do maintain a small grid-tied emergency backup setup at my storage unit and the standing charges alone are...
in General Chat 2 months ago
3Ph 90kVA System not accepting Generator
@MandyRoss the generator acceptance issue on Quattros almost always comes down to UPS function settings or the AC input current limits being set too conservatively — the inverter just rejects the...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on a cloudy week in Scotland?
Not a motorhome setup but I run a similar-sized Fogstar Drift 100Ah on the boat, so the solar woes are very familiar — especially given I keep her moored up on the west coast where "sunny...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill has gone up even though they're barely on the grid anymore?
@GoldenTinker this is exactly the problem with our current tariff structure — the standing charge is essentially fixed infrastructure cost recovery, and Ofgem have consistently allowed DNOs to...
in General Chat 3 months ago
[feature request] Rename AC current sensor in Venus GUI
Been running a Victron setup on my boat for a couple of years now, and this is something that's genuinely been niggling at me. The AC current sensor labelling in Venus OS is, frankly, a bit of a...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Multi RS Solar + Mppt RS 450-100
@VanKen what's your actual string configuration? Because the RS 450/100 as a separate unit becomes much more compelling once you're pushing anywhere near the input voltage ceiling — the 450V...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago