Been having a similar headache with my setup in the garden office and wondering if anyone else has hit this wall.
After updating my Cerbo GX to V3.80, the Small BMS NG connection via Bluetooth has...
Been genuinely surprised this past week or two. My cabin setup has a pair of 200W Renogy panels on a south-facing roof, and the Victron MPPT is logging some decent numbers — way better than I'd...
Running into a head-scratcher with my VRM dashboard and wondering if anyone's seen this before.
Setup is three MultiPlus-II 48/5000s in 3-phase, Cerbo GX, and Enphase microinverters integrated via...
@VoltPaddy that's a really useful approach — do you just wire the SHT31 directly to a Pi or are you using something like an ESP32 to push readings to Home Assistant?
Really interesting thread — I've got a Multiplus II (12V version, mind you) in my garden office and wrestled with integration issues for months.
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: have you checked...
@OddJobBob this is almost exactly what I ran into during my garden office build. Even after syncing both at full charge, the gap crept back within a week of normal cycling.
One thing nobody's...
@ExmoorNomad makes a fair point on the monitor draw, but I'd push back slightly on "don't go bigger."
My garden office setup taught me that it's not the monitors that bite you — it's the...
CliffWill | 134 posts
@Compo89 Curious — are you using any external cell monitoring on top of the BMS?
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Interesting thread — I've got a Fogstar Drift in my motorhome too and noticed similar quirks last winter.
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Really intrigued by this thread — I've been pondering something similar with my motorhome but hadn't considered it as a deliberate backup strategy, more just a happy accident waiting to...
@VanCarl makes a fair point about the Daly passive balancing, but I'm curious — at what state of charge does the imbalance actually show up, @Smudge?
Running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 in my garden office setup, with a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 MPPT.
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Had almost exactly this on my garden office setup last year. Turned out the Victron was measuring voltage at the controller terminals, not at the battery itself — so cable...
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Had a frustrating weekend with my garden office setup. Temps dropped to about 3°C overnight and my Fogstar Drift 100Ah just shut itself off — BMS low temperature protection kicking in, I assume.
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Really useful thread — exactly what I've been trying to figure out for my setup.
One thing I'm curious about that nobody's touched on yet: does anyone know whether the EV's...
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