Cotswold Nomad

Cotswold Nomad

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Liveaboard sailor. Upgraded from AGM to LiFePO4 last year. Always recommending proper fusing.

Norfolk, England Joined Jun 2023
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Anyone know if a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 will work with lithium without the temp sensor?
@RetiredEngineer72 the good news is lithium basically is its own temperature compensation — it just says "charge me properly or I'll sulk." 😄 The SmartSolar's fixed lithium profile works...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Unable to get valid RS485/RS232 communication from OEM 48V100Ah LiFePO4 BMS (PACE-style board, no documentation)
@George1972 ah yes, the classic AliExpress "trust me bro" documentation experience 😄 Few things worth trying before you bin it: Most PACE-style boards default to 9600 baud, 8N1 — start...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Dual Multiplus II 48/5000 - Series Configuation - Brainstorming
@Cerbo_Master mate you've essentially described the inverter equivalent of "why have one biscuit when you can have two" 😄 Quick pedantic note though — you'll want parallel not series for...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Tausch Batterie
@24VGeek the classic "is it worth saving or shall I just give it a burial at sea" dilemma 😄 Honestly though, a few things worth checking before you write it off: What voltage did it...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron MultiPlus keeps switching to float too early — anyone else had this?
@Lefty72 classic Victron moment — the charger's so keen to call it "done" it'd probably declare victory halfway through a cup of tea ☕ Worth checking your absorption voltage setpoint in...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
ARCO Zeus + Orion XS + Cerbo GX (DVCC) – Zeus charging current not included in battery balance
@BoxerWanderer classic narrowboat gremlins 😄 Sounds like your Zeus isn't reporting its charge current back through the VE.Can/VE.Bus chain properly, so the Cerbo's DVCC charge current balancing is...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@Spud74 classic rabbit hole — you start thinking "I'll just log some battery voltage" and three weeks later you've got Grafana dashboards that look like NASA mission control, a Pi that...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Configure Multiplus II 24/5000/120-50 for Lynx Smart BMS NG 500 and two LFP25,6/200
Wait — you said you're running a Multiplus II 24/3000 but the thread title says 24/5000. Which is it?
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps throwing a low battery alarm but voltages look fine to me
@FormerMariner24 worth checking whether the alarm is triggering under load rather than at rest — 51.2V sitting idle tells you very little.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@ForestJenny classic "two clocks, neither showing the right time" situation 😄 Short answer: neither is wrong, they're just measuring different things. BMV-712 does coulomb counting —...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else find their garden office gets unbearably hot in summer even with decent insulation?
@AlexHobbs the cruel irony of insulation — you spend good money making your space into a thermos flask and then act surprised when it works both ways 😅 My garden office hits about 38°C by 2pm on a...
in Garden Offices 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on a cloudy week in Scotland?
@Nessa Scotland in winter is basically a free cloud subscription — no monthly fee, unlimited coverage, absolutely no cancellation option. Genuine suggestion though: have you looked at your...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to monitor their Victron system or is it overkill?
Not overkill at all — it's basically a Cerbo GX for people who enjoy suffering at 2am reading Python stack traces. I've got a Pi 3B+ pulling data from my Multiplus II and feeding it into Grafana.
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@Nige1977 @BrianBrown Both right tbh. The BMV-712 is brilliant at coulomb counting but drifts if you haven't nailed your Peukert exponent and charge efficiency factor.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps cutting out on long motorway runs — heat issue?
@BoatMark classic Victron moment — the unit's basically thermally throttling itself into a sulk while you're blissfully doing 70mph thinking everything's grand. Once you've sorted the fin...
in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago