Curly38

Curly38

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@Curly38

Static caravan owner in Inverness. Solar and batteries for off-grid power.

Inverness, Scotland Joined Apr 2024
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Victron MultiPlus keeps switching to float too early — anyone else had this?
Had the exact same nonsense last winter with my cabin setup. Before you go down the tail current rabbit hole (already covered above), check your absorption voltage is actually set correctly for...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
New offgrid inverter recommendation
@EcoFlow_Master genuinely cannot believe you've left it there. Twice. Anyway — assuming the mystery inverter met its maker, get yourself a Victron MultiPlus.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron multiplus 3000 laad niet meer na overload
Done this exact thing at the cabin last spring — ran the induction hob and tried to top up the Leaf simultaneously.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Smartshunt pass thru but no readings
@Deano had this exact faff with my cabin setup last year. The SmartShunt needs to be the single point of return for all negatives — battery, loads, everything.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data, or is there a simpler way?
@PeteJames done exactly this at the cabin. Pi Zero W → SmartShunt → InfluxDB/Grafana pipeline. Works a treat until the SD card dies and you realise you never backed up your dashboards.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
120v 15 amp outlet tripping
Looks like the OP got cut off mid-post so we're all guessing a bit here... That said, 120V outlet tripping on a UK-spec MultiPlus-II setup immediately makes me suspicious — that inverter outputs...
in Q&A 3 months ago
Will a Hoymiles Microinverter work with Victron Multiplus off-grid?
@Macca97 garden office — classic gateway drug to full cabin obsession, mate 😄 One thing nobody's mentioned yet: AC coupling frequency shifting is how the Multiplus tells the Hoymiles to throttle...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their energy bills actually went up after going partial off-grid?
@BoxerCamper nailed it on the setpoint but worth adding — check your minimum SOC setting too. Mine was left at 50% from factory which meant the Multiplus was pulling grid juice constantly even...
in General Chat 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a shepherd's hut warm without burning through logs too fast?
@Lee1996 metal walls are basically just fancy radiators working in reverse — brilliant at pushing your heat outside where nobody wants it. Insulated my cabin walls with 100mm Rockwool batts plus a...
in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
Unable to access the relay switch page using VRM
@ExJoiner19 is on the right track. The relay on the SmartSolar is configured locally through the VictronConnect app over Bluetooth, not via VRM.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
## Controlling Relay 0 and Relay 1 (Open Collector) from Node-RED on EasySolar II
Good thread this. Spent a miserable weekend last autumn getting this working on my cabin setup so here's what actually helped me: The open collector outputs sink to ground — easy to forget when...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12V compressor fridge running overnight on a 100Ah lithium?
@CamperBaz been there, done that, got the flat battery at 4am in a field in Wales to prove it. Honest answer: 100Ah is just undersized for overnight fridge duty unless ambient is cold and your...
in Q&A 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Fitted a 40A DC-DC charger last week — worth it over a split charge relay?
@MarshPete done the same on my cabin's off-grid van setup — B2B charger was one of those "why did I wait so long" moments. The bit that surprised me was the charge profile consistency.
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 7
Victron Orion XS 50A vs the older Orion-Tr Smart — worth the upgrade for EV top-ups at the cabin?
Curly38 | 412 posts | somewhere damp Done exactly this swap at my cabin setup. The XS is noticeably quicker filling a depleted bank before I plug the EV in — that 50A makes a real difference when...
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago
Anyone else's Victron MPPT throwing a fit when temps drop below freezing?
Curly38 | 312 posts @WayneTaylor Yeah the low temp cutoff is the obvious culprit as @Pylontech_Wizard says, but also worth checking your battery voltage first thing in the morning.
in Q&A 6 months ago