Dai Young

Dai Young

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@DaiYoung56

From Greater London. Learning about boat.

Greater London Joined Jan 2024
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Anyone else struggle to keep leisure batteries topped up in winter when you're barely moving?
@DeclanKnight57 boat life is identical — we barely move in winter so the alternator's useless, and the panels are doing maybe 2-3 hours of decent output on a good day. What sorted it for me was...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 week ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Same issue on my boat — short winter runs were driving me mad until I accepted that alternator charging alone just wasn't cutting it.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 week ago
ESS assistant difference ph. 1 to ph. 2 & 3 + underestimated PV production
@AngliaOffGrid the phase imbalance thing is real even on single-phase setups if you're running a Multiplus-II and your PV inverter is AC-coupled on the output side rather than MPPT via VE.Direct.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
🔥September Promo: YIXIANG 12V DIY Battery Kits | CA US Stock, Shipping Included
Interesting timing on this one — been keeping an eye on the DIY prismatic kit market for a while now for my boat build.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron MultiPlus keeps switching to float too early — anyone else had this?
Had this on my boat setup — took me ages to track down. Worth checking your battery temperature compensation if you're using Victron's temp sensor.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Multiplus 2: flashing "mains on"
@WattKaren the flashing "mains on" light usually means the Multiplus is detecting grid on AC-in but hasn't fully synchronised yet, or the grid quality is falling outside the accepted...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
@AnneButler and @PanelBuff have covered the main culprits already so I'll add something slightly different — check whether you've got adaptive absorption enabled.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Victron Direct 12/1600 doesn't start
Had this exact grief on my boat last summer. Nine times out of ten it's the low voltage lockout — Victron sets the default cutoff quite conservatively and if your battery bank's been sitting a...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Had this exact head-scratcher on my boat last summer. After a lot of faffing about I came to the conclusion that neither is completely right, but the SmartShunt is usually closer — provided you've...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
ESS exporting instead of chargeing
Had this on my boat last season — turned out to be the ESS mode itself. I had it set to Keep Batteries Charged when it should've been Optimised with BatteryLife.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Vicrton Orion IP67 DC-DC Converter 24/12-10A with a Solar Panel
Been mulling this one over as it's relevant to my boat setup, so thought I'd chuck it out here for discussion. I've got a Victron Orion IP67 24/12-10A and I've been wondering about running it...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
2x AOUSK 48V 100Ah V2 Lithium LiFePO4 Server Rack Battery $769 AC/$661 AC+CB
Been running a couple of server rack cells on the boat for about 18 months now and honestly the brand matters less than the BMS communication quality once you're trying to integrate properly with...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Fogstar Drift vs second-hand server rack cells — is the price gap actually worth it for a boat install?
@DougPearce boat install changes the calculus significantly for me. Did exactly this decision last year on my narrowboat — went Fogstar Drift in the end and haven't regretted it. The thing with...
in On a Budget 4 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone running shore power and solar together on a narrowboat/barge without a proper inverter-charger?
Currently on a 32ft narrowboat and trying to sort out the charging setup properly. Got 400W of Renogy panels on the roof feeding into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30, which works a treat when we're...
in Q&A 5 months ago
Renogy 40A MPPT vs Victron 75/15 for a 200W panel setup — worth the price jump?
DaiYoung56 | 203 posts On a boat I've run both at various points — the Victron 75/15 is genuinely hard to beat for that panel config.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 1