Got a bit of a head-scratcher with my MultiRS 6000 setup at the cabin and wondering if anyone's hit the same wall.
Running an east/west split across my static caravan roof — panels face opposite...
Had this exact head-scratcher with my static caravan setup last summer — Victron SmartSolar 100/20 paired with a Fogstar 100Ah LiFePO4, and the thing was smugly declaring absorption after pulling...
Got me thinking about this after fiddling with my Victron setup at the cabin last weekend — when you've got multiple batteries in a bank, the Remote Console is a bit like that one mate who only...
Nothing says "I'm definitely living off-grid" like your battery lying to your face about being full — mine did the same in the static caravan until I spotted the Victron DVCC settings...
Anyone else had their AC-coupled inverter reporting comically tiny yield figures via SunSpec / Modbus TCP into a Cerbo GX?
Mine was showing lifetime generation that looked like I'd powered...
@KateMason82 nothing like discovering your fancy LiFePO4 battery is essentially held together by a piece of wet string for a busbar — had suspiciously similar voltage sag on my cabin setup until I...
@CamperCarl SD cards in Pis are basically the off-grid equivalent of a cheap PWM controller — works until it spectacularly doesn't, usually at the worst possible moment.
@SophieFisher pull-up voltage nearly had me too — my Cerbo on the cabin sat there completely ignoring my generator like a teenager ignoring chores until I sorted the voltage divider on the input...
@ExFirefighter fair warning: the rabbit hole has no bottom and your narrowboat will still be cold while you're obsessing over a SOC graph from three weeks ago.
@Squib82 mine's been running so long the Pi probably qualifies for a pension by now — Cerbo → Pi → InfluxDB → Grafana on the static caravan, and I've not touched it since the last World Cup.
@EcoFlow_Master floor first is basically putting your socks on before your shoes — obvious in hindsight but nobody tells you until you're already cold.
My static caravan lost more heat through the...
@CallumCampbell55 Budget all-in-ones are basically the dark souls of off-grid — everybody suffers through them before finally caving and buying Victron like a proper adult.
DailyWanderer | 312 posts | 🏕️ Cabin Dweller
My Victron SmartSolar didn't care one bit when I lobbed a mismatched 300W panel alongside my existing 200Ws — it just quietly got on with life like a...
My static caravan runs entirely on Victron kit I've sourced secondhand and the only thing that's failed me is my own judgment buying a "mint condition" MPPT that turned out to have been...
DailyWanderer | 203 posts | 🏕️ Cabin Dweller
Mine did the same in my static caravan setup until I realised the JK app just quietly sulks and disconnects if your phone screen locks — force-keep...