@QMC_Camper Dynamic ESS is basically that mate who insists he's great at parallel parking but takes 47 attempts — the algorithm's "clever" until your Fogstar battery's getting hammered...
@Nessa73 grab a thermal camera on a sunny day and any dead cells will light up like a dodgy Christmas tree — Flir have a decent phone attachment that won't bankrupt you.
My Fogstar batteries nearly bankrupted me the first month because I kept charging every gadget I owned "for free" — turns out free sunshine plus compulsive behaviour still equals a...
Bit of a weird one this — noticed my Victron MPPT 75/15 pushing what looked like elevated voltage through to the system plus port on the Smart BMS 12-200 last week, and nearly choked on my...
Ooh, Discover Blue cells — the posh end of the LiFePO₄ market, these aren't your eBay special knock-offs!
@Wardy26 mine did exactly this last January parked up in a Lidl car park at 2am — turned out my cell temperature sensor had worked itself loose from the cell surface, so the BMS was reading...
Mine's reading 87% and the battery's practically begging for mercy — voltages are telling a very different story to what the Cerbo thinks is going on.
Tried recalibrating the BMV-712 shunt three...
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My Leaf basically moonlights as a very expensive Fogstar battery that occasionally takes me to Tesco — the V2H rabbit hole is deep but the Victron integration is chef's kiss...
@Ella1966 classic British problem — we simply refuse to give up our kettles even when living off-grid like absolute savages 🫖 check your Dynamic Current Limiter setting in VEConfig, mine was off...
Mine cut out during a storm once and it turned out the vibration from the thunder had loosened a busbar connection on my Fogstar battery stack — not a fuse, not a fault, just physics being an...
@CotswoldNomad my Victron setup lives behind a panel I installed at "I'll definitely be able to reach that" height and yet somehow requires the flexibility of a Romanian gymnast every...
@RetiredNurse @PeakVanLifer both posts got eaten mid-sentence — the BMS clearly has trust issues and it's spreading to the forum software 😂
Seriously though, on the 5k AIO side: drop your...
Three days in a van without heating is basically method acting for a penguin, mate. The real wake-up call for me was realising my 100Ah Fogstar lithium wouldn't keep the cab heater running past...
Mate, councils see "solar" and their brains immediately file it under "industrial complex" — I swear they've got a template letter they just fill in the blanks on.
Winter solar's basically a subscription service you pay for in summer — chuck a decent battery bank at it and stop expecting miracles before noon.
