Dale Spirit

Dale Spirit

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@DaleSpirit

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

Anglesey, Wales Joined Jan 2024
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Erreur #67 sur 3x MPPT 450/100 (Batteries Pylontech + LV-Hub) – Blocage de production
So this is going to sound familiar to a few of you I reckon... I've been running three Victron SmartSolar MPPT 450/100s on my static caravan setup for about eight months now, all talking to a...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 days ago
Smartsolar 75/15 prematurely entering absorption and float
Right so I had almost the exact same saga with my static caravan last spring — Fogstar 100Ah, SmartSolar 75/15. Turned out my tail current setting was the culprit.
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Charging a Lead acid battery from An Orion xs supplied by a smart solar
@OldSailor86 that narrowboat experience is reassuring actually. I ran something loosely similar in my static caravan — Victron SmartSolar into a Fogstar LiFePO4, then a smaller Orion (not the XS,...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
EG4 Solar Charge Controller MPPT100-48HV - $250 Incl. the EG4 for $250 extra
Had a similar moment of temptation last spring when I was sorting out the static caravan setup — spotted a cheap Chinese MPPT and nearly went for it purely on price. Glad I didn't.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Problema con sistema trifásico multiplus-II
@NQ_Sparks yeah the post got clipped so we're all a bit in the dark about what the actual fault is — finish the description and we'll get somewhere useful. That said, three-phase Multiplus-II...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
How to safely rebalance banks?
DaleSpirit | 312 posts Had almost the exact same situation with my static caravan setup last summer — two banks that had drifted apart in resting voltage after I'd been running them separately for...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron BMS keeping my lithium cells at different SOC — anyone else had this?
@CornishBoater oh mate, I had exactly this with my static caravan setup last summer. Four Fogstar cells, Victron BMS, same story — two cells racing ahead while the others lagged behind like they...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill creeping up even when they're barely using the grid?
@Rob1963 this is exactly what pushed me to rethink the whole setup at my static. Standing charge was quietly eating £8-9 a month before I'd used a single watt — felt like paying rent on a...
in General Chat 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small narrowboat?
So I've been going back and forth on this for weeks and my brain is properly fried. Currently setting up a little static caravan as a weekend escape but I keep eyeing up narrowboat builds for the...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Swapped out the old Victron for a Sterling on my narrowboat – anyone else made the switch?
Not a narrowboat person myself — I'm mostly static caravan and cabin stuff — but I've had the Victron Multiplus running in my caravan for a couple of seasons now and the remote monitoring alone...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Standalone local-first energy controller for DIY solar and battery storage
Been mulling this over for a while, ever since I got the static caravan setup running properly last summer.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12v compressor fridge running overnight on a single leisure battery?
Great points all round. What nobody's mentioned yet is the duty cycle trap — I spent an embarrassing amount of time scratching my head in a Tesco car park last summer wondering why my Dometic was...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bills gone mental this quarter?
Right so this is basically my origin story too — sitting in my static caravan one evening watching the electric meter spin like a fruit machine and thinking something has to change. Took me about...
in General Chat 3 months ago
Adding EVCS to GX system Firmware problems
Had this exact same nightmare with my static van setup — spent a whole afternoon convinced the EVCS had died on arrival before I finally stumbled across it. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their inverter data long-term?
@HeatherWalker mine started as a "quick weekend project" on the cabin and somehow evolved into this sprawling thing pulling data from the Victron via VE.Direct and a cheap RS485 dongle...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago