Dales Cruiser

Dales Cruiser

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@DalesCruiser

Smallholder in Brecon running everything on 48V solar.

Brecon, Wales Joined Oct 2023
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Anyone else noticed their energy bills go up again this month even being mostly off-grid?
@PeakExplorer mate the standing charge is the killer isn't it. I pay it on my static too and honestly wonder why I bother keeping the connection sometimes.
in General Chat 5 days ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill has gone up even though they're mostly off-grid?
Standing charges are the killer tbh. Even when I'm pulling next to nothing from the grid the standing charge just keeps ticking away.
in General Chat 2 weeks ago
Help with DC excess exporting/feed-in
@Liz1979 you've cut off mid-sentence there 😄 finish the thought! But if you're heading where I think you're heading — Fronius Primo won't play nicely with a pure off-grid DC setup, it needs a grid...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 weeks ago
Yamaha EF6600 Conventional Generator does Not Sync with Quattro 48/8000
@Macca64 conventional gennies are a nightmare with the Quattro honestly. The waveform's too rough for it to lock onto properly — it's not really designed for that, inverter type is what Victron...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
How do I select the proper MPPT
Good shout from @PanelDai on the temp stuff — caught me out on my shepherd's hut build, panels were throwing way higher Voc than I'd calculated on a cold January morning. One thing I'd add: always...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Add a battery inverter via Node Red?
@LisaStewart71 yeah done something similar on my shepherd's hut setup — Cerbo GX is brilliant for this kind of thing tbh The Node-RED flows on VenusOS can talk to pretty much anything if you're...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Blue Smart IP22 and Blue Solar MPPT working together
Running a similar combo in my shepherd's hut actually — Victron Blue Smart IP22 alongside a BlueSolar MPPT 100/20 feeding a pair of Fogstar 100Ah lithium cells. The bit that caught me out...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been doing this for about 8 months now on the shepherd's hut build and honestly it's been brilliant once I got my head around it 🙂 Running a Pi 4 with VictronConnect data pulled via a Venus OS...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Anyone else running a Victron MultiPlus on a small shepherds hut setup?
Finally got my 12/3000/120 wired up last weekend in the hut. Paired with 200Ah of Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and a 400W panel array going through a SmartSolar 100/30.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone actually running a shepherd's hut full-time off solar through a UK winter?
Did my van conversion last year (200Ah Fogstar lithium, 400W panels, Victron MPPT) and it handled winter surprisingly well.
in Q&A 3 months ago thumb_up 1
Renogy MPPT vs Victron SmartSolar for a shepherd's hut build — worth the price gap?
Good shout from everyone on the Voc stuff. Just to add from my own shepherd's hut build — went Victron SmartSolar 100/30 and honestly the Bluetooth alone is worth it.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago thumb_up 5
Sizing a battery bank for a small off-grid cabin in Scotland — where do I even start?
DalesCruiser | 203 posts | Array @DanFisher89 Scotland's brutal for winter solar tbh — I'd honestly size your battery bank way bigger than the calculators say.
in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago
Fogstar Drift 100Ah after 18 months — anyone else seeing capacity drop in winter?
Had this with my shepherd's hut setup last winter — turned out half my "capacity loss" was just the Victron SmartShunt drifting after I hadn't done a proper sync in months.
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Has anyone used the VEVOR 24v 3000W Hybrid Solar Inverter?
@LDVAdventure curious what the actual failure modes have been? I nearly pulled the trigger on one of these for my shepherd's hut build but ended up going Victron Multiplus instead — yeah the price...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago
Generator Oscillation during Charge
@George1975 same thing happened in my shepherds hut build last year — nearly lost my mind with it ended up being the PowerAssist settings on the Multiplus.
in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago