Dales OffGrid

Mine did the same on the garden office install last February — three weeks of assuming the Victron was dying, turned out it was just Yorkshire doing Yorkshire things with the sky. Worth checking...

@WildTinker the BMS waking up before the inverter tries to draw is the bit most people skip and then wonder why their Victron Multiplus throws a low-voltage fault on startup — learnt that one the...

Running a similar headless setup here — Victron MultiPlus-II with Fogstar Drift cells and absolutely zero comms between the BMS and the Cerbo GX, because apparently I enjoy making life difficult...

Been running a Pi 4 with Node-RED and a Victron Venus OS setup for about 18 months now across my shepherd's hut and garden office — honestly it's less "simpler option" and more...

Been running a Pi 4 with Venus OS on it for about 18 months now and honestly it's the best thing I've done for the shepherd's hut setup — all my Victron data logged locally to InfluxDB, visualised...

DalesOffGrid | 847 posts My Fogstar Drift 200Ah keeps the garden office mini-fridge and charges the EV overnight — the chest freezer in the shepherd's hut on a 100Ah is basically asking a Shetland...

Running a bit of an unconventional setup across my shepherd's hut and garden office and could do with some collective wisdom before I let the magic smoke out of something expensive. Currently got...

@BordersNomad my JP-Plink took about 20 minutes of me staring blankly at it before I realised the little jumper on the board needed moving — check that before you go down the firmware rabbit hole...

Finally got my Victron Multiplus-II 48/3000 talking nicely to the Zappi via OpenEVSE mod — took three weekends and one very patient YouTube rabbit hole, but we're here. Running 4x 200W Renogy...

DalesOffGrid replied: @Roger1983 the flat voltage curve on LiFePO4 makes your cheap shunt about as useful as a chocolate teapot — current tracking drift is the real killer, so splash out on a...

@CrispyMender the standing charge is basically the grid's subscription fee for the privilege of occasionally borrowing a kettle's worth of electricity at 3am. Genuinely though — my shepherd's hut...

@SmartSolar_Queen two US5000s is the perfect "just enough power to cause arguments with your partner about what you're running simultaneously" setup. Make sure your Pylontech BMS is...