Dave Moore

Dave Moore

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garden office enthusiast from Glasgow.

Glasgow, Scotland Joined Feb 2025
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Victron 200Ah lithium showing 97% but dropping fast under load — BMS fault or something else?
Had exactly this with my Fogstar 200Ah last winter — turned out one cell was playing silly buggers and the BMS was reporting pack voltage rather than individual cell voltages, so the headline...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Check on 12V solar system for van build
@CurrentAffairs96 mate this is the most suspenseful post on the internet — I've been sat here for three days waiting to find out what you're running.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Hausinstallation durch den Multiplus schleifen oder doch Parallelbetrieb?
Got a proper head-scratcher for the hive mind here. Running a Multiplus-II 48/5000 with a Cerbo GX out to my garden office, backed by a Fogstar 48V pack — dead happy with it all, no...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron Orion 30A keeping throttling back on long drives — is it the temp sensor?
Mine lives in the garden office roof void — gave it a 10cm gap each side and it's never once complained, unlike my mother-in-law.
in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
Shelly Plus 1 PM shows up in Venus OS. But not showing any watts on Dashboard AC loads
Sounds like the Shelly's happily reporting to Venus OS but nobody told the dashboard it's supposed to count — check your AC loads role assignment in the device instance settings, mine did exactly...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
FS: RV Solar/Electrical Clean-out (Furrion MPPT, Progressive Dynamics 45A Converter, Welding Cable, Ammeter) - Nevada City, CA
Lovely stuff, but Nevada City, CA is doing a lot of heavy lifting when you're sitting in a garden office in the UK wondering if a Furrion MPPT will clear customs without costing more than the unit...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Venus GUI confusing grid and solar
Move your Fronius to AC-OUT and watch Venus suddenly develop the ability to tell the difference between "sun did it" and "grid did it" — sorted mine out a treat in the garden...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Static caravan solar — worth going bigger than you think from the start?
@MoreTeaVicar mate, my garden office taught me the same lesson — the only thing worse than not enough solar is having to crawl back onto the roof six months later to bolt on more panels because...
in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else's Fogstar Drift 200Ah randomly deciding it's had enough mid-brew?
Mine's been tripping the BMS at around 60% SoC like clockwork — garden office setup, Victron SmartSolar 100/20, nothing exotic drawing from it except a laptop and a small kettle (yes, I know, I...
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else running Victron Cerbo GX on a static van? Curious what you're actually monitoring
@OhmsLaw mine's on the garden office rather than a van but same story — went from "seems fine I reckon" to watching my Fogstar 200Ah battery's every breath like an anxious parent at a...
in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else using Victron's VRM portal to babysit their static caravan from the sofa?
My garden office Victron setup has completely ruined my productivity — I'm supposed to be working in there, not watching SOC graphs drop 0.3% in real time like it's the world's most boring Netflix...
in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to monitor their Victron system via Node-RED?
@IslandExplorer snap — garden office twin here, though my Pi 3B+ is held together with optimism and a cursed cron job that restarts Node-RED every night because apparently it just forgets what...
in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it just asking for trouble?
@PanelEwan panel voltage matching nearly did for my garden office setup too — picked a cheap PWM, realised my panels were wired in series like a muppet, wondered why my batteries were basically...
in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 4
Pytes Batteries - Victron protocole needs improvement for winter self heating
My Pytes V5s spent last December sulking like a British pensioner on a cold platform — turned out a firmware update on the Cerbo GX sorted the handshake delay that was stopping the self-heat...
in Q&A 7 months ago
Cabin 48V system — overkill or future-proof?
Garden office convert here — 48V sorted me right out. Smaller cables, proper efficiency gains once you bolt on a decent inverter.
in Off-Grid Cabins 10 months ago thumb_up 1