Davo51

Absolutely noticed this in the van — it's like someone flipped a switch around mid-February and suddenly my Victron BMV-712 stopped showing that slightly grim face every morning. Running a 200Ah...

Had almost the exact same drama with my van build last spring. Running a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 and kept getting those frustrating overload trips whenever I fired up my induction hob — even...

Been doing exactly this for about 18 months now in the van build. Running a Pi 4 with a VE.Direct cable straight into my Victron SmartShunt, feeding data into InfluxDB and pulling it all up...

Been scratching my head over something similar with my van build — though obviously single-phase rather than three — and I reckon this rabbit hole goes deeper than most people realise. I'm running...

Saw my neighbour's bill last week — she's on a standard tariff and nearly fell off her chair. £340 for the quarter and she lives alone in a two-bed terrace.

@FormerMachanic74 raises a solid point about old motors — been through exactly this with my van conversion. What sorted it for me was digging into the Multiplus settings via VictronConnect and...

Davo51 | 213 posts Van life here so I'm chasing the sun a bit more than you static folk, but even parked up in Cornwall last December I was barely scraping 300Wh from my 200W roof panel on clear...

Davo51 | 1,203 posts | 🚐 Van Dweller Ran a similar experiment on the van build — two mystery-brand 200W panels alongside a pair of Renogy ones, all feeding the same Victron MPPT.

@PanelLouise this resonates deeply with my van conversion journey. I spent a whole winter agonising over whether my 400Ah Fogstar Drift bank could handle sustained 16A draws without the BMS...