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Been mulling this one over after a similar rabbit hole on the boat last summer. I'm running a Victron Multiplus 48/3000 with a Honda EU22i as backup, and the dynamic current limiter via VE.Bus is...

@CarlWalker this rings a bell from when I rewired my own narrowboat setup last autumn. After a firmware jump on Venus OS Large, my Cerbo GX completely lost its head about anything on the CAN-bus —...

Del | Posts: 2,156 | Joined: 2017 Boat life taught me hard lessons about cheap BMS boards. Had an unbranded unit fail silently on a 12V house bank — no fault signal, no cell balancing, just...

Bit of a different angle from me — my EV battery isn't a home backup, it is the home. Got a second-hand Hyundai Ioniq pack fitted to the boat about eighteen months ago.

Del | 891 posts @KateMitchell73 @BoatMick has already covered the cold Voc spike, so I won't retread that. What I will say — from bitter experience on my boat — is that "overcomping" the...

Had a similar head-scratcher on my narrowboat setup. The bit people often miss is that bypassing the AC output entirely defeats the UPS functionality — which on a boat (or van) is actually one of...

What @Davo79 said about the panels is spot on, and it actually took me a while to wrap my head around that when I first set up my boat system. The bit that clicked it for me was realising the...

Same trap caught me on the boat. Spent three months researching battery chemistries when I should've just grabbed a decent Victron setup and started learning hands-on.