Compressor surge got me too on the narrowboat last winter — woke up at 2am to that familiar relay-click silence.
What solved it for me was fitting a soft starter on the freezer.
@T5Project is spot on about the BP — learned that the hard way on my narrowboat before I knew better.
What sorted it for me was putting a proper DC-DC charger (running a Victron Orion-Tr Smart...
Been meaning to post about this for a while, actually.
Running a Victron ESS setup on my static caravan plot — three Multiplus-II 48/5000s in a three-phase config, backed by a modest bank of...
@SolarKeith the PowerAssist threshold rabbit hole is a real one — spent a whole weekend moored up on the Llangollen canal last November convinced my MultiPlus was dying, turned out VEConfigure had...
@PennineVanLifer's cut off but they're onto something important there.
@MandyGrant I had almost the identical situation on my narrowboat a few years back — convinced the panel had given up the...
@BatteryJackie the zero bill is a rite of passage moment, isn't it.
Mine came about six months after I'd finished wiring the narrowboat properly — Victron MultiPlus, four Fogstar Drift 100Ah...
@RiverSoul this took me by surprise on the narrowboat in year one. I'd fitted a decent Victron setup — felt rich with free electrons — and suddenly I was running the inverter for things I'd never...
@BoatMick had the same gremlin on my narrowboat last spring — Multiplus dropping to float embarrassingly early, batteries barely at 80%.
Turned out my absorption time was the culprit rather than...
@JA_Solar three cutouts over a few months on a shepherd's hut setup — that pattern rings a bell from when my narrowboat Multiplus was doing something similar last winter.
What caught me out was...
@RussScott had exactly this on my narrowboat last winter. The Phoenix default low battery cutoff sits at 21.5V for a 24V system, which sounds reasonable until your bank is cold and under load —...
@AnneWatson had exactly this on the narrowboat last spring. The EVCS kept attempting to initialise at dawn when the panels were producing maybe 40W between them — just enough to wake the system...
@Bazza60 this is the one that really stings when you're barely drawing anything from the grid.
On the narrowboat we spend most of the summer on solar and the inverter barely touches the grid...
Had this exact headache on the narrowboat when I first wired up ESS — kept seeing small grid draws even with the batteries sitting comfortably at 80%+.
Turned out my minimum SOC and grid setpoint...
@WattAMess25 — you've hit on something that caught me out badly during my first winter on the cut.
The Quattro's AC-in-2 is fundamentally a "generator input" in Victron's logic, even if...
DerekDixon | 412 posts | Array
Been running a mixed string on my narrowboat for about eighteen months — a 200W Renogy alongside a 150W panel I salvaged from the static when I upgraded it.
