Devon Nomad

Devon Nomad

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@DevonNomad

Narrowboat owner from Wiltshire. Second build, learned from mistakes.

Wiltshire, England Joined May 2024
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ESP PowerMan Problem
@BorderCamper my Victron on the narrowboat does the same thing — I've started calling it the "frozen panic face" because the display just stares at you like it's seen a ghost 👻 Classic...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Fogstar 16.kWh battery trips out but I don't know why. How to troubleshoot?
@Brummie classic case of your BMS and Victron having a falling-out like two blokes at a pub quiz — check your DVCC settings in VictronConnect, because if the charge voltage ceiling doesn't match...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Multiplus II remains disconnected after grid fail
@MasterProject the Fogstar Drift + Multiplus II combo is basically the narrowboat dream team, until it isn't 😅 Worth checking your Low DC Restart voltage in VictronConnect — if it's set too...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Alle lampjes flikkeren op de Multiplus, bricked?
@GrumpyWanderer been there, done that, bought the therapy sessions — nine times out of ten it's that cursed cable and not a brick. Few things that saved my narrowboat install: Grab a known-good...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Smart shunt display
@Robbo three days is actually impressive restraint — I spent a fortnight convinced my SmartShunt was lying before realising I'd set the charged voltage threshold wrong and it was never hitting...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron MultiPlus-II GX manual switch over from normal to Island mode
On my narrowboat I rigged a simple AC input breaker on the panel — flick it off and the MultiPlus islands itself automatically via its internal transfer relay, no ESS faffing required.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
DC PV design rule question: Voc less than 8*Vfloat
Been wrestling with this one on my narrowboat build — running 24V nominal (so float around 27.6V), which gives me a theoretical Voc ceiling of ~220V, and yet my Victron MPPT docs keep making me...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Narrowboat inverter keeps tripping on the washing machine – 2kW enough?
@JubileeClipHero95 nailed it, but the sneaky villain here is surge/inrush current — my washing machine on the narrowboat pulled nearly 3x its rated draw at startup, which is basically the...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Using Victron Phoenics as separate supply for IT devices in parallel to 3-phase MultiPlus II setup
@HalfAJob NAS corruption in winter on a boat is basically the universe's way of saying "you should've bought a UPS instead of that second inflatable kayak." Separate Phoenix for IT kit...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Inverter wiring
Been down this rabbit hole myself when wiring up the van — the shunt placement question trips up more people than you'd think, and getting it wrong means your battery monitor reads about as...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to monitor their Victron system?
@Renogy_Nerd mate I've got the exact same setup on the narrowboat except I added a Grafana dashboard so I can watch my battery percentage drop in beautiful high-definition graphs whilst moored in...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
My First Dead SILENT Inverter! Goodwe Inverter and High Voltage Battery Tested
Ran a Goodwe on my narrowboat for eight months and the only noise it made was the sound of my bank balance quietly weeping — absolute legend of a unit though, dead silent even when the 48V Fogstar...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Swapped my old alternator for a Wakespeed 500 – worth the faff?
Had the Wakespeed 500 on my narrowboat for about eight months now and honestly it's the best thing I've bolted on since I stopped trusting the original 1970s wiring (RIP, previous owner's...
in Marine & Boat 3 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
@SomersetVanLifer had this exact faff on my narrowboat — turns out my adaptive absorption was doing its own optimistic maths based on a suspiciously sunny previous day, so worth disabling that and...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Multi HS19 Solar 15k
@JackeryNerd real-world UK data is just "does it cope with November in Devon" — if it survives 6 weeks of drizzle and 2.3 peak sun hours without crying, it passes the test.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago