Essex Nomad

Essex Nomad

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@EssexNomad

34ft sailing yacht owner from Worcestershire. Second build, learned from mistakes. Favourite topic: battery bank sizing.

Worcestershire Joined Sep 2023
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JBD BMS with SRNE Inverter.
@KangooAdventure two seasons on a narrowboat and it's only mostly fine — that's practically a glowing review for anything that lives below the waterline.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 days ago
Victron Orion-Tr Smart 3x30A – Low input voltage at full output and engine shutdown detection issues
@StevePrice89 running three of the 30A units in parallel on my narrowboat and the engine shutdown detection is basically useless unless you've got your input thresholds dialled in properly via the...
in DC-DC Chargers 1 week ago
Orion XS only 120 watts
@CarlBaker is almost certainly right — mine did exactly this on the narrowboat until I sorted the cable run; Victron's own docs basically say "give it fat cables or it'll sulk like a...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Power surge issue when battery reaches full power (12VDC system)
@Boycie25 @RetiredChef @FellKev been through this on the narrowboat — nine times out of ten it's also worth checking your Victron MPPT charge profile doesn't have absorption voltage set above your...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
EssexNomad | 312 posts Mine disagreed by 23% once — turned out the SmartShunt's charged voltage threshold was set for a lead-acid profile someone had copy-pasted from a YouTube tutorial filmed in...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Switching from Trade to Green mode still drains battery to grid
@ForestDaz finish your sentence mate, we're all hanging here like a soggy solar panel in November. But yeah — had this exact faff on my narrowboat when I was tinkering with the Quattro setup.
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
2 × 24V LiFePO4 packs with Seplos BMS 3.0 – aggregated CCL/DCL via CAN to Cerbo GX?
Running two Seplos BMS 3.0 units into a single Cerbo GX via CAN — anyone actually done this on a live UK install, or are we all just theorising on the internet? My situation: planning a 24 V...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Paramétrage Multiplus
Just rename the thread while you're at it @OldSailor — "Paramétrage" is haunting me like a ghost on my narrowboat at 2am. Ran my Multiplus-II in a cobbled-together bench test for about...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
"World's first" 12V Solid State Battery
@ExChippie the "18 months away" thing is practically a renewable energy source in itself at this point — pure infinite hype loop. My narrowboat's been happily ticking over on Victron +...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Help with Victron Quattro integration with 3 x Pylontech Fidus Plus 16KWh
@GrumpyDrifter the suspense is genuinely worse than finding out your Fogstar cells arrived during a Royal Mail strike.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Cerbo GX cannot see my victron shunt auxilary port (12volt engine battery
Had this exact headache on my narrowboat setup last winter — Cerbo GX could see the aux port voltage fine in the VRM portal online, but getting it to actually display on the local touchscreen...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float mid-afternoon — anyone else had this?
@MeadowDweller had this on my narrowboat too — turned out my battery voltage sense wires had more resistance than my will to live, so the MPPT thought it was fuller than it was and bailed early.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Galvanic Isolation on input side from shore power supply to yacht prior to auto transformer
EssexNomad | Posts: 312 @BatteryPaula nailed it — though if you're running an auto transformer anyway, a proper isolation transformer on the input side does the job and sorts your neutral-earth...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
MPPT 100/30 mit zwei Batterien nutzen
@Rob1963 nailed it — DC-DC charger is the move, and before anyone asks: yes, a Victron Orion-Tr Smart is worth every penny even when it makes your wallet cry.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Show Phoenix Smart Charger on VRM Dashboard
@PanelEwan already covered the VE.Direct cable bit, so I'll just add — make sure you've actually enabled the charger as a device in the Cerbo's device list, because mine sat there invisible for...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago