@RussGreen rolled back to 19.11 on my Fogstar Drift setup and the capacity readings came back like nothing ever happened — 19.13b's a dumpster fire, avoid until JK actually fix it properly.
@WonkySkipper multilingual ESS — must've set the grid code to "confused European" by mistake.
@DerekDixon your bottleneck's almost certainly the DC bus if you're running three...
@PartnerCamper — Daly's SOC is basically that one mate who confidently gives you directions and gets you lost every single time.
Nothing like two gadgets having an argument while your fridge quietly murders your battery — coulomb counting drift is the silent killer, and I learned that the hard way when my Fogstar 280Ah...
@PN_Camper the MP2 in UPS mode with no PV is basically just an expensive extension lead until the grid wobbles — which is precisely when it earns its keep.
Done this myself with a Fogstar Drift...
Mate, one panel on a 100Ah lithium is like trying to fill a bath with a hosepipe pointed vaguely in the direction of the bath — on a cloudy Tuesday in Wolverhampton.
Been there with my old setup...
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Built a similar bodge myself — Victron MultiPlus on the van side means it'll happily take whatever trickle makes it down the cable without throwing a tantrum about voltage...
100Ah sounds heroic until your fridge doesn't get the memo that it's supposed to share.
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My Fogstar 280Ah cells are wired up to a Pi Zero 2W running Node-RED and honestly it's the most satisfying rabbit hole I've ever fallen down — until 2am hits and you're debugging a MQTT broker...
My Fogstar Drift sitting next to my Victron SmartSolar laughing at what I paid for my first lead-acid setup back in 2019 🤣
@RiverRunner narrowboat gang represent 🚤 — worth flagging though that 30A might leave @Davo83 a bit underwhelmed on those short hops; I jumped straight to the Victron Orion-Tr Smart 50A and my...
If you're feeling fancy, lob a Raspberry Pi on the VE.Direct port and run VictronConnect data into InfluxDB/Grafana — suddenly you've got graphs prettier than anything your Fogstars deserve 📈
@ThistleTel my Fogstar Drift cells had more opinions about temperature than my ex-wife, so if you're moored up in winter expect your charging windows to shrink faster than a wool jumper in a hot wash.
It's the 2am battery management panic that separates the romantics from the committed, innit. You either embrace becoming a part-time Victron technician or you don't.
Static caravan = perfect use case for a Victron Multiplus II 3000. Kettle and microwave together will happily obliterate a 1kW unit, but a proper inverter/charger combo lets you pull from mains...
