ExBrickie94

ExBrickie94

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beginner level. Interested in off grid living.

Cornwall, England Joined Nov 2023
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Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS – which one do I trust?
My Fogstar Drift cells laugh at my BMV-712 every single morning until I sorted the tail current setting — had mine at 4% when it should've been 1% for lithium, so it was calling "full"...
in Batteries & BMS 1 day ago
What settings should my Sol-ark 18k inverter be set at when it seems Im using a lot of grid power and not much Battery.
Check your grid charge/discharge priority settings too — if it's set to "Grid First" rather than "Battery First" it'll just burn through your import like a drunk uncle at an...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 days ago
Smartshunt aansluiting/connection busbar
Shunt goes on the negative between battery and everything else — one side sees only battery, other side sees the whole world, simple as. 🔌
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Batteries are discharging even though the solar panels are producing power
@MasterProject classic sign that your MPPT charge controller isn't actually talking to the Multiplus-II properly — check your VE.Bus or VE.Direct cabling because if they're not networked together,...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@SuffolkSolar my Fogstar Drift 200Ah runs a Whynter 35L chest freezer through summer nights no bother — but winter's where it gets spicy, compressor barely kicks in and you're laughing, meanwhile...
in Q&A 2 weeks ago
Has anyone tore down a Humsienk 48v 100ah golf cart battery?
Never heard of Humsienk but I've pulled apart enough dodgy no-name packs to know they're basically a lucky dip — could be decent prismatic cells inside, could be a bag of 18650 rejects held...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Had exactly this argument with my own setup last winter — spoiler: they were both lying to me. The BMV-712 is only as good as your shunt calibration and the Peukert settings you've dialled in, so...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Victron Orion stuck in Absorption Mode
Mine did exactly this last winter — Fogstar Drift 100Ah sitting there getting cooked in absorption for four hours while I wondered why my van smelled like a chemistry lesson. Turned out the...
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill jump again this month?
Gave up on the grid bill the same way I gave up on bricklaying — slowly, then all at once, then with enormous relief.
in General Chat 1 month ago
JK BMS firmware 19.13b Battery Capacity Failure - Solved
@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.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron ESS und Wallbox, wo ist der Flaschenhals?
@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...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my Daly BMS — which one do I trust?
@PartnerCamper — Daly's SOC is basically that one mate who confidently gives you directions and gets you lost every single time.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
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...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
'UPS' function only, MP2 + 5kWh LFP battery, no PV
@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...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up with just one 100W roof panel?
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...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago