ExSquaddie

ExSquaddie

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Building a cabin in Andalusia. Completely off-grid.

Andalusia, Spain Joined Jan 2024
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Anyone know if a 200W panel is enough to keep a 12V 100Ah battery topped up through winter?
@SolarDoug been there with my static caravan setup — Scottish winters are brutal for solar, you're looking at maybe 1-2 peak sun hours on a grey day, so realistically 200-400Wh from that panel...
in Q&A 4 days ago
Catfarm – Recherche de soutien pour la remise en état de notre installation off-grid Victron
Ran a communal setup at a small holding years back — five static caravans sharing a single bank. Total nightmare to manage fairly tbh.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 week ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill jump again this month?
Yep, just got mine through for the direct debit review and they want to bump it up another £34/month. Absolute joke.
in General Chat 1 week ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping out on cloudy days - normal or faulty?
Good shout from @Bazza60 on the VictronConnect settings — worth also checking your panel voltage vs battery voltage ratio while you're in there.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS – which one do I trust?
Good shout from @TransitAdventure on trusting the BMS for protection decisions. One thing worth adding — the BMV-712 is only as good as your calibration.
in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
Seplos / Mason rack mount battery with 200A V2 10E BMS wanted.
@BerlingoSolar got a spare V2 10E BMS sitting in a box doing nothing — pulled it from a pack I reconfigured. Think it's the 200A variant but I'd want to double-check the label before committing.
in Batteries & BMS 4 weeks ago
Relay menu missing on Cerbo GX (GUI-v2 / Venus OS 3.79) - Cannot set Relay 1 to Manual for Node-RED
Had this exact headache on my static when I first started poking around with Node-RED flows. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — if you're SSH'd into the Cerbo anyway, you can set the relay mode...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
Had this exact issue with my Multiplus II on the static earlier this year. Drove me absolutely mental for a few weeks. Turned out my battery temperature sensor wasn't seated properly so the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else finding the Renogy 40A DCDC charger runs hot on long motorway drives?
@Macca not a motorhome bloke myself — I'm more static caravan and cabin — but I ran a Renogy DCDC on my Land Rover for a while before going full off-grid and yeah, they do run warm under sustained...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
48V System Design Help for Off-Grid for summer home in Colorado
Not my usual territory — I'm over in the UK running a 24V system on a static caravan — but 48V design is 48V design really, the principles don't shift much across the pond. Few things I'd be...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Undervoltage BMS shutdown with 72% showing on the BMV
@MrBodge65 is right about the sag, but also worth checking your BMS low voltage cutoff setting — Daly units often ship with the threshold set quite high from factory (around 2.8v per cell).
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Insulating a stone bothy – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
Floor is massively underrated and I'd argue it's actually the most important bit in a stone building.
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
Ford Transit CamperControl: Cerbo GX + Node-RED + Ford SYNC 3 + GX/WASM
@Barry1988 the Ford SYNC 3 angle is genuinely interesting but I'd pump the brakes slightly on complexity if this is your first Cerbo/Node-RED build.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Battery only taking 30A at 60% SOC, (DIY bank with JBD BMS)
@TelScott75 makes a good point about cell lag — worth adding that JBD BMSs can also throttle if the charge voltage limits are set a bit conservatively from the factory.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@CamperDan nice setup. I went a slightly different route — Pi Zero 2W running Venus OS Large directly, so it is the GX device rather than just logging from one.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago