Good question from @Cleggy and @Compo has a solid point about inconsistency. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — what's your low-voltage cutoff set to on the Fogstar?
Right, I'll try to fill in the blanks since everyone's posts seem to be doing a disappearing act! 😄
For anyone confused by Victron's DESS categories — Green is essentially "free" energy...
Really interesting thread — been watching this one closely as I run a Quattro on my motorhome and keep it as emergency backup at home too.
@FogstarFan's point about BMS comms is worth digging into...
Really useful thread this — I've actually got a SmartShunt 500A on my motorhome leisure bank and separately a basic battery monitor on the starter battery, and I'd say keeping them separate is the...
Really useful thread, this one. Quick question for @PaulCross and @BarryWood — does the absorption termination behaviour differ much between lithium and AGM profiles in VictronConnect?
@ExPostie86 worth also checking whether the weather data provider Victron uses on the backend has had an outage — it's happened before and just resolves itself after a day or two without you...
@ExFirefighter raises the exact right question actually — use case is everything here.
For my motorhome setup I keep a dedicated emergency backup bank completely isolated from the main leisure...
Really useful thread this — following closely as I've got a similar winter charging dilemma with my motorhome setup.
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: have you checked your AC input current limit...
@CliveBaker makes a fair point on UKCA/CE, but I'd add — does anyone know how this might ripple through to firmware updates and cloud services for kit we've already bought?
I've got a Victron...
Really good points from @JimKelly and @SimonKelly already. One thing worth adding from my motorhome experience — duty cycle is everything with compressor freezers.
Really useful thread this — just went through almost the same process on my motorhome last spring, swapping tired leisure AGMs for a Fogstar Drift 200Ah setup.
One thing nobody's mentioned yet:...
Good timing on this thread — I had almost exactly this scenario play out in my motorhome last winter when the BMS hard-tripped and killed everything including the heating.
@Taffy genuinely torn on this one myself. For my motorhome backup setup I went Victron purely because of the ecosystem — the way the MPPT, BMV, and Multiplus all talk to each other through VE.Bus...
@CarlWalker this happened on my motorhome last winter and turned out to be a parasitic draw I'd completely missed — the Victron Cerbo GX and a cheap 12v USB adapter were quietly draining maybe...
@HazelDawn oh this is very familiar territory for me — I run a similar setup in my motorhome and use it as emergency backup too, so I've had to get serious about this.
Few things that made a real...
