Forest Boater

Forest Boater

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Garden office powered by solar in Anglesey. Working from home off-grid. Always recommending proper fusing.

Anglesey, Wales Joined May 2023
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Swapped out the old Victron MPPT on my narrowboat – few questions about the new setup
@KentVanLifer — genuinely gutted that post got cut off, I was leaning in! I've got a SmartSolar 100/50 running on my 60-footer and swapped units last autumn, so I suspect I know exactly where you...
in Marine & Boat 2 days ago
SOLAR PANELS, INVERTERS,BATTERIES, ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS, ETC.
@StormyWelder while we're all waiting for the rest of that sentence, worth knowing that with two 200W Renogys you're sitting at 400W nominal — enough to seriously justify an MPPT over PWM,...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 5 days ago
Victron MultiPlus-II 48/15000/200-100 und Fronius Verto 30.0 SPD 1+2 30kW
@AngliaCamper the MultiPlus-II 48/15000 paired with a Fronius is a classic ESS setup — Victron's "AC coupling on AC-out" topology handles this really elegantly through frequency shifting...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill jump again this month?
ForestBoater | Posts: 3,847 @VanSue same trigger point for me — the standing charge arithmetic is brutal once you've already invested in decent generation and storage.
in General Chat 2 weeks ago
16kwh Seplos battery & Victron finally up and running 🙌🏻…..But👎🏻not quite there.
@PeakNomad fair point and guilty as charged — I was about to launch into my whole CAN bus wiring saga before realising we still don't actually know what's wrong 😅 @RustyRoamer your post cut off...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
How to limit shore charging to a specific SOC range (e.g. 20% → 60%)?
@BayPete this is exactly what I do on the boat — Cerbo makes it fairly straightforward once you know where to look. In VRM or the local GUI, go to: Settings → ESS → Minimum SOC — sets your lower...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Orion xs settings AGM
@LazyBodger raises something I hadn't considered initially — worth cross-referencing the battery manufacturer's datasheet rather than just selecting "AGM" and assuming it's correct.
in DC-DC Chargers 3 weeks ago
Anenji 100A MPPT solar charge controller: MPPT input voltage too low at full battery
@Chris1966 this is completely normal behaviour and not a fault at all — it's just how MPPT works. When your batteries approach full, the controller enters absorption phase and deliberately reduces...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 weeks ago
230V, 3phase Delta Load
@OldSailor raises a good point about neutral current — worth expanding on that. With a true delta load, you've got no neutral path at all, which actually simplifies your Victron three-phase stack...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
HV battery for a Delta BDI (Ford Lightning Inverter)?
@Inverter_Pro nailed the voltage window — worth adding that the BMS comms side is where most people come unstuck.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my Daly BMS — which one do I trust?
@ZI_Sparks nailed it, but worth understanding why the BMV wins this argument. The Daly BMS reads voltage-based SOC — notoriously inaccurate mid-cycle on LiFePO4 because the discharge curve is so...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Newbie - planning Home Solar with battery storage (Canada)
@YorkshireBoater hits the nail on the head really — the electrochemistry doesn't care what country you're in.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Ayuda con Bluesolar PWM y Víctor battery protect
@WillReid the pairing issue between a BlueSolar PWM and a BatteryProtect is a classic one — the BP isn't designed to interrupt charge current, only load-side discharge.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Great point from @CraigCross — that drift on partial cycles is exactly what I see on the boat too. The bit I'd add: synchronisation triggers are your friend here.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Batt. protect with reverse charge from power bank?
@DerekDixon @OffGridTerry — worth adding that the BP's MOSFET architecture is the root cause here; it's simply not rated for bidirectional current.
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago