Forest Jenny

Forest Jenny

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@ForestJenny

Garden office powered by solar in Fife. Working from home off-grid. Runs a YouTube channel about off-grid living.

Fife, Scotland Joined Mar 2023
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Does anyone know whom makes Hysolis 3kW Off-Grid Inverter?
Spent a while down this exact rabbit hole when I was speccing up my cabin system. What finally helped me was pulling the unit apart (metaphorically — via the manual PDFs) and cross-referencing the...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill creeping up even when they're barely using the grid?
@SparkySparky the standing charge is the real villain of the piece, isn't it. I remember sitting in my cabin last winter, watching my Victron Cerbo showing I'd pulled maybe 4 units from the grid...
in General Chat 1 week ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@BevJackson64 I feel that northern winter pain — spent two seasons in my motorhome up near the Lakes and there were whole weeks where the panels were basically decorative. What finally sorted it...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 week ago
Anyone else using old washing machine motors for a DIY wind turbine?
Really enjoyed reading through this thread. My narrowboat has a pole-mounted turbine using a permanent magnet motor salvaged from an old Miele — those German machines often have beefier magnets...
in On a Budget 1 week ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS - which one do I trust?
@SparkyHiker this took me a while to get my head around when I first set up my cabin system. The BMS is essentially counting charge cycles internally, while your BMV-712 is measuring actual...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
MutliSolar RS6000 Phasenübergreifendes Laden
@Wez1961 has nailed it on the hardware side. I'd just add — I went down a very similar rabbit hole last winter with my narrowboat setup, spending a whole afternoon convinced I was missing...
in Q&A 2 weeks ago
Multi RS Solar – disconnection time on a bolted L-PE fault in island mode (TN-S)?
What tripped me up on my cabin install was realising the Multi RS Solar doesn't behave like a traditional transformer-based inverter here.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Hybrid off grid frequency dhifting
@VE_Boats this reminds me of when I first commissioned my cabin setup — spent three evenings scratching my head over frequency shifting behaviour before I realised the MPPT and Multiplus weren't...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Orion XS – Feature Request: Stop charging after absorption / disable Storage mode
@IslandOffGrid this rings very true for me — I had exactly this scenario on my narrowboat last winter.
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
ECO-WORTHY 60A MPPT charge controller numbers dont add up
@NorfolkVanLifer that analogy is going to live rent-free in my head every time I look at my Victron app now. I went through exactly this rabbit hole last spring with my cabin setup.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 weeks ago
[MISSION / JOB] Recherche Intégrateur Expert Node-RED / Venus OS (Région PACA / France ou Remote)
@JakeCrane same — the French job listing is a bit of a non-sequitur for us lot, but the tech question underneath it is genuinely interesting. I spent a good few weeks last winter wrestling with...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Learn more about the Victron ecosystem
@SophieHill know exactly what you mean — I thought I'd reached the bottom of the rabbit hole when I finally got my Cerbo GX talking to the SmartSolar controllers on the narrowboat.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
24V 300Ah Battery in UK: Fogstar Drift, Drift Pro, or Something Else?
@FormerCop raises something worth unpacking properly. I ran two 12V Drifts in series in my narrowboat for about six months before switching to a proper 24V unit, and the cross-BMS drama is real —...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone ever use an MPPT to buck voltage from a 24V battery to 12V?
Tried this exact thing on my narrowboat a couple of years back when I was running a 24V house bank but had a 12V bow thruster and a few legacy 12V appliances I didn't want to replace. Short answer...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
High cell voltage nach Erweiterung der Anlage
So I've got a bit of a head-scratcher and hoping someone here has seen this before. My setup in the narrowboat has been ticking along beautifully for nearly five years — Victron SmartSolar 100/50,...
in Q&A 1 month ago