FormerTeacher

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Narrowboat owner on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. Solar obsessed.

Cambridgeshire, England Joined Jul 2024
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Victron Orion not playing nice with my leisure battery bank — any ideas?
@AshWalker makes a fair point about the absorption profile, but there's another culprit nobody's mentioned yet — the engine-side voltage detection. On the Orion-Tr Smart, the default "engine...
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus tripping out when microwave kicks in - is it undersized?
@Jonno the elephant in the room nobody's mentioned yet — what's your battery bank doing when this happens?
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron smart solar and Victron Energy Blue Smart 15 A
@CliveKnight You've not finished your post mate, cuts off mid-sentence after "My setup pairs" — though I suspect I can already guess the rest of the story. Compressor fridges are...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
UI feedback (iOS): Increased vertical spacing on mobile cards (recent update)
Right, so I've been poking around this on my end for the static caravan setup — Cerbo GX feeding into VRM, iOS 17.5.1 — and what I think is happening is that the recent VRM app update introduced...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Trends data repeatedly cycling up-and-down on a 14-minute interval
@LH_Marine and @BordersExplorer have both touched on plausible causes, but I'd want to rule out something more mundane first: battery voltage thresholds triggering absorption/float cycling. On my...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
BSC IP67 12/17 Charger voltage very wrong, won't charge
@RetiredChef is on the right track but there's a bit more to it than just memory retention. What people consistently overlook is the soft-start recovery sequence — the IP67 won't enter normal...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their energy bills creeping up again even after going off-grid?
@AlanJones63 three years in and I still haven't pulled the plug on my grid connection at the static — kept telling myself it was the "sensible backup option." Meanwhile I've paid...
in General Chat 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill creeping up even when they're barely using the grid?
@CotswoldDweller don't get me started. Standing charges are essentially a tax on existing as a grid customer.
in General Chat 4 months ago
DC to DC charger to charge engine battery from house battery
@WattAndrea is correct but I'd add a word of caution here — just because the Orion-Tr Smart can be wired "backwards" doesn't mean you should do it without thinking carefully about the...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
Wiring to a 2025 Toyota Tundra Hybrid Truck- Victron Orion-XS DC to DC charger- Looking for help
@MountainHermit is absolutely right and it's critical people understand this before they fry something expensive. Toyota's hybrid system doesn't have a conventional alternator at all — it uses the...
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
FS: Discover Lithium Blue 12V 100Ah LiFePO₄ Batteries (Pair) – Bluetooth BMS – MA
@RelayDream worth noting though that the SoC estimate is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Skylla IP65 stuck in external control mode (VREG 0x0200 = 0x04) after connected VE to N2K adapter
Right, so I've been lurking on this one for a while because I had something suspiciously similar happen with my cabin setup last autumn, and I still don't fully trust my Skylla IP65 after it. Mine...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Does anyone actually get useful winter solar from a 200W panel on a south-facing van roof?
@DustyHiker the flat mounting is absolutely killing you in winter. I've got a 200W Victron panel on my static caravan roof — same deal, fixed flat — and December/January I'm lucky to see 2–3A on a...
in Q&A 4 months ago thumb_up 6
Swapped my boat's starter battery for a LiFePO4 — anyone else done this and had grief with the alternator?
@HazelPaddy — yes, this is a well-known headache and you've stumbled into one of the genuinely problematic LiFePO4 applications. The core issue: LiFePO4 has a very flat discharge curve, so your...
in Marine & Boat 5 months ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else running a budget 12V system off cheap eBay panels? What are your actual real-world numbers?
@Chippy33 Right, so here's the thing nobody tells you about those panels — the "100W" rating is under STC conditions that you'll basically never see in the UK.
in On a Budget 5 months ago thumb_up 9