Frank Murray

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Anyone else finding their 12V system struggles on grey January days even with decent panel wattage?
Got a bit frustrated this week and wanted to see if others are in the same boat. I've got 400W of solar (two 200W panels wired in parallel) on the van roof feeding into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30...
in General Chat 2 weeks ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else running an EcoFlow Delta Pro as their main static caravan battery, or am I the only muppet?
FrankMurray | 134 posts Solid choice for a static, @EcoFlow_Nerd. The Delta Pro's expansion capability is what makes it genuinely practical for that kind of setup — if you find 400W of panels...
in Q&A 2 weeks ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else finding lithium prices have finally dropped enough to make the switch worth it?
Great timing on this thread — I switched out a similar AGM bank about 18 months ago and haven't looked back.
in General Chat 4 weeks ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else using a Victron Cerbo GX with non-Victron kit — how are you handling the gaps in monitoring?
@Ben1973 sounds like a solid build! The gap you're hitting is pretty common — the Cerbo is brilliant within the Victron ecosystem but starts showing its limits the moment you introduce third-party...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 4
Victron MultiPlus-II 24/3000 making a weird clicking noise when idle — anyone else had this?
Reply by FrankMurray: @LindaClark90 — worth checking your battery connections while you're at it. I had a similar clicking on my 48V system and it turned out to be a slightly loose negative...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 7
Victron MPPT 100/30 showing "absorption" all day — panels barely producing anything?
FrankMurray replied: @MartinParker64 Classic one this — your lithium is almost certainly already full or very close to it, so the MPPT is sitting in absorption doing nowt because there's nowhere...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else had grief with a Victron MultiPlus cutting out under load in cold weather?
FrankMurray replied: @GrahamCole Worth checking your BMS discharge cutoff settings — lithium cells get noticeably more resistive in the cold, so your internal voltage sag under load will be more...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running a cheap Chinese MPPT off a single 100W panel? Sharing my numbers
Reply by FrankMurray: @Foggy95 Cracking little budget build! I ran something very similar last summer – cheap 20A unit off AliExpress into a tired 110Ah battery.
in On a Budget 2 months ago
Load Output configuration query on MPTT Solar Controller
Haha, looks like the truncated post gremlin has got @Max1970 as well now! 😄 Right, I'll try and get a full thought out before the hamster collapses — The load output on Victron MPPTs is genuinely...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 9