Anyone else running a grid-tie inverter on AC Out 2 of their Multiplus?
Got a similar setup in my shepherd's hut — Victron Multiplus-II 3000 and I've been toying with the idea of hanging a small...
Had this exact issue with mine last summer. Running it in the shepherd's hut off a leisure battery bank and it would just cut out after maybe 20-30 mins on a warm day.
Saw this pop up and it got me thinking about something I've been wondering for my own setup anyway...
If you were running a mobile training unit or workshop van travelling across Europe —...
Been down this rabbit hole for my shepherd's hut build (much smaller scale obvs) but the principle's the same — at 800A you really want something with a proper DC voltage rating, not just...
Had this exact problem in my shepherd's hut build last year. The Orion was mounted flat against a wooden panel — looked tidy but was basically a thermal disaster.
@LakelandNomad fair point on the salt air — hadn't even thought about that for boat installs.
For my shepherd's hut I went WiFi cams in the end, purely because running cable through the insulation...
@PeakVanLifer snap — shepherd's hut here too. Spent way too long thinking a bigger flue would sort everything before I realised the floor was basically open to the elements underneath.
What made...
Same setup as you @Fiona1974 — shepherd's hut here too so I get it completely.
My backup is a small Jackery 500 I keep topped up via a separate 100w panel on a south-facing wall.
From my shepherd's hut setup I can say the battery sizing is where most people come unstuck. EV charging even at 7kW will hammer a modest pack overnight.
Something nobody's mentioned yet — check your cell wire gauge going into the BMS. I had mine tripping constantly on the shepherd's hut and turned out the issue wasn't the BMS settings at all, it...
Just got my Cerbo GX set up in the hut and it's pulling data from the MPPT and the multiplus fine. But I'm wondering if I'm underusing it.
@DailySolar good shout on the absorption/float setup. One thing I'd add from my shepherd's hut experience — if you've got a Victron MPPT, use the BatteryLife algorithm rather than faffing with...
