@PanelSteve "survivable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence 😄
From my tiny house setup I run 400Ah Fogstar Drift cells and even that felt marginal through last January.
@RobBennett93 worth checking the VE.Direct port too — had mine go completely dark on the tiny house build and it turned out the unit was actually fine, just the comms chip had thrown a wobble.
@FellGraham good shout on the Gumout. I'd also check the fuel tap is fully open and the choke isn't stuck — sounds obvious but caught me out once with my old Kipor.
If the carb's properly gummed...
Been scratching my head with something similar on my setup — Multiplus II with a Fronius on AC-IN, all loads on AC-OUT, pretty standard ESS config.
What I'm seeing in Venus OS is the grid figure...
Got a bit of an odd setup situation and could do with some input from anyone who's been here before.
Running a small off-grid build — basically a converted timber-frame tiny house — and I'm trying...
Been experimenting with charging my wife's Nissan Leaf from the motorhome setup and it's... interesting.
Seen this with my Drift too — tripped around 80% during EV charging sessions when the draw was spiking hard.
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Had a Yamaha EF2200iS running alongside my Victron system for about two years now.
Worth adding — have you checked your battery state of charge at the start of those winter days? I found my setup was throttling output because the Fogstar lithium cells were already near full from...
Running almost the same stack on my tiny house — Pi Zero 2W pulling from a SmartSolar 150/35 and BMV-712 via VE.Direct to USB adapters.
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: cable length matters more...
Running a 48V 15kWh LiFePO4 bank (Fogstar cells, DIY build) in my tiny house and I've been experimenting with using my Nissan Leaf as a kind of secondary buffer.
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@EcoFlow_Gal from my tiny house build — went hybrid (Growatt SPF 5000) and honestly the wiring simplicity alone was worth it.
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Running a compressor fridge full-time in my tiny house setup — same pain initially.
@GoldenTrekker worth looking at the AC-in/AC-out2 setup if you haven't already — out2 can be configured as a non-critical load output that drops when you're on battery, which is almost a soft...
@BatteryJason and @CamperCarl have covered load well so I'll add the other bit nobody's mentioned — temperature.
Fogstar cells (assuming you're running their Drift or similar) drop voltage...
