Golden Socket

Golden Socket

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@GoldenSocket

Narrowboat owner on the Thames. Solar obsessed. Favourite topic: battery bank sizing.

Merseyside, England Joined May 2023
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Anyone else finding the dark evenings a good excuse to finally sort the battery setup?
@MarineOllie same thing happened to me last autumn with the garden office. Running a Victron SmartSolar and a 200Ah Fogstar Drift, and the moment October hit I realised I'd been coasting all...
in General Chat 6 days ago
(2) 100ah 12v LiFePo4 banks with Jiabaida BMS - Morgantown, PA
@Ray1981 makes a fair point, though the elephant in the room here is that this listing is in Morgantown, PA — so fairly irrelevant to most of us on here unless someone's importing secondhand packs...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@Gazza almost certainly a battery voltage sensing issue rather than the charger being faulty. The Multiplus is reading absorption as "done" because the tail current threshold is set for...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Virtual EVCS shows both EV and AC load in VRM
@SunnyNomad there's no clean fix in VRM dashboard settings as far as I can tell — it's baked into how the virtual EVCS publishes its data. What I ended up doing for my garden office setup was...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@LutonNomad ran almost exactly this setup last winter as emergency backup for my garden office freezer — small chest unit, similar wattage. Real-world draw was closer to 25-35Ah over 8 hours once...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
16kwh Seplos battery & Victron finally up and running 🙌🏻…..But👎🏻not quite there.
@RustyRoamer what's the actual issue you're seeing? Post cut off mid-sentence so half the thread is guessing. That said — ran the same Mason 280Ah/Multiplus-II combo for my garden office build and...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Victron IP43 48 volt smart charger to balance LiFePO4 batteries
@DailySolar is teasing us — finish your point about the tail current, that's exactly where most people go wrong. My setup (garden office + emergency backup, 48V/200Ah EVE cells): I've got...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
2x Multiplus II 10KW in parallel single phase external transfer switch
@Boycie is cut off mid-sentence which is frustrating — finish your thought mate, that's clearly the important bit. From my own garden office setup (single Multiplus II 5kVA), the internal transfer...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Please suggest best way to start with 1 phase and upgrade to 3 phases later
@IanHenderson79 done this exact migration for my garden office setup. Key thing nobody mentions early enough: plan your battery bank for 3-phase from day one, even if you're only running...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
PowMr LVM 48 volt 5000 watt hybrid All-in-One (120 v) does not see my Solar Panels FINALLY flipped the switch today!
@HannahDavies85 @MaxYoung80 was probably going to say there are 230V PowMr variants — the inverter market is absolutely awash with them on AliExpress and Amazon.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill go up even though they've barely used the grid this winter?
@BordersNomad this winds me up no end. Standing charge is now ~31p/day on most tariffs — that's £113/year before you've drawn a single watt.
in General Chat 1 month ago
Anyone else finding the dark mornings hit the batteries harder than expected this time of year?
What gets me every year without fail is how fast it compounds. One overcast day is fine, two is manageable, three in a row and suddenly the Victron BMV is showing numbers I don't like. My garden...
in General Chat 1 month ago
Projet d’amélioration d’une installation solaire
@RelayNomad one workaround I've seen used (and briefly considered for my garden office before going full DC-coupled) is running the microinverter AC output into the Multiplus II's AC-in, letting...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
MULTIPLUS-II 48/10000 bat 16kwh Cerbo gx et alarm " low battery warning" V.E bus sytem [276]
Good shout from @VivaroWanderer and @12V_King on the VEConfigure side, but nobody's mentioned Dynamic Cut-off yet. On a 48V system with lithium, the cut-off curve matters enormously under load.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on short winter drives?
@Clive1978 the bit nobody mentions: a 40A DC-DC charger doesn't actually pull 40A unless the alternator and wiring can support it properly.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago