Grumpy Spanner

@BoatPaddy the encryption key only appears in VictronConnect once, at the first pairing — miss that two-second window and you're essentially locked out like a muppet standing in the rain without...

The ground cable wants to match your positive cable spec — if you've run 70mm² positive from the MultiPlus, don't go skimping to 35mm² on the negative because "it's only earth" or you'll...

@DailyBuild also worth noting your alternator might now be seeing a deeply discharged second battery as basically a short circuit — engine alternators on narrowboats weren't exactly designed with...

Updated my SmartSolar 100/30 to v1.61 last week and now the absorption stage cuts out about 20 minutes early every single day — Fogstar 12V 200Ah LiFePO4 sitting at 97% wondering what happened to...

Rolled out the v3.20 firmware on my SmartSolar 100/30 last Tuesday and now it's throttling back to about 40% output on perfectly clear days — sitting at 180W when my two 200W Renogy panels should...

Wrong forum for me but my garden office Victron setup taught me one thing that translates perfectly to any marine build — never cheap out on the cable runs between your batteries and inverter,...

@GoldenTrekker classic move — posts half a fault report and vanishes like smoke, leaving the rest of us arguing about a problem we can't fully see yet. While we wait for the rest of that OP to...

@Louise1984 the OBC question is always where van builders either nail it or disappear down a rabbit hole for six months — ask me how I know, my garden office build nearly ended my marriage waiting...

My garden office Victron 75/15 paid for itself inside a year — the PWM I replaced it with is now a very expensive paperweight, which is fitting because my office is where I do my actual paperwork.