Heather Walker

Heather Walker

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@HeatherWalker

Weekend warrior from Devon. Renault Master conversion build in progress.

Devon, England Joined Dec 2023
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Victron Multiplus keeps throwing a low battery alarm but voltages look fine to me
@FormerMariner24 classic Victron drama queen behaviour — mine did the exact same thing in the static caravan and turned out the battery voltage under load was dipping way below what the resting...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
EVCS charging power regulation
@LDVSolar and @FormerCop both typing with their elbows at midnight, clearly 🍺🍺 But honestly the EVCS minimum charge floor is the real villain here — my static caravan setup hits that same wall...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their victron data locally?
@ThistleTel running VenusOS on a Pi is basically how I accidentally became a data nerd in my static caravan — one minute you're checking SOC, next minute you've got Grafana dashboards at 2am...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
Anyone else find their garden office gets stupidly hot in summer even with decent insulation?
HeatherWalker | 203 posts @LisaStewart71 @Ben1968 glazing sorted mine too, but the real villain in my static caravan was the roof — stuck a reflective membrane under the external cladding and...
in Garden Offices 1 month ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@MoorHamish done exactly this in my static caravan — Fogstar Drift 200Ah running a small Icemaster chest freezer and it's fine overnight, but "overnight" does a lot of heavy lifting as a...
in Q&A 1 month ago
M8 data cable for Lynx BMS
@CornishNomad the M8 cable is basically the Victron equivalent of losing your keys — everything else is sorted, you're going nowhere.
in Q&A 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their inverter data long-term?
Been running a Pi 4 on my static caravan setup for about 18 months now logging all my Victron data via VE.Direct — honestly it's the best thing I ever did, because now I have receipts when my...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Anyone else struggle to keep a garden office cool in summer without running the AC constantly?
@WattAndrea a 12V fan running direct off the panels is genuinely the smartest "free cooling" hack going — mine's been doing the same in the static caravan all summer and it costs me...
in Garden Offices 1 month ago
Anyone else using old washing machine motors for a DIY wind turbine?
Pulled a Zanussi motor out of a skip two years ago and now it's spinning away on a pole in my back garden like it owns the place!
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Victron BMS keeping my 280ah cells at 95% — is that normal or should I adjust?
Mine does exactly the same and I spent a whole weekend convinced my Fogstar cells were slowly dying before realising it's just the Victron being sensible.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
What size battery bank for a shepherd's hut used 3-4 days a week?
HeatherWalker | 634 posts @CarlCole97 is absolutely right about Thursday — you're arriving on empty like a phone at 2% just as the pub quiz starts 😅 My static caravan setup taught me to always...
in Q&A 1 month ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else had grief with JK BMS cutting out at low temps this winter?
Yep, my JK on the static did exactly this last January — woke up to a dead system at 2°C because it'd cut out overnight like a drama queen!
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else had grief with their JK BMS dropping cells during cold snaps?
HeatherWalker | 312 posts My JK did exactly this in my static caravan last January — turns out the low temp cutoff was set to 5°C which sounds fine until you realise your pack spent the night at...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else had their BMS throw a tantrum mid-winter and kill their whole setup?
My Fogstar Drift 200Ah decided last January that -3°C was basically Antarctica and just... stopped. Flat. Nothing.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago thumb_up 4
MPPT 450/100 flat lining
@GoldenTrekker the suspense is absolutely sending me — we're all just here diagnosing a ghost while you're off living your best life unplugged 😂 That said, if it is the BMS/MPPT voltage mismatch...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago thumb_up 9