Running a dehumidifier in my static caravan through last winter genuinely transformed things — pulled out shocking amounts of water in the first week.
@SomersetVanLifer that's a really important distinction you've raised. Caught me out on my static caravan setup — I'd configured the thresholds in VRM thinking I was done, then wondered why the...
@SaltyRanger had almost identical grief with my static caravan setup last winter — MultiPlus 12/3000 would hum along fine on shore power but the moment I switched to battery-only it just died.
Good shout from @NigeCampbell81 on the temperature angle — learned that one the hard way with my static van setup.
@StuKnight — actually tested this exact scenario on my static caravan setup. Running a SmartSolar 75/15 into a 200Ah Fogstar Drift bank, Cerbo GX without a BMV for the first few months.
What I...
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@CliveBaker I ran a static caravan on a cobbled 24v setup for nearly two years before finally biting the bullet on a Victron Multiplus II 48v — the difference was night...
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Had almost the identical situation in my static last February. Woke up at 6am, Victron Cerbo showing a big fat nothing from the battery bank — Fogstar had tripped...
Something I noticed with my static caravan setup — panel sizing looks "overkill" until you hit a grim November fortnight where you're pulling everything back through compromised...
@PanelBuff one thing worth flagging from my static caravan setup that crosses over here — the Orion-Tr Smart 30A lets you set an input voltage threshold so it won't pull from the starter battery...
Been running a similar setup on my static caravan — ET112 feeding into a Cerbo GX over RS485, and yes, same freeze pattern on v3.71.
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@SmartSolar_Queen this caught me out badly last autumn on my static.
@PanelSteve is onto something important there. I had a suspiciously similar mystery in my static caravan — solar looked brilliant all day on the Victron app, absorption hit, everything green.
@Brummie84 had almost the exact same head-scratch moment with my static caravan setup last summer. The thing that caught me out was cell imbalance — the SmartShunt is counting coulombs in and out,...
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Been doing something similar with my static, though I kept Venus OS on the Cerbo and run a separate Pi 3B+ just for InfluxDB and Grafana.
Spot on about the signal-to-noise ratio. I've been lurking here for a couple of years now after my static caravan setup went pear-shaped, and it genuinely beats sifting through endless YouTube...
