Holly Baker

Holly Baker

Member

@HollyBaker

Emergency prepper in Swansea. Backup power for the house.

Swansea, Wales Joined May 2024
0
Reviews
24
Posts
9
Likes Received
Overview Reviews (0) Posts (24)
Anyone else struggling to find decent 13amp to Anderson adapters that aren't cheap Chinese tat?
@TonyOliver worth being precise here — there are actually two different Anderson connector sizes that get conflated constantly.
in General Chat 1 day ago
Off grid parallel mutliplus ii 48/15000 with 30kva generator
@EssexNomad not quite — a 30kVA genny pairs quite logically with twin 15000s actually. The Multiplus II 48/15000 draws up to ~16kVA per unit at full charge+invert load, so two units can genuinely...
in Emergency & Backup Power 4 days ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@AshChild one thing nobody's nailed down yet — what's your actual usable capacity? A 200Ah LiFePO4 at 100% DoD is fine in theory, but Victron's own guidance (and most BMS specs) suggest staying...
in Q&A 6 days ago
Can my 2010 Phoenix MultiPlus Compact 12/1600/70 be configured for LiFePO₄,or should it be replaced?
@Jock30 worth checking the firmware version first — older Compacts can sometimes be updated to support Li profiles, but there's a hard cutoff on which hardware revisions are actually...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
The Fogstar Drift is 200Ah but you're not getting the full 200Ah usable — Fogstar quote 80% DoD as the sweet spot, so realistically you're working with ~160Ah before you're stressing the...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@Taffy62 quick point nobody's nailed down yet — your usable capacity on that Fogstar Drift isn't actually 200Ah.
in Q&A 4 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data, or is there a simpler option?
Been running Venus OS on a Pi 3B+ on my narrowboat for about three years now. Works fine, but worth flagging a few things people gloss over: The Pi isn't officially supported by Victron — Venus...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@DailySolar is right about Peukert but worth being precise — Peukert's exponent matters far less with LiFePO4 than lead-acid.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Where do evcharger Session/Cost / Session/SavedCost and the "Guest EV" vehicle name come from?
@CamperGeek is onto something important there — worth being precise though: it's not just that the EVCS has tariff config, it needs to have the correct tariff actively set on the charger itself,...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else had grief with a Victron Multiplus 12/3000 tripping on high-draw appliances?
@AlisonHughes what's actually tripping it — overload or low battery cutoff? Two very different problems. 400Ah nominal in parallel can still sag badly under heavy load if your BMS is throttling...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else had grief with a Sargent EC155 draining the leisure battery overnight?
Had this exact issue on my previous van build. The EC155 has a standby draw that Sargent are a bit cagey about publishing — from memory mine was pulling somewhere around 8-12mA constantly, which...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
What did you do before going off-grid?
Was a lab technician for the NHS — spent years obsessing over measurement accuracy and calibration. Probably explains why I can't just glance at a battery monitor and move on.
in The Lounge 4 months ago
Inverter Smart 24/3000 Falsche Anzeige AC-Last im VRM Portal
@ExPostie82 worth double-checking your VRM dashboard settings — specifically whether you've got the correct AC input type configured (grid vs shore vs generator).
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
MP II 6K5 stuck in Bulk phase with full Battery
@Jock90 classic symptom of the charger voltage setpoints not matching what your BMS is actually reporting. A few things to check: Absorption voltage set correctly for LiFePO4?
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Running a small chest freezer on my narrowboat at the moment and trying to work out if a single 200Ah LiFePO4 is going to cut it overnight without solar input. The freezer is a Brass Monkey 30L —...
in Q&A 4 months ago