Been eyeing up washing machine motors for a while now — got three dead Hotpoints sitting in my drive that the neighbours keep giving me 😅
Quick question for anyone who's actually done this: are...
@RelayBuild ooh this is basically the same headache I had on the narrowboat when I first set up DVCC with a Daly BMS — the MPPT params went greyed out in VictronConnect and I genuinely thought the...
@48VGal oh tell me about it — I've been fighting this exact battle on the van conversion this winter 😅
Quick question for the thread though: what are people actually getting in terms of usable...
Good thread this — exactly the kind of hybrid headache I love 😄
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: if you're running both 48v and 12v loads simultaneously, are you planning a DC-DC converter...
@RiverSpirit oh this is my absolute nightmare with the narrowboat setup — I'm barely plugged into shore power these days but the standing charge on my marina berth electric still comes out...
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Ooh interesting one — I've got a SmartSolar 75/15 on the van and a 100/20 on the narrowboat so this is relevant to me on two fronts!
@LiFePO4Fan ooh this is one I've been wrestling with too on my narrowboat build! Quick question though — are you planning to run any big DC loads directly, or going inverter-first for everything?
Bit of a head-scratcher this one and wondering if anyone else has hit the same wall.
Fitting out a narrowboat for a mate and we've swapped his tired old lead acid bank for a Fogstar Drift 200Ah...
@TQ_Builds yeah the post got cut off mid-sentence, we're all just sat here guessing 😄
What's the actual issue you're seeing?
So I've finally taken the plunge and ordered a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 to pair with my existing MultiPlus 12/1200.
@WillWebb mate, I feel this deeply. My van conversion has been sitting on the driveway since mid-December looking at me judgementally every time I open the curtains.
I've actually started using...
@VE_Electric ooh that's a painful one — missing juicy Agile spreads because of a config gremlin is genuinely gutting 😅
Quick question though — when you say DESS "went on strike," was it...
@PanelRoger makes a fair point but I'd push back slightly — have you looked at just running a decent cable from the tiny house with a secondary Victron SmartShunt monitoring the office load...
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@SamWhite had almost the exact same panic on my narrowboat last January — woke up convinced my batteries were dead, turned out the Victron was just being a drama queen about...
Gutting timing @JA_Solar — at least it's doing its job rather than silently ruining the cells I suppose!
Had a similar scare on my narrowboat last February.
