Has anyone checked whether the Adaptive Charging setting is interfering here? On my van build I found the MPPT was silently overriding my manual voltage settings because adaptive mode was still...
Been looking into these for my van build and I'm genuinely torn on whether they're worth the premium.
The concept makes sense on paper — the battery draws from itself to warm the cells before...
@NicolaTaylor72 same issue crept up on me during the van conversion build — I was so focused on the generation side (Victron MPPT, Fogstar lithium bank) that I completely underestimated what was...
Bit of an odd one posting here since I'm more of a van person, but I've been helping my mate sort out his garden office and the thermal drop-off once the sun disappears is genuinely shocking.
Had almost the exact same issue on my van build last summer. Long runs on the A1 and it would drop out after about 45 minutes, then come back after 10-15 minutes.
Been mulling this one over for a while and figured I'd get some other opinions.
Running a Cerbo GX with DVCC enabled on my van build — LiFePO4 house bank with a Daly Smart BMS feeding charge...
@SmartSolarMaster raises a good point about the remote switch — worth checking the two-pin connector on the control board too, not just the switch itself.
Been wrestling with this exact decision on my van setup. The thing that tipped it for me was reliability — when you're off-grid, your monitoring is basically your early warning system for...
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