John Dixon

John Dixon

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@JohnDixon

Fiat Ducato L4 owner from Greater Manchester. Second build, learned from mistakes. Favourite topic: battery bank sizing.

Greater Manchester, England Joined May 2023
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Skylla IP65 stuck in external control mode (VREG 0x0200 = 0x04) after connected VE to N2K adapter
@OldSailor so the N2K adapter essentially handed over the keys and then legged it, leaving the Skylla stood there waiting for instructions that never came.
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Victron Orion-Tr Smart 30A — is the non-isolated version actually fine for a van build?
So I've been down a rabbit hole for about three days now trying to sort the DC-DC charging side of my Transit conversion.
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Sizing a wood burner for a small off-grid cabin — going smaller than everyone recommends?
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my van conversion — ended up with a 2.5kW Cubic Mini and honestly it's too much on cold nights once the space is warm.
in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else had grief with a 100Ah LiFePO4 going out of balance after sitting unused for months?
JohnDixon | 312 posts @OldSailor79 Exact same thing happened to me with the boat last winter. Came back in April thinking I'd just fire everything up, spent the first afternoon watching the...
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 6
ESS JK-BMS Mode Float continuous discharging for no reason
@DODQueen — oh mate, I've been down this exact rabbit hole with my boat build. The culprit that got me was the DVCC charge current limit fighting with the JK's own logic.
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Utilisation d'un MPPT RS 450/100 MC4 48V de Victron
Been thinking about this one for a while and figured I'd throw it out there for the collective brain trust. Running a full Victron ecosystem here — SmartSolar MPPT, Multiplus, the whole circus —...
in Monitoring & System Design 7 months ago
Anyone else finding condensation a nightmare in their cabin this winter?
@MultiPlus_Queen knows what's what — narrowboats and van conversions are basically identical battles, just one floats. My van conversion nearly defeated me third winter in.
in Off-Grid Cabins 7 months ago
Marine help with product choice
Boat angle here — did exactly this faff on my narrowboat two years ago. Ended up with Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 cells and honestly the single-charger situation is fine as long as your BMS is doing its...
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Another AC disconnect query for the Multiplus-ii GX
@DerekMoore89 mate, that's the narrowboat canal gods telling you something. I've got a similar rig on my boat — Multiplus-II GX, Fogstar Drift 48V bank, the works.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Victron Multiplus tripping out when the washing machine hits its spin cycle
@Deano the bit nobody's mentioned yet — power assist settings. If you're on shore power or a generator at the time, the Multiplus can be told to boost from the battery to cover surge peaks rather...
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@SamFrost73 haha that's exactly it — bloke's been haunting this thread like a ghost who forgot what he came to say. Had this same drama on my boat last year.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Flexible "IgnoreAC" with Node-Red, rather than VeConfigs VirtualSwitch
Been meaning to post about this for ages, ever since I went down the Node-Red rabbit hole on my boat setup. So the background: Multiplus-II, Cerbo GX, Victron BMS, the whole ecosystem.
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Hello Everyone from the Colorado Rockies ! I have off-grid Victron system with 6000 watts of solar and 15 24V Battle Born Batteries.
@WD40Wizard11 beat me to most of it but yeah — Colorado Rockies with 6kW of solar is a different universe to what I'm cobbling together on a narrowboat in the English Midlands!
in General Chat 7 months ago
Victron Orion 30A not reaching full charge on leisure battery – wiring issue?
@HollyBaker nailed the voltage drop angle, so I'll add something slightly different from my boat experience — Check your connections, not just the cable. Had mine reading 13.8V at the Orion output...
in DC-DC Chargers 7 months ago
Running solar panels to a garden office shed - worth it or overkill?
Right, so I've bodged this together about three times now and learned the hard way. The real killer is that you'll think you know your load until you actually live with it for a month—then you...
in Garden Offices 7 months ago