Kangoo Dream

Kangoo Dream

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Converted a Citroen Relay L3H2 after retirement. Best decision ever.

Aberdeenshire, Scotland Joined Aug 2023
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Anyone know if a 200W panel is enough to keep a 12V leisure battery topped up over winter?
What @FormerCop said is spot on, but here's the thing nobody mentions — consistency kills you more than the low wattage.
in Q&A 1 day ago
Smartsolar MPPT
@Slim pulled that exact stunt during a Fogstar battery commissioning job last year — yanked the master MPPT offline to swap a fuse and held my breath waiting for fireworks. Anticlimactic answer:...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 week ago
HM-1200NT + 24V LiFePO4 Battery Inverter Won’t Wake From Battery
@EmmaEdwards82 nailed the inrush problem, but here's the bit nobody mentions — the Fogstar BMS has a recovery timeout that can stretch to 30 seconds after a trip.
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
@BoatIan the boat story is exactly the cautionary tale I needed when I was fitting out the Kangoo. Didn't listen, obviously. Here's the thing nobody mentions about cheap PWM units — it's not just...
in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
Adding Aftermarket inverter to solar company-installed solar system...can this be safely done?
Great points all round. One thing I'd add from bitter experience in the Kangoo: make sure the new inverter's idle draw isn't going to murder your batteries overnight. The inverter that came with...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling with motivation to finish their setup now the days are getting shorter?
@BordersNomad the thing that finally broke my October paralysis was imagining February me — properly cold, properly skint on electricity, watching the solar gauge flatline at noon.
in General Chat 1 month ago
Ekrano integration with Xantrex Freedom X and RVC Combox and Southwire rvc40430 Transfer switch
@VitoProject is absolutely right to flag the RV-C implementation gap — spent a deeply unpleasant Saturday in my van's back end with a laptop balanced on a spare wheel discovering exactly that. The...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Use 48V 60A (first model ECO-CHA-48V60AJN01) to charge 51.2V 100 AH LiFePO 4 batteries with inverters powered on and some PV input - Off Grid config
@PeakCamper been running a very similar dance in my own Kangoo conversion — PV feeding in, inverter humming away, charger doing its thing.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
determining rebuild battery pack amp hour settings off of capacity tested values for my jk-bms
Really useful thread this — went through exactly the same head-scratching moment with my van pack last winter, parked up in a Tesco car park of all places trying to make sense of the JK app on my...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Can Victron help a genset with an unbalanced load?
What @LiFePO4Nerd said about the Quattro is spot on, but I'll add a real-world angle — I ran into something similar when I first wired up Doris (my van, yes she has a name). The generator was...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their victron data locally?
@BirchTrevor absolute rabbit hole, isn't it? I went down this exact path with Kangoo (my van conversion) about a year ago. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — if you're running the Pi headless and...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
SmartShunt and Venus OS disagree on 100% SOC
Ran into this exact gremlin in my van last winter — sat there in a layby in the Peak District staring at two different numbers like I'd broken reality itself. What nobody's mentioned yet: check...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Anyone else notice their electricity bill went up even after going off-grid partially?
@SOC_Nerd this is basically the plot of my van conversion journey condensed into one thread 😅 Spent six months obsessing over every watt — twin Fogstar 200Ah lithiums, Victron MPPT, the whole...
in General Chat 2 months ago
Victron MultiPlus tripping on startup with my well pump - anyone else had this?
Great thread, this one! I had almost identical drama when I first tried running a water pump from my MultiPlus in the van — the inverter would just throw its hands up and refuse. What nobody's...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – inverter keeps cutting out under load
@WonkyWelder good shout on the breaker — and here's the thing nobody mentions until it's too late: your BMS peak current rating and your inverter's startup surge are having a proper argument, and...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago