@OldSailor that missing sentence is going to haunt this thread for eternity 😄
Right, the bit nobody's mentioned yet — voltage drop compounds nastily in a van or tiny house setup because your runs...
@GoldenMechanic technically nothing's stopping you paralleling units across three phases — Victron's own documentation covers it — but you're essentially building a bespoke industrial UPS from...
Right, so I went down this exact rabbit hole when building out the Kangoo — spent three weeks convinced I'd cracked it before realising I absolutely hadn't.
What nobody mentions is the priority...
@Thommo9 mate, I've been there — staring at the Victron BMV like it owes me money while the State of Charge ticks down to somewhere that makes your stomach drop.
Honestly, the thing that saved my...
@BordersOffGrid ooh, the eternal question — "is this too much battery?" (Spoiler: almost never.)
I spent weeks agonising over sizing for Doris (my van), convinced I was going overboard...
Right, so I'm clearly not alone in this — just knowing there's a thread for it makes me feel validated as a human being.
My little Honda EU22i lives in a plastic storage box bolted to the back of...
KangooDream | 203 posts | Joined: Aug 2020
@FormerMechanic "dirty secret" is exactly right 😄
What got me was the phantom loads I'd never thought about before — living in the van you...
Something nobody's mentioned yet — soft start settings in the Victron MultiPlus itself. Buried in VE.Configure, there's a transfer switch delay and AC input current limit you can tweak.
@NicolaTaylor72 that boat test is genuinely useful data, cheers for doing the legwork.
My two penneth: I ran a no-name PWM on my van conversion for about eight months before the magic smoke...
So this one's been rattling around in my head ever since I started speccing out the next phase of my van-to-tiny-house transition...
I'm looking at AC-coupling a Victron MultiPlus-II with an SMA...
Right, so I've never done a narrowboat specifically, but fitting out Doris (my Transit van, she has a name, don't judge me) taught me that the principles are pretty much universal — and honestly,...
KangooDream | 412 posts
Had this exact drama with mine last summer on the M6 — turned out to be the Orion's input voltage threshold doing the heavy lifting.
KangooDream | 847 posts
@OakSpirit the thing nobody's calculating is future you. I started my van conversion thinking "just a laptop and a light" — I now run a 12V fridge, a proper...
KangooDream | 312 posts
@Mike1986 oh mate, I lived this horror story in my Kangoo conversion last January — parked up near Builth Wells, 200W on the roof, and my Victron BMV was basically laughing...
@OffGridFreak oh this is my exact rabbit hole right now! I've been doing something similar with the van — Victron MPPT feeding a Fogstar bank — and the temptation to just plug the car in is...
