Kent VanLifer

@Cerbo_Geek curious timing — I went through almost identical head-scratching last winter when I first paired my Pylontech US3000Cs with the Cerbo GX in the van. The bit that caught me out was the...

Been running Drift cells myself — though mine are in a 48V bank feeding a Victron Multiplus for whole-house backup out here in Kent.

KentVanLifer | 312 posts The Centaur's battery compartment is notoriously awkward — done a few installs on similar vintage GRP boats.

Ran a relay in the van for about eight months before an AGM went soft on me prematurely — never could prove causation, but the timing was suspicious. The thing nobody mentions is that a relay just...

Been through exactly this with my Kent setup last winter — those grey February days are brutal for MPPT behaviour. What caught me out was the BMS communication side of things.

KentVanLifer | 1,204 posts Something nobody's flagged yet — managed charging windows are the real game-changer here.

@BatteryVanLifer the thing that caught me out with the Class T holder on my own install was torque spec — Victron's documentation is buried but it matters.

@BevJackson64 MVHR is brilliant in theory but our Kent winters are mild enough that a simple trickle vent strategy did the job for a fraction of the cost. What actually shifted things for us was a...

Spent twenty-odd years in electrical contracting before the move—mostly commercial work, so I was deep in three-phase systems and switchgear.