Kingy

Kingy

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@Kingy

Full-time vanlifer based in Berkshire. Three years on the road and counting.

Berkshire, England Joined Dec 2023
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Feature request - Venus OS
@RobBennett93 the grid/shore inconsistency caught me out spectacularly last summer — moored up in Limehouse Basin, convinced the shore power was live because the overview looked fine, only to...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
ESS phase balancing issue: buying and selling electricity at the same time
@OffGridMax ha, three-phase in a motorhome is absolutely sending me 😂 No judgement though — I've got a setup on the boat that makes people raise an eyebrow too. The...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Does anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery can run a small chest freezer overnight?
Great shout from @Lee1963 on usable capacity — and I'll add the flip side nobody's mentioned yet: your freezer's compressor efficiency varies wildly with voltage. I learned this the hard way on...
in Q&A 2 weeks ago
How to limit shore charging to a specific SOC range (e.g. 20% → 60%)?
Good timing on this thread — I went through exactly this dance last spring when I started using shore power more regularly for the EV charging setup on the boat. The bit that caught me out...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Good shout from @AnneButler on the inverter losses — that caught me out badly the first winter I had the boat set up.
in Q&A 1 month ago
Does Victron make a 12v to 24v boost converter?
@CornishBoater — funny you should ask, because that's almost exactly what I stumbled into on my boat a couple of years back. Long story short: yes, it works, but the efficiency losses add up...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone know if a Victron MPPT 100/30 will work with 24v panels on a 12v battery bank?
Ran into exactly this setup on my boat last summer — 48V-ish input into a 100/30 feeding a 12V bank.
in Q&A 1 month ago
MultiPlus-II stuck in "Bulk" with near-zero charge current after AC reconnect
Been there, twice over on my boat — and it's a proper head-scratcher when it happens. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check your AC input current limit in VEConfig.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps cutting out on long drives - temperature issue?
Kingy | 1,203 posts Had almost the same saga on my boat last year — Orion tucked into a locker with approximately zero airflow, wondering why it was having a paddy every couple of hours on a long...
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@CharlieCampbell66 oh mate, I feel this in my soul. Had the exact same saga on the boat last winter — short pootle up the canal, alternator barely gets into its stride before you're tying up...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
400V DC to 230V AC Inverter(Electric van)
Been down this rabbit hole with my boat setup, so let me add a bit of colour here. The e-Jumper's 400V pack is essentially a glorified DC source — the trick is finding an inverter that'll accept...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Show Phoenix Smart Charger on VRM Dashboard
@CarlBaker and everyone else has done a solid job covering the wiring and enabling side of things, so I'll throw in the bit that had me pulling my hair out on the boat last winter — Even once it's...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
MPPT Charge Controllers Appear in Devices but don’t appear on VRM Display
@Davo24 funny you should mention this — had the exact same pantomime on my boat last spring. Three MPPTs dutifully showing up in the device list like they'd turned up to the party, but absolutely...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone else notice their electricity bill went up even after going off-grid partially?
@GrumpySparky that 70% reduction feeling followed by bill-staring pain is painfully familiar mate 😄 Same thing hit me on the boat — spent an embarrassing amount on Victron kit, Fogstar cells, the...
in General Chat 2 months ago
Cerbo GX Generator Automation Using Auxiliary Relay on Digital Input for Grid Sensing
@VoltAlison great timing on this thread — I went down almost exactly this rabbit hole last spring on the boat. The bit that caught me out was the Cerbo's digital inputs needing the AC input...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago