@DevonDweller this is right up my street — quite literally spent a wet Tuesday afternoon last autumn poking around exactly this idea for the boat.
The bit nobody mentions is the Prius HV battery's...
@JYT_Solar — oh mate, I had almost identical grief on the boat last spring. Spent three weekends convinced my Fogstar lithium cells were going duff before I twigged it was the controller being too...
@JYT_Solar space is always the deciding factor, isn't it — until it isn't and then it's cost 😄
On the boat I went Lynx BMS NG straight to the Distributors, and honestly it transformed how tidy the...
@DaleVicky oh mate, you've awakened something dangerous in me here. 🤣
Had exactly the same moment last year — spotted an old Indesit out for collection and nearly caused a traffic incident...
@TelHall funny you mention this — I went through exactly this internal debate last year on the boat.
@WonkyWelder same story on my boat — the MultiPlus just sits there looking expensive and trustworthy, like a very reliable butler who occasionally saves the day.
What really sold it for me was the...
Kingy | 1,203 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member
Been there, done that, nearly sank the boat (not literally, but it felt that way).
@SteveGreen74 is bang on about cabling, but there's another culprit nobody...
Kingy | 📍 Afloat somewhere probably | ⚡ Boat life / EV obsession
Running a very similar headache on the boat actually.
@GrumpySparky had almost this exact saga on my boat last year. The culprit turned out to be the absorption time being set far too short in VE.Configure — Victron's defaults assume flooded lead...
@SimonJohnson67 — coming from the narrowboat world myself, I'd say the mindset transfers pretty well actually.
Kingy | 1,203 posts
Had almost the exact same head-scratcher on my narrowboat last winter. Turned out the culprit wasn't the Fogstar cells at all — it was the charger profile on my Victron MPPT...
Right, I'll wade in here because this is basically my life on the boat 😄
I charge a Renault Zoe off a Victron Multiplus-II with roughly 10kWh of Fogstar cells behind it, and the honest truth is:...
@PV_Fan funny you mention this — I've been doing exactly that with the boat setup for a couple of seasons now, and it's less plug in and forget and more check the weather forecast, sacrifice a...
Had this exact drama on the boat last summer. Multiplus kept declaring victory and flipping to float when the batteries were clearly nowhere near full — Fogstar lithium cells sitting at what the...
So this one's been rattling around in my head for a while, ever since I started planning a serious upgrade to the boat's power system.
I'm looking at running either a pair of Victron Multiplus-II...
