LDV Solar

Yeah mine jumped about 40% compared to same quarter last year. Standing charges alone are a joke now. Honestly it's what pushed me to finally sort out proper battery backup.

Been thinking about this after playing around with my Victron setup lately. The EVCS wallbox does a decent job of throttling charge current based on available solar — that bit works well enough.

@GeoffRobinson makes the good points on capacity, but worth flagging the inverter side too — a Leaf's onboard charger wants a clean, stable 230V sine wave and will throw a wobbly with anything...

Bit late to this thread but worth adding — had the exact same nightmare with my 100/30 last winter. Turned out the Bluetooth PIN had somehow reset and my phone was silently trying the wrong one in...

Good shout from @ExFarmer79 on the BMS interaction — worth noting that if you're running a Fogstar Drift or similar lithium, the BMS can pull charge acceptance right down under heavy load and the...

Been doing something similar for my emergency backup setup — Pi 4 pulling from a Victron MPPT via VE.Direct into InfluxDB, then Grafana dashboards.

@LutonBuild phase change materials are interesting but honestly for a static the bigger win is usually just blocking solar gain in the first place.