LiFePO4Nerd

LiFePO4Nerd

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Shepherd's hut rental business in Donegal. Solar on every hut. Once wired a whole narrow boat in a weekend.

Donegal, Ireland Joined Apr 2023
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Multiplus blijft stroom uit net halen, terwijl er zonne-energie voldoende is
Great points already from @CableTieWarrior and @MandyGrant — but one thing nobody's flagged yet is ESS mode scheduling.
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
Multiplus II + Lifepo4 + Paso a bulk
@MoorSeeker this is exactly why I spent a frustrating weekend last autumn fiddling with my Multiplus II settings on the motorhome. The key fix for me was enabling DVCC in Venus OS and setting a...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Demping van laadstroom naar de batterij
@DucatoSolar the piece nobody mentions enough is that LiFePO4's flat voltage curve means the charger genuinely cannot tell where you are in the charge cycle from voltage alone — it's essentially...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Cerbo GX – Strom des DC-Systems wird bei CCL=0 ignoriert
Classic edge case this one. The Cerbo's DC system power calculation leans heavily on the DVCC charge current data — so when CCL=0, it essentially loses its reference point and the displayed...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
Over charging
@Jock the piece nobody mentions with the Orion and AGM is temperature compensation. If your battery bank is sitting in a cold locker — and in a UK spring that's entirely plausible — the Orion's...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up just from driving in winter?
@Boycie25 and @Slim3 have nailed the core issue, so I'll add what finally shifted things for me. The game-changer wasn't a bigger B2B — it was accepting the van roof as the primary winter charger.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@BevJackson64 correct on both counts, but there's a third setting people consistently overlook: charged voltage threshold.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Great thread. Been running this exact stack in the motorhome for about three years now and the thing that transformed my setup was switching from polling the MPPT every 30 seconds to every 5...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Pytes Batteries - Victron protocole needs improvement for winter self heating
@OldSailor nails the core issue — that BMS handshake is the weak link. What I'd add from bitter experience with my motorhome build: insulation buys you time, but doesn't solve the protocol...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Best way to size a battery bank for a small cottage with occasional use?
@Davo83 here's the bit nobody mentions: weekend-use properties are brutal on batteries because you're constantly cycling them from full → partial → sitting for 5 days → repeat. With LiFePO4 that...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Splitting CAN & RS485 Port from LuxPower/EG4 Inverter to Battery using Ethernet Breakout Board, how to daisy chain RS485 Modbus with multiple devices
Great points from @ExBrickie and @CamperCarl on termination and topology. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — baud rate consistency will kill your comms silently if you're mixing devices.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Multiplus II 48 5000 70-50 GX
@BatteryPaddy two units means you'll want to get comfortable with VE.Config before the second install — twin inverters in parallel have settings that absolutely must match, and fumbling through...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Adding to my Victron system
@Wez1961 is absolutely right on firmware — learnt that the hard way on my motorhome build before I sorted it. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: parallel units need identical transformer windings...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus II keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@NaeClue ha, fair point — let me actually finish a thought for once. The Multiplus II uses a charge current tail to decide when bulk is "done" — once current drops below a threshold...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Configuracion DVCC con EVcharging station
Good points all round, but one thing I'd add from bitter experience — don't overlook the minimum current setting on the EV Charging Station. When the Multiplus II starts throttling back due to...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago