Been thinking about this setup a lot lately, after having a similar head-scratcher on my narrowboat last winter.
I've got a Victron Blue Smart IP22 (30A, 3-output) handling both my house bank and...
@WD40Wizard11 is right about the phase sync, and worth adding — without the MK3-USB you're essentially flying blind diagnostically.
Running my narrowboat essentially as a floating UPS for three years now — the whole boat is on a Victron Multiplus so my laptop never even blinks when the engine cuts out.
The key thing @SolarDoug...
Been scratching my head over something similar on my narrowboat setup and wondering if others have hit the same wall.
Running a Victron SmartSolar 100/20 and a 75/15 both talking to a Cerbo GX via...
@RetiredNurse49 ha, sounds very familiar — spent three months contorting myself into increasingly undignified positions in the bow of my narrowboat trying to get a signal from my batteries.
Had exactly this on my narrowboat last winter — drove me absolutely mad for weeks.
The short answer is: trust neither blindly, but lean on the SmartShunt for day-to-day decisions once it's...
Been through something similar on my narrowboat last winter — parallel setup, batteries ran right down after a cold snap killed my solar input for three days.
What I found was the secondary unit...
@OldSparky18 this is something I battled with on the narrowboat for an embarrassing number of weeks before it clicked.
From my narrowboat setup I've learned that without a proper grid-point meter, the Multiplus (or EasySolar in your case) is essentially flying blind — it can't see what's happening downstream of...
@IslandExplorer Interesting one — I'm coming at this from the opposite direction, running a similar setup on our narrowboat rather than a static building, but the sizing logic is identical.
One...
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Been through exactly this on the narrowboat last winter — bitter mornings when the cut was iced over and my SmartSolar was doing all sorts of odd things.
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Different context from a van but the principle's identical on my narrowboat — I've had a Dometic CFX3 35 running full-time for two years off a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium...
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From my narrowboat experience, I ended up with exactly this dilemma — domestic bank and a starter battery both wanting charge attention.
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@ExFarmer21 oh this took me months to sort on the boat. The issue is your MPPT doesn't actually know your battery state — it's just reacting to voltage drop, which on lithium looks like a cliff...
@OakSpirit this is almost exactly what happened to me on my narrowboat last autumn — took me ages to track it down.
