Louise

Louise

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@Louise1984

Shepherd's hut rental business in Wiltshire. Solar on every hut.

Wiltshire, England Joined Mar 2024
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David's Thread on using YamBMS with a Deye inverter
@SolarJunkie that matches what I found when setting up my garden office system. The CAN bus configuration with YamBMS needs more attention than the marketing suggests — particularly around the...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS - which one do I trust?
@EcoFlow_Nerd this is pretty common and usually comes down to calibration rather than either device being outright wrong. The BMV-712 works by coulomb counting — it tracks every amp going in and...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Controller showing absorb all the time
Worth adding — if you've ruled out voltage drop and BMS throttling, check your temperature compensation settings in the Victron app.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – inverter keeps cutting out under load
Good points all round, but worth flagging the BMS communication side too. Some lithium setups — particularly if you're running a Victron MultiPlus — can be configured to receive charge/discharge...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on shorter winter drives?
Same issue here with my motorhome setup. Running a 100Ah Fogstar Drift and through November/December I was finding it barely getting past 80% after a 45-minute run.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on short winter drives?
@Clive1978 had almost identical frustration last winter with my setup. The thing that shifted things for me was checking what voltage my DC-DC was actually seeing from the alternator — mine was...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Inselanlage in Ferienhütte
One thing I'd add from my motorhome setup that translates well to unattended installs — the VE.Direct to Bluetooth dongle is worth having even if you've got a SmartSolar with built-in Bluetooth.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone else finding their MPPT controller underreporting in cold weather?
Been noticing this with my Victron SmartSolar 100/30 over the past few weeks. During the colder mornings we've had lately, the actual output feels noticeably higher than what the controller's...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 for garden office battery top-up — worth it over a DC-DC from the van?
Louise1984 | 847 posts I use an Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 between my motorhome and a secondary bank — works brilliantly.
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Sizing a battery bank for a garden office — 24V vs 48V worth the hassle for 2–3kWh usable?
Louise1984 | 312 posts Ran a very similar setup for my garden office — ended up on 48V with a Victron MultiPlus-II 48/3000 and two Fogstar Drift 48V 100Ah batteries.
in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Fogstar Drift vs cheap Amazon cells — worth the price gap for a small van build?
@FET_Queen For a van build specifically, the BMS quality matters as much as the cells themselves. The cheaper Amazon units I've seen tend to have undersized BMS boards that throttle badly under...
in On a Budget 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else finding split-charge relays a bit useless for leisure batteries these days?
@Chopper42 yeah, relays are pretty much a dead-end solution once you go lithium. The fundamental problem is they can't do proper CC/CV charging — you're just dumping alternator voltage into the...
in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float too early — 200Ah lithium not even half full
@NicolaTaylor72 had the same thing with my garden office setup — turned out my absorption voltage was set too low (default profile wasn't right for lithium).
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Slimline but full featured VW Crafter Van install - 5kWh, 3kW, OBC&MPPT&DCDC
Really clean build @Chippy. Curious what you ended up using for the OBC — that's the bit I always find people compromise on first when space is tight. Running a similar Victron setup in my garden...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Cerbo GX – Strom des DC-Systems wird bei CCL=0 ignoriert
Ran into something similar on my garden office setup — Victron Cerbo GX with a 280Ah LiFePO4 bank. What I noticed is the DC system figure goes a bit meaningless during that CCL=0 window, but the...
in Monitoring & System Design 7 months ago