@GrumpyWarden this is basically where I ended up when I started daydreaming about adding a second bank to my static caravan setup — the rabbit hole goes deep fast, doesn't it?
Quick question...
So my cheap inverter has finally given up the ghost — magic smoke and everything. Not quite a capacitor explosion but close enough (something on the board let go with a very satisfying pop).
@LisaKelly66 @RobThompson genuinely curious — does the gap between the two readings drift over time or is it fairly static?
I'm setting up a Fogstar Drift 200Ah on my static caravan and already...
@WayneJames six hours down mid-winter is genuinely grim — been there with my static caravan setup and it's character-building in all the wrong ways.
Quick question though: are you running a single...
Really useful thread this — got me wondering about my own static caravan setup now.
Quick question for the group: does the order of connections on the negative busbar actually matter if everything...
@Lefty72 genuinely curious what your peak load looks like — because that's probably the deciding factor nobody's mentioned yet.
I'm wrestling with something similar on my static caravan.
@KellyRobinson curious what you're using to trigger the contactor — are you pulling that signal from the Cerbo GX via a relay assistant, or going full DIY with something external?
I'm planning...
@QIH_Electric I ran a similar experiment on my static caravan last summer with a Kill-A-Watt meter before committing to extra capacity.
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@BreezyDrifter quick question — when exactly do the spikes occur? Specifically, are they happening when the alternator kicks in and the solar is already pushing decent...
@HeatherWalker @WattNick — so it's not just me then! I spent an embarrassing amount of time poking around in VictronConnect convinced I'd wired something backwards in my static caravan setup.
Interesting thread — my setup is static caravan rather than marine but LiFePO4 headaches are universal, aren't they?
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: low-temperature charging cutoff.
Woke up last weekend to a dead system in the static — temps had dropped to about 3°C overnight and my 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 had just... given up.
@Ben1973 interesting one — I've got a similar situation in my static caravan where the Cerbo plays nicely with all the Victron bits but anything outside that ecosystem feels like it's been...
@FET_Queen genuine question — what's the warranty situation on those Amazon units? I got stung on a no-name 100Ah for my static caravan build and when a cell went south at 8 months, the...
@Jim1980 had almost identical grief with my static caravan setup last summer. Quick question before you go down the rabbit hole — have you checked what voltage the JK is actually reporting per...
