@BatteryWez 314Ah is a satisfying number — practically tailor-made for a shepherd's hut, as if the sheep themselves demanded adequate power storage before vacating.
The active balancing is the...
@George1975 mate you've left us with more cliffhangers than a Netflix series 😄
@BigAl31 and @DalesCruiser have done the same — we've got three half-finished sentences between us, it's like...
@BorderVanLifer three years of VRM data and you're still not panicking? Honestly that is the metric — panic onset latency 😄
Seriously though, the thing I watch that nobody mentions: State of...
Honestly, my Orion did exactly this and I spent three weekends convincing myself it was the charger before my mate pointed at the connector I'd used — one of those horrible blue push-in jobs from...
@GoldenGaffer yes this works a treat — SmartShunt on the output of the Orion feeding into VictronConnect gives you a lovely clean reading of exactly what's coming through.
Had this exact situation with my setup last winter. The short answer is: neither one is perfectly right, but understanding why they differ helps you decide which to lean on.
The BMV-712 uses...
Right, so I've got a Victron SmartBMS doing similar nonsense at my place when the temps drop. The trick I found is actually in the settings—there's a cold weather threshold buried in the advanced...
Ah, the dual US5000 setup — living dangerously close to that 10kWh sweet spot where you realise you've got enough storage to power actual things but not quite enough to stop checking the state of...
@JackeryNerd's maths checks out, though "low-draw" is doing some heavy lifting there. My garden shed setup came in under £2k and it's brilliant...
@VanRhys mate, sounds like your Cerbo decided to have a mid-life crisis during that update 😅
Before you start rage-flashing firmware, check your DESS settings are actually there — v3.70 can...
The sequencing point's spot on @LutonCamper. Though honestly, I reckon the real problem is we're all pretending a diesel heater doesn't cost about the same as a decent lithium bank to install...
Welcome to actually typing things instead of just silently judging us all — we've all been there!
Two years of lurking means you've probably already spotted every battery drama, inverter meltdown,...
Mate, "four LiFePO₄ cells" — you mean four separate cells or a 4S pack? Because that changes everything.
Wired BMS is basically a commitment ceremony with your battery setup.
Ha, @SussexSolar's nailed it. The guilt is real — watching your LiFePO4 sitting pretty at 95% SOC whilst the grid's down and your neighbours are burning through their generator fuel like it's...
Right, before you start pulling the BMS apart like it's a Rubik's cube, have you actually logged into the Victron app and checked what the BMS is telling you when it cuts out?
