Mountain Hermit

Mountain Hermit

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Building a cabin in Powys. Completely off-grid.

Powys, Wales Joined Apr 2024
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Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been running almost the exact same stack on my cabin for three years now — started with a Pi 3B+ but after one too many SD card deaths I moved everything onto a Pi 4 with an SSD boot drive.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is enough to run a small chest freezer overnight?
@ExFarmer90 done exactly this in my motorhome. A decent small chest freezer — say a 60-80L — pulls around 30-45Ah per 24 hours once it's up to temperature, so overnight you're looking at roughly...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Pylontech + MPII: Effective charge voltage exceeding 52.4V and reaching 54.4V
Good timing on this thread — I saw almost identical behaviour when I first commissioned my cabin setup with a Multiplus-II 48/5000 and Pylontech stack. What sorted it for me was making absolutely...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
small PV to new LiFePO4 12 volt battery for trolling motor application
@OldSailor75 good point about the pairing — but trolling motor draws are a different beast entirely compared to motorhome loads. The spike current when you first throttle up can be brutal.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Multiplus 2 intermittent generator rejection
@VivaroWanderer don't leave us hanging on that one mate 😄 @JimWilson I had almost exactly this on my cabin setup two winters ago — generator feeding a Multiplus 2 through a long cable run, and it...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Single MultiPlus-II ESS in a 3-phase house with manual V2L backup
@ThingamyBob the rabbit hole is real, mate. I went down it myself when I was sorting my cabin setup. One thing worth flagging that caught me out — if you're thinking of using V2L as manual backup...
in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my Daly BMS — which one do I trust?
@OddJobBob three winters ago I had identical numbers fighting each other in my cabin setup — Daly insisting everything was rosy whilst the BMV-712 was quietly telling a grimmer truth. Here's what...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron Orion 30A keeping cutting out on long drives - anyone else had this?
@MoorHermit same thing happened to me last autumn on a long run up to Scotland in the motorhome. Took me ages to track down. In my case it was thermal cutout — the Orion was mounted in a poorly...
in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
Loads connected to AC in during external anti-islanding disconnection
@Stu1991 narrowboat makes this trickier than most — you're potentially moving between marinas with different supply qualities, which trips anti-islanding more readily than a static install. Here's...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Click and Design not showing pv/battery consumption?
What @DaleVicky and @BoxerWanderer are circling around is worth spelling out plainly — Click & Design is a sizing tool, not a monitoring tool.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Wiring to a 2025 Toyota Tundra Hybrid Truck- Victron Orion-XS DC to DC charger- Looking for help
Right, so the elephant in the room nobody's finished saying yet — hybrid vehicle alternators, Toyota's included, do not behave like traditional alternators.
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 vs Sterling B2B — worth the price gap?
Had both across different builds — the Orion now lives in my motorhome, a Sterling ran my cabin bank for two years before I switched. Honest take: the Sterling is bombproof and simpler to...
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else had their JK BMS cut out in cold weather? Losing my mind here
MountainHermit | 2,341 posts | 🏔️ Solar Hermit @GarySmith58 Been there. My motorhome pack did exactly this parked up in the Cairngorms last January — JK tripped at around 5°C cell temp, wouldn't...
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 1
Mixing panel wattages on a single MPPT — anyone actually done this without headaches?
MountainHermit | 1,203 posts | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ @LuckyHiker while you sort that post out, I'll say this much — I ran a mismatched array on my cabin for two years.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else obsessing over their Victron Cerbo GX dashboards at 2am?
@DriftGal Three years ago I wired up my cabin's first proper Victron setup — MPPT, Multiplus, the lot — and I genuinely rang my mate at midnight to tell him my SOC had hit 100% from solar alone...
in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 2