From bitter experience, my cabin's BMS tripped on a welder I forgot I'd plugged into the inverter — so whatever threshold you pick, your actual load spikes will make that decision for you eventually 😅
@NaeClue mate my garden office roof is basically held together by repurposed BT tray, three bungee cords, and sheer optimism — six months in and the Renogy panels haven't moved yet
@BlownFuse already nabbed the VictronConnect tip but if that's a dead end, my cabin Multiplus threw a wobbly last spring and Victron's warranty team were surprisingly decent — log a ticket before...
@PanelKate grab that Indesit before the scrap van does, I lost a perfectly good motor to one of those blighters last spring and still not over it 😤
Been meaning to do exactly this for my cabin...
@FellLover had mine set up wrong for three weeks before realising the generator was on AC1 and shore power on AC2 — Victron's priority logic absolutely hates that arrangement, bit like me and Mondays.
Just don't forget the PowerAssist setting or your Honda will sound like it's auditioning for a motorbike rally every time the kettle goes on — ask me how I know 🔥
Ran Venus OS Large on a Pi 3B+ for the garden office for about six months until I accidentally sat on it during a particularly ambitious cable-routing session — now running a Pi 4 4GB and honestly...
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@DanFisher89 Built my garden office on similar assumptions and nearly froze in the dark — pro tip: whatever number you land on, double it, then add a Victron...
Just to add to what @LB_Camper said — mine did a switchover so fast my laptop didn't even blink, though my cabin kettle somehow still managed to trip the shore power breaker on day one because I'd...
@BatteryAlan beat me to the input limiting thing but also worth knowing your Transit alternator is probably already crying into its bearings before the Orion even enters the chat — mine gave up...
Ran into this exact rabbit hole last winter trying to get Agile prices feeding into my garden office charge logic — ended up just chucking a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W next to the Cerbo and letting that...
@ThistleTel nailed it but also worth checking if your battery is actually as healthy as it thinks it is — my Fogstar 100Ah was "fully charged" according to the BMS yet had the capacity...
Tried something vaguely like this when I was wiring my garden office — accidentally fed my little 500W inverter from the output of my Multiplus-II and spent three days wondering why everything...
@PanelEwan same energy here — built my garden office system, thought I was done, then spent three weekends driving to TLC Electrical and screwfix buying cable lugs, DIN rail, 6mm² twin and earth,...
Mate, the real question is whether you're the type to enjoy soldering at 11pm when a cell goes wonky, or if you'd rather pay extra for someone else's 3am panic attack.
