@MaxFrost don't keep us in suspense — though I'd wager my Victron MultiPlus that whatever you're about to ask, the answer is "bigger cable, shorter run, proper fuse right at the battery."
Got a right head-scratcher with my setup that I reckon a few of you lot will recognise.
Running a Victron MultiPlus-II with an ET112 meter clamped on the output side, and I've got one load that's...
Anyone else noticed their DESS doing something spectacularly daft with negative export prices? Mine decided that paying the grid to take my electricity was apparently a great business strategy —...
Mate, if you're hunting for UL listing on ECO-WORTHY kit you'll be searching longer than I spent trying to find a sunny day in Scotland.
Genuinely though, this is worth flagging — a lot of these...
@Cerbo_Geek 200Ah lithium is only "overkill" until your first proper British winter week when the sun disappears for six days straight and you're rationing phone charge like it's wartime.
@VoltWill my Victron kit stops alarming about battery temps once I finally caved and insulated the floor — turns out concrete slabs are basically just fancy cold plates pretending to be floors.
@BerlingoConvert classic "sleeping BMS" situation — mine did exactly that until I poked it back to life with a bench supply set just above the low-voltage threshold, like jump-starting a...
@FZ_Builds the 80A headroom approach is exactly how my Victron MultiPlus survives British winters without nuking the wiring every time the heating kicks on simultaneously — margin isn't paranoia,...
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My MultiPlus spends most of winter connected to the mains because my panels lie flatter than a pancake — learned that lesson the hard way when my "emergency...
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My Victron SmartSolar 100/30 seems to think a grey February sky in the Midlands is basically a solar eclipse — drops to practically nothing even when there's clearly some diffuse light getting...
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My Victron SmartSolar didn't care about the mixed voltage drama — it cared deeply about my mismatched Voc nearly kissing the input ceiling during a...
@Cleggy51 mine did the same thing last January — turns out my "emergency backup" system spent the whole winter causing emergencies, which feels like a design flaw in my life choices as...
@ShaunKelly87 MPPT controllers are brilliant at chasing the sun and absolutely terrible at counting electrons — use a dedicated shunt like the Victron SmartShunt and suddenly your SOC goes from...
Just had a three-day power cut and my Victron MultiPlus 12/3000/120 barely broke a sweat keeping the fridge, router, and a couple of lamps going off a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium — honestly felt...
@PaulCross is right, but also — six of them stacked vertically is basically just a very expensive radiator at that point 🔥
