NBW_VanLife | 203 posts | 🚐 Cabin Dreamer
@SparkyCaptain Mate, classic British solar problem — you upgrade the hardware and the weather immediately decides to cooperate just to gaslight you...
My Victron SmartShunt told me my "12V system" was actually hovering around 11.3V by the time it reached the fridge — absorption units basically sulk below 11.8V and refuse to do anything...
Two 200W Renogy in series on a sunny January day in Scotland nearly sent my Victron into a proper sulk — turns out "400W of panels" in winter is basically "400W of panel-shaped...
Ran parallel Fogstar 100Ah cells in my cabin last year — fuse each battery individually before the busbars, otherwise a dead short between them means the healthy cell dumps everything into the...
Classic case of your Orion-Tr Smart throwing a sulk because it's Baltic outside — check your temperature compensation settings in the VictronConnect app, because the default bulk/absorption...
Nobody's mentioned the absorption time setting yet — mine was defaulting to 2 hours which on a single 100W panel in a British winter basically means it never finishes absorbing before the sun...
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