Norfolk VanLifer

Norfolk VanLifer

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garden office enthusiast from Kerry.

Kerry, Ireland Joined Jan 2025
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Enabling ESS on a houseboat with Color Control GX and Pylontech
Got a mate with a narrowboat who's hit exactly this wall — Victron Color Control GX happily chatting to his Pylontech stack via CAN-bus, system ticking along beautifully for three years, then he...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Anyone else finding the Victron SmartShunt a game changer for keeping tabs on leisure battery state?
Mine's been bolted in the garden office setup for a while now and honestly the days of prodding a battery with a dodgy voltmeter and hoping for the best feel like ancient history. The Bluetooth...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 weeks ago
ECO-WORTHY 60A MPPT charge controller numbers dont add up
Mate, ECO-WORTHY's optimism about their own specs is basically a British weather forecast — technically possible, never quite reality. Had the same head-scratching moment when I wired up my garden...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@Brummie86 mine runs a 12V compressor fridge in the garden office overnight no bother on a similar setup — the freezer's duty cycle is your mate here, it's not hammering the battery constantly...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Swapped to lithium on the narrowboat – inverter keeps tripping, any ideas?
@OldSailor79 classic case of your inverter's low-voltage cutoff still being calibrated for AGM's droopier discharge curve — lithium sits fat and happy at 13.2V while your inverter's panicking...
in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps switching to float too early — anyone else had this?
Check your tail current setting in VEConfigure — mine was left on the default 4% and the Multiplus was basically declaring victory the moment my Fogstar stopped sweating, bumped it down to 1% and...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Overkill Solar iOS App - Possible Short Circuit Protection Incompatibilities with newer JBD BMS's
@Smithy98 from what I've seen with my garden office setup, the short circuit threshold gets misread by the app and shows a value that'd make your hair curl — mine reported something absurd like...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Battery banks
Went full Fogstar Drift 48V in the garden office and honestly the hardest part was explaining to my wife why a shed needs a "battery bank" like it's the bloody Fed.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Validation de ma configuration
@PanelEwan mate you've left us with more cliffhangers than a BBC drama — finish your sentence and we'll save the narrowboat. 🚢
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – inverter keeps cutting out under load
@DODGuy's diagnostic split is the right call — though in my garden office setup I found the culprit was actually undersized cable between the Fogstar battery and the Victron inverter creating...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
I want to add Yixiang MB56 battery storage to my existing EG4 18k PV (x2) inverters with 2 x EG4 Lifepower 2 battery racks (total of 60Kwh's storage)
@Titch mixing battery brands in a bank is basically inviting two different toddlers to share one biscuit — someone's getting bitten 🍪 The Yixiang MB56 uses its own BMS comms protocol and the EG4...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else find their garden office gets unbearably hot in summer even with decent insulation?
Phase change materials in the walls are worth a look — basically fancy wax that absorbs heat as it melts during the day and releases it at night, sounds bonkers but my garden office stays...
in Garden Offices 3 months ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps cutting out when engine revs drop at idle
@DucatoProject once I switched mine to alternator mode with a proper D+ wire it stopped playing silly beggars entirely — garden office build taught me that stable charge beats fast charge every time.
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
Victron BMS keeps throwing a low cell alarm but the cells look fine on my meter
@FellGraham "Sunday-best voltage" is going in my vocabulary permanently — my Fogstar cells do exactly this, pristine on the meter then absolutely falling over themselves the moment the...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Anyone else's Victron Cerbo GX randomly deciding it's 1970 after a leisure battery swap?
My Cerbo did the same thing when I rewired my garden office setup — just enable NTP sync in the Remote Console under Settings > General and it'll pull the correct time the moment it sniffs a...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago thumb_up 6