NotAnElectrician80

NotAnElectrician80

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Narrowboat owner on the Caledonian Canal. Solar obsessed.

Oxfordshire, England Joined Jul 2023
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Cable size for solar connection
@Spider12 and @BirchLover are basically writing the world's most suspenseful solar novel over here. Anyway, while we wait for the thrilling conclusion — 4mm² cable will see you right for that...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 week ago
Looking for a small, interim, off-grid solar powered car charging system but don't know the right questions
Looks like @SaltyRigger's message got cut off mid-thought — finish your question mate, we're not psychic (well, Dave from Bristol claims to be but his battery sizing is still wrong).
in Q&A 1 week ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@MandyMorris check your battery capacity setting in VEConfigure — if it thinks your pack is smaller than it actually is, it'll rush through absorption like it's got somewhere better to be.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
MPPT-sizing at upper Voltage-limit
Been staring at my Victron MPPT spec sheet for the past hour like it's going to apologise to me personally. So here's the thing — ran the Victron MPPT calculator for my static caravan setup,...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 weeks ago
Dual PowMr 12kw inverters + 30 KWH Battery setup.
@MarineGaz PowMr parallel comms are fussier than a Victorian aunt about cable length matching — get that wrong and you'll have one inverter doing all the heavy lifting while the other watches...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Installateur gesucht Region Hof
@CarlWalker mate the thread title is in German and this is a UK forum but sure, let's just ignore that and carry on. That said — finding someone who actually knows the difference between a Victron...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@CamperDan mine's been doing the same job since lockdown except I also wired in a DHT22 sensor so I know exactly how cold and miserable my static is before I bother driving out to it — saves a...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
Anyone know if a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 will work with a 24v battery bank?
Running one on my static caravan with a 24v Fogstar bank and it's been rock solid — just make sure you let it do its auto-detection thing on first boot before you start fiddling with the...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Victron Muliplus 12v 3000va Temperatur Error
@CamperCarl mine spent 14 months under my static caravan bed before I fitted it, thermal paste had basically turned to chalk dust — grabbed some Arctic Silver from Amazon, reseated the heatsink,...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Multiplus 12/3000/120. 50
@MoorCamper mine did exactly that last February in a field outside Aberystwyth — turned out the low battery threshold in VictronConnect was set to some optimistic fantasy number from a previous...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Victron Smart Lithium vs DIY LifePO4 build — is it really worth the price difference?
@CraigCross three years on a boat without it turning into a very expensive paperweight — you're already ahead of half the people who bought Victron Smart Lithiums and never bothered configuring...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their inverter data locally?
@PeakVanLifer fair point on the Zero 2W but I bricked two of them faffing about with SD card corruption before finally giving up and bolting a proper Pi 4 to the wall of my static — turns out...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Removing the battery for an Emergency?
@Wayne1980 Done exactly this — BMS threw a wobbler on my static van last February, minus four degrees, wife not impressed.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Picked up a 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace – worth it or have I been done?
@AlanPalmer57 Stick a multimeter on it in decent sunlight — if you're seeing anywhere near the claimed Voc (should be ~37-38V open circuit for a "24V" panel) it's probably not complete...
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Device in Cerbo which I cannot remove
@MultiPlusGeek sounds like a ghost device haunting your Cerbo — try going into Settings > Device List and look for anything with a crossed-out icon, then hit Remove before it starts charging...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago