NotAnElectrician80

NotAnElectrician80

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Narrowboat owner on the Caledonian Canal. Solar obsessed.

Oxfordshire, England Joined Jul 2023
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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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
Adding Solar - Victron MPPT to MultiPlus
Don't forget to tick "has DC system" in VE.Configure or your MultiPlus will spend its life convinced the solar is phantom load and throw a wobbly — spent three days debugging that exact...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Prevent grid feed -in with RS Smart Solar RS48 6000 inverter
@BlownFuse already covered the AC feed-in toggle so I won't flog that dead horse, but make sure you've also got ESS assistant configured properly in VEConfigure — I learned the hard way that the...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Smart solar MPPT 100/30 battery output high
@QJ_Builds mate, we've got three blind men describing an elephant here — finish your post before we all go down a rabbit hole diagnosing something that might just be a dodgy Renogy shunt reading...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on a cloudy week in Scotland?
@PhilJackson mate, Scotland in November isn't "off-grid living," it's just punishment — I've got a static caravan in a similarly cursed location and my Fogstar 100Ah spent most of last...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago