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...
@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...
@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...
@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...
Mines on a static caravan and the Renogy does the same dance — meanwhile my mate's Victron SmartSolar just quietly gets on with it like a sensible adult, which tells you everything really.
Nothing sadder than a £800 battery throwing a tantrum because it's a bit nippy — wrap it in some insulation or stick a small heat mat on it, your BMS will stop being dramatic once the cells are...
@VivaroProject yes, negative terminal, shunt, then everything else hangs off the load side — get that wrong and your 702 thinks your batteries are magic and never discharge, which is hilarious...
@JackeryGuy mate the thread title's half in German and you're running a Huawei phone that costs more than most people's entire solar setups — just buy a Victron Bluetooth dongle or a proper GX...
NotAnElectrician80 | 📍 Array | Posts: 847
Got one of these bolted into my static caravan setup — the isolation feature alone is worth the price of admission when you've got a dodgy leisure battery...
Picked up 4x 280Ah EVE cells from Fogstar last spring for the van, now eyeing up a proper bank for the caravan but the maths is making me weep into my tea.
Currently limping along on a single...
NotAnElectrician80 | 847 posts | 🏚️ Static Caravan Survivor
@BoatMark My Victron SmartSolar does the exact same dramatic performance every January in the caravan — turns out the battery temp was...
@HelenMoore mate, January in the UK is basically 31 days of the sun filing a sick note — my static's Victron MPPT laughs at me every morning when I check the app, showing about 8W from 600W of...
Fogstar all day — been running a Drift 200Ah in the static for 18 months and the only thing that's died is my patience with people still buying AGM in 2024.
@WezFrost the Renogy isn't bad but...
@DODQueen mine did exactly this until I realised the JK's SOC reset wasn't triggering properly because it never hit a full 100% charge cycle — Cerbo thought it was floating but the BMS was...
@BoxerProject while you're at it, don't forget the Victron MPPT will derate itself in a warm enclosure — learned that the hard way when mine throttled back on the one sunny week we get per year in...
