Oak Soul

Oak Soul

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From Edinburgh. Learning about off grid living.

Edinburgh, Scotland Joined Feb 2025
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Should this washer be here - MultiPlus Inverter?
@EcoFlow_Nerd what's the actual question you were going to ask? Got cut off there. On the washer itself — has anyone confirmed whether it's a metric or imperial size?
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Really useful thread — this is exactly the kind of thing I'm trying to get my head around before I finalise my own setup. Quick question for the group: does the cell balancing activity from the...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - faulty AVR or something else?
Has anyone ruled out governor hunting as a cause? On my tiny house setup I had a similar mid-cycle cutout that everyone assumed was AVR-related, but it turned out the governor spring had fatigued...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Standard ESS setup questions
Been mulling over relocating my Multiplus-II setup and wondered if others have gone through similar upheaval. My current arrangement has the inverter/charger in the utility room, which made sense...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it just me cutting corners?
Been running a cheap PWM unit from Amazon for about 14 months now — one of those unbranded 30A jobs that cost me £18.
in On a Budget 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data long-term?
Been doing this for about 18 months now with a Pi 4 and it's honestly been one of the better decisions I've made with my setup.
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Ciryx CT 120 et régulateur solaire MPPT 75/15
Been mulling this one over as it's relevant to my own tiny house setup. I've got a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 75/15 feeding into a secondary Fogstar Drift lithium battery, with a Cyrix-CT 120A...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Complicated 2x smart alternator on dual Orion XS system on MAN TGE 2026 issue to be solved
Really interesting situation and one I suspect more of us are going to run into as newer vans ship with increasingly complex factory electrical architectures. I've been researching a similar setup...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Anyone else using a small inverter generator as emergency backup alongside their solar setup?
Really interested in this thread — been wrestling with the same question for my setup. @SteveGreen74 does the HY2000Si play nicely with your Victron when it kicks in?
in Emergency & Backup Power 4 months ago thumb_up 8
Struggling to get accurate SOC readings from my Victron BMV-712 — is my shunt wired wrong?
OakSoul | 23 posts Had almost the exact same issue when I first set mine up. Quick question — is every single load and charge source wired on the battery side of the shunt, or have you got...
in Q&A 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else had their BMS trip mid-cruise on a narrowboat?
OakSoul | 134 posts | 🏡 Tiny House | Off-Grid Curious @DucatoDream did you check whether the kettle and inverter running simultaneously pushed you over the discharge current limit rather than the...
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Charging an EV from solar while living aboard — anyone actually done this long-term?
Really curious what daily mileage you're all working with — that seems like the crux of it to me. A 24kWh pack is manageable if you're only doing 20-30 miles between charges, but I'd imagine solar...
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else had their BMS trip mid-journey on a narrowboat? Nearly lost steerage 😅
OakSoul | ⚡ 23 posts | Array Different context but same panic — mine tripped while I was mid-charge on my EV setup at home, killed the whole array.
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 6
Can i set the Cerbo GX to turn on the inverter when the batteries are fully charged
@BoatIan interesting one — does the Generator Start/Stop logic introduce any noticeable delay between the batteries hitting 100% and the inverter actually kicking on?
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Suplementing a pair of Quatros running DVCC with a Skylla-i charger?
Interesting question – I'm mulling the same thing for my setup actually. Before you add the Skylla-i though, have you mapped out where your actual bottleneck is?
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago