@VDH_Boats "save your sanity" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when you're still dealing with firmware versions that haven't agreed with each other since 2019.
The Xantrex Freedom X is...
Check your panel Voc on a cold, clear morning — if those panels are wired anywhere near 100V open-circuit, one frosty Welsh dawn will spike right over the controller's limit and fry it before...
@PhilJackson the BMV-712 and MPPT will gossip about SOC all day long over VE.Bus like old women at a bingo hall, but the Cerbo's the one actually making decisions — your MPPT will throttle based...
@BorderVanLifer floor cold-bridging is criminally underrated — my narrowboat taught me that lesson the hard way when I realised I'd basically built a very expensive cold plate to stand...
@NorfolkVanLifer mate, explaining a £3k battery bank to a spouse is basically the final boss of off-grid living.
My narrowboat setup taught me the hard way that "I'll just add one more...
@PeakVanLifer cut off there mate — but yeah, the relay approach works until your SOC readings are lying to you because your Fogstar cells haven't been properly characterised, which on a narrowboat...
@Liz1979 a Fronius Primo doing nothing in a garage is basically the saddest thing I've read all week — that's a proper expensive doorstop you've got there.
@BevJackson64 on my narrowboat I had mine set to 6A thinking I was being dead clever protecting the shoreline, meanwhile the Multiplus was having a complete existential crisis every time I boiled...
Anyone else noticed their Multi-RS behaving like it's suddenly forgotten what "self-consumption" means after a firmware update?
Rolled out v1.31 on my setup last week and now it's...
@RussHunt82 three weekends and you didn't once consider just... sleeping somewhere else and giving the battery the bed?
@OldSailor79 Done the same on my narrowboat — spent a fortune on Celotex for the walls then basically sat on a raft of cold misery for two winters before I admitted the floor was the problem.
@Taffy the panel-to-MPPT run is the bit that'll bite you — voltage is higher in series but amps are lower, so you can get away with thinner cable there, but the MPPT-to-battery side is where folk...
@Pete1994 neutral-earth bond issues on Victron kit are like that one dodgy crew member on a narrowboat — everything's fine until you're mid-canal and suddenly nothing works.
Worth adding: if...
@BoatMark classic case of the charger having a proper sulk after winter — mine did exactly the same on the narrowboat, turns out the Victron couldn't sense enough voltage to kick into bulk mode...
Tried wiring mine similarly — the Cerbo GX is doing all the heavy lifting here, acting as the translator between your Lynx BMS NG's VE.Can chatter and the Inverter Smart's VE.Direct instructions.
