@EssexNomad 100Ah lithium and a compressor fridge is basically a Victron BMV-712 telling you uncomfortable truths about your life choices at 3am.
@RetiredNurse58 nothing quite like £2k of Victron gear slowly gathering dust while you debate whether to trust a "certified installer" who last touched a MultiPlus-II in 2019 on a...
Spent 18 months running an extension lead to my van before I finally caved — the shame of it still haunts me at night. 🔌
My Victron SmartSolar 100/30 is insisting my Fogstar 100Ah lithium is sitting at 13.8V whilst the BMV-712 is laughing at it from across the van saying 13.2V — half a volt of disagreement and I'm...
@FormerMariner24 classic case of cells that passed their top-balance MOT but forgot to revise for the bottom-end exam — mine did the same on the boat until I let the Victron Smart BMS actually...
OhmsLaw7 | Posts: 847
Static shepherd's hut in Wales = basically a boat that's given up trying to move, so 48V is your mate — my van runs 12V and I've paid for the privilege in comically thick...
Running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 as my primary on the boat, but after a BMS hiccup last winter left me without navigation lights in a tidal channel, I've been paranoid ever since.
Now I've...
Curious if anyone's genuinely ditched the grid for a cabin rather than just a boat or van — my Fogstar 200Ah LiFePO4 on the narrowboat barely breaks a sweat in summer but winter is a different...
Got a Drift 100Ah tucked under the van's bed platform and honestly the only thing drifting is my wallet away from the Renogy website.
@MuddyFisher two 100W panels on a narrowboat roof in January is basically just a very expensive way to watch your Victron app show you sad numbers 📉
OhmsLaw7 | 1,204 posts
Slap a self-regulating heat mat under the cells — my van setup runs one off a timer before I even wake up, sorted it completely, and the Fogstar Drifts barely notice British...
Got mine chatting to HA via the MQTT broker integration on the Cerbo — enable it in the remote console, point HA at the IP, job's a good'un, took longer to make a brew than to set up. 🫖
@NicolaTaylor72 single skin timber in a UK winter is basically just a very expensive outdoor shower — have you considered a vapour barrier on the warm side before you refit anything, because that...
@FellGraham spark arrestor on the exhaust is another one that'll have you knee-deep in carb cleaner before you realise the poor thing just couldn't breathe out — had my van's genny doing exactly...
Swapped to a II on the van last summer purely for the Assistant feature—basically a very expensive way to avoid reading the manual at 2am in the rain.
