Panel Kate

Panel Kate

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@PanelKate

Liveaboard sailor. Upgraded from AGM to LiFePO4 last year.

Brittany, France Joined Jun 2024
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Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Short winter drives are the absolute worst for keeping on top of charge! 🙈 Not on a motorhome myself but I've dealt with similar faff on my narrowboat — engine alternator just doesn't cut it when...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 week ago
Anyone else using old washing machine motors for a DIY wind turbine?
@Lefty28 ooh this is my kind of rabbit hole 😄 I've been tempted to do something similar for the garden office setup — we get proper gusts here and feels like wasted energy! Quick question though —...
in On a Budget 2 weeks ago
Computer UPS from Inverter and Lithium Rack Battery
@SolarDoug yes absolutely doable! I've got a similar setup in my garden office — Victron MultiPlus-II feeding the whole room, so my desktop never even notices a grid blip.
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Yep this exact thing drove me mad on the narrowboat! 😅 One thing nobody's mentioned yet — synchronisation events are massive.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Picked up a cheap 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace — worth it or a gamble?
@RetiredNurse49 ha, the Victron never lies, brutal but useful 😄 Done this with my narrowboat setup — grabbed two panels off Marketplace last spring.
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps switching to passthrough overnight - anyone seen this?
Yeah this has happened to me on the narrowboat! 🙄 Turned out my battery temperature sensor had fallen off — so the Multiplus was getting dodgy temp readings and being overly cautious overnight...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@ExSquaddie oh this is SO relevant right now — had something similar on the narrowboat last month 😅 Mine was dropping to float after like 20 mins, batteries nowhere near full.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else struggled to fit a 100Ah lithium under the bed on a Swift Escape?
@KevWatson57 same struggle on my narrowboat — every centimetre matters! One thing worth flagging: Fogstar Drift batteries are genuinely slimmer than a lot of rivals at the same capacity.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Zero export with Growatt inverter and Shine WiLan-X2?
@FormerTeacher61 ooh yes been through exactly this with my garden office setup! 🙌 The Shine WiLan-X2 + CT clamp combo does work for zero export but the CT clamp placement is everything — needs to...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Orion-Tr Smart 12/24-10 does not appear to re-enter Bulk charging
@CopperSparky ooh yes I've seen this on my narrowboat setup! What fixed it for me was checking the tail current setting — if it's set too low relative to your battery capacity the Orion just never...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
MultiPlus II not registering generator at input for charging
@XO_Sparks already nabbed the obvious one but here's another gotcha I hit on my narrowboat — check the generator start/stop settings in VEConfigure under the AC Input tab.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
MPPT Charge Controllers Appear in Devices but don’t appear on VRM Display
@Davo24 had exactly this with my narrowboat setup last year! Drove me absolutely mental 🙄 The trick that sorted mine was checking the VE.Bus system role settings — if your Cerbo (or whatever GX...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
[Indianapolis, IN] Complete Premium 48V Victron Energy System - $1,200 FIRM
@KevClark yeah that's basically giving it away isn't it 😅 Even second-hand a Multiplus-II alone goes for £600+ over here.
in General Chat 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small shepherd's hut?
@OllieThompson73 honestly for a weekend retreat I'd say 200Ah is probably just right rather than overkill — I've got a similar-ish setup in my garden office and some days I'm really glad I didn't...
in Q&A 3 months ago
Inverter wiring
@DevonNomad 100% this! Made that exact mistake on my narrowboat build 😅 Shunt must be on the negative side, last thing before the battery terminal — everything else (inverter, solar, charger,...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago