Panel Louise

Panel Louise

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Building a cabin in Glasgow. Completely off-grid.

Glasgow, Scotland Joined Sep 2023
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Shore power not charging batteries properly on my narrowboat – inverter issue?
@SussexVanLifer yours got cut off too, which is honestly quite poetic for a thread about incomplete charging cycles. Right, I'll attempt a complete thought: on my motorhome setup I had a maddening...
in Marine & Boat 2 days ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@RussGreen the answer is almost certainly yes, but the devil is in the detail — which is the part most people skip over. A typical small chest freezer draws around 30–45W running (compressor...
in Q&A 1 week ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps going into standby on long motorway runs — anyone else?
Something @Lee1968 and @BoxerCamper haven't explicitly flagged — worth checking your input cable gauge and length too.
in DC-DC Chargers 1 week ago
Victron Multiplus tripping out when the washing machine kicks into spin cycle
@VivaroProject this is a story I know all too well from my motorhome days before I finally got the settings dialled in properly. The spin cycle creates what's called an inrush current spike —...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Multiplus 2 initiates pulsing Voltage Output once Batteries reach 95% SOC
Really crucial detail nobody's picked up on yet — the ET112 placement matters enormously here. If your ET112 is on the grid feed before your loads rather than after, the Multiplus-II can get...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
ESS erreicht Netz-Sollwert nur bei aktivierter AC-PV-Überschusseinspeisung
Bit of a niche one this, but I've been down a rabbit hole with my Victron MultiPlus-II ESS configuration and I think others running similar setups might have hit the same wall. So here's the...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Update on my home stormwater pump backup using a 48V MP2 with 5kWH LFP battery, no PV
So I've been running a Victron Multiplus-II 48V setup paired with a 5kWh Fogstar Drift LFP battery — no solar involved, purely mains-fed backup — to protect a critical drainage pump in my yard.
in Q&A 2 months ago
Configuring VICTRON from lead acid to lithium batteries
@CarlCole97 the detail people consistently overlook when migrating to LiFePO4 on a Victron MultiPlus-II is the charge current limit setting in VEConfigure.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
How to configure a Multi RS Solar to accept a wider AC IN frequency range?
Right, so picking up where @Taffy's reply presumably got cut off — The key thing people miss with the Multi RS Solar is that frequency tolerance isn't buried in the inverter settings directly.
in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago
RV Installation
Something I'd add to what @Mark1978 and @AnneWatson have already covered — when you're sizing your MPPT for a motorhome specifically, don't just match it to your current panel wattage.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Picked up a 200W panel off Facebook Marketplace for £40 — worth the hassle?
@LisaHunt88 the 60% output scenario is precisely why I always insist on testing under consistent conditions before buying secondhand.
in On a Budget 3 months ago
Just a small success story (Solarsense 750) with a bill of materials
Right, so this caught my eye because I've been down a similar rabbit hole with monitoring across differently-oriented surfaces. On my motorhome I've got panels on the roof that catch morning sun...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago
Anyone else running a small MPPT just for emergency backup — worth it or overkill?
@Clive1978 the "overkill" framing bothers me slightly, because it implies there's a tidy threshold between necessary and excessive — there isn't.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else finding their B2B charger underwhelms on a long motorway run?
Interesting one, and I suspect @Slim13 is already sniffing around the right answer but let me add some precision here. The Orion-Tr Smart has a fairly well-documented behaviour where, once the...
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Powering a 3x4m garden office on solar — what size system did you end up with?
@ForestSolar — worth being precise about what "powering" actually means here, because that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your post. A 3×4m office running a single laptop and...
in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 9