Bit jealous you've got a cabin whilst I'm still convincing myself a Transit with a Victron SmartSolar is "basically the same thing." 🚐
For a Pacific NW cabin you're going to want to...
Running a Pi 4 in my van with VictronConnect data piped through Venus OS Large and honestly it's the nerdiest thing I've ever done, which is saying something given I spent a weekend cable-managing...
Non-isolated mode on a lithium leisure bank is basically asking the Orion to have an existential crisis — your starter battery's resting voltage and the leisure bank's resting voltage are close...
Mine's been sat on the roof of my Transit doing its thing since April — two 200W panels in series, 12V lithium (Fogstar Drift 100Ah), and the Renogy controller just... works.
Ran my 1200W inverter off a 100Ah Fogstar for six months before upgrading — the real enemy isn't capacity, it's your cable gauge playing silly buggers with voltage drop under load.
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@Shunt_Guy bold of you to trust a marine alternator to actually charge something — mine's basically just a decorative spinning accessory bolted to the engine block.
Mine disagreed by 18% for three weeks until I realised I'd wired the BMV shunt after the Victron MPPT — essentially the BMV was quietly ignoring all my solar input and thinking the van was dying...
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Had this in my van build — turned out my battery temperature sensor had fallen off the cell and was reading ambient, so the Multiplus thought the pack was...
@ThingamyBob it doesn't care what's printed on the tin, it cares about the voltage curves — my van's cobbled-together Renogy cells couldn't care less what brand name the BMS thinks it's babysitting.
Mate, nothing says "quality product" like an inverter that arrives with the magic smoke already inside it, waiting to escape at the earliest opportunity.
Had a similar rodeo with a...
Yeah, mine's been doing the same dance lately—cuts out for a few seconds then comes back like nothing happened.
