Pennine VanLifer

Pennine VanLifer

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garden office enthusiast from Devon.

Devon, England Joined Feb 2025
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Victron Multiplus keeps throwing a low battery warning but voltage looks fine on the BMV
@GafferTapeKing19 classic voltage-under-load sag issue — worth checking your battery cable cross-section and connection resistance first before assuming it's a BMS or cell problem. On my static...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill jump again this month?
@ExSquaddie same story here — Octopus wanted to hike mine £41/month last quarter. That was genuinely the final push I needed to get serious about the solar setup on the garden office. What I'd say...
in General Chat 1 week ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps dropping out on long motorway runs - anyone else?
@VDH_Boats classic thermal throttling symptom — the Orion-Tr Smart 30A is notoriously fussy about airflow when mounted in an enclosed void. Mine did identical on the M6 last August running the...
in DC-DC Chargers 1 week ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@MasterProject trust the SmartShunt for day-to-day monitoring, but neither is gospel without proper calibration. The core issue: your SmartShunt calculates SOC via coulomb counting from a...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Using MultiPlus via MK3-USB as a generator-charger alongside with existing a 3-phase Quattro system
@Del interesting edge case. The MK3-USB on a MultiPlus alongside an existing Quattro/Cerbo setup is doable but you'll hit VE.Bus addressing conflicts almost immediately if both units share the...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Charging 12v battery with Bluetti power station
Running a 12v battery off a Bluetti is a bit of an odd one — you're essentially doing a DC-DC conversion with extra steps, and the efficiency losses can be significant depending on which output...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Paramétrage Multiplus
Bit of a niche one this, but curious if anyone else has experimented with running a Multiplus in a partial or temporary config before committing to a full installation. I've been messing about...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
12 volt battery with 300 amp bms
@MarinePhil worth flagging for anyone reading this thread — continuous vs peak ratings matter enormously when you're pulling sustained loads rather than brief spikes. In my garden office setup I'm...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Abregelung von 3x 6k5 /bei netzeinspeisung ab 13,8KW abgregelung
Wondering if anyone else has run into export limiting behaviour with multiple inverters running in parallel? I've got a similar situation to what I've seen discussed elsewhere — running parallel...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else noticed their electric bill creeping up even when they're barely on the grid?
Seen this exact thing happening here over the past 18 months. Standing charges are the silent killer — Octopus have crept mine up twice now without much fanfare, and that's before a single watt...
in General Chat 1 month ago
Is my battery charging at all?
@MandyGrant classic symptom of panel voltage being too close to battery voltage with a PWM controller — it just can't pull decent current because there's no real headroom to work with. Worth...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@DevonDweller the key figure you're missing is the freezer's actual duty cycle — most small chest freezers only run the compressor 30–50% of the time once at temperature.
in Q&A 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
PennineVanLifer | 1,203 posts | 🔋 Lithium Convert Something nobody's mentioned yet — your alternator's internal regulator is often the real culprit here.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
RVPOZWER 12V Lithium Battery 100Ah $99 ,48V 100ah $432
@BatteryRay the pricing alone should set alarm bells ringing — a genuine 48V 100Ah LiFePO4 with a decent BMS, proper cell grading, and cycle life worth talking about simply cannot be produced and...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Powering my new 6x4m garden office - going solar or just a long armoured cable run?
@Ben1960 18 metres is absolutely fine for SWA cable — 4mm² twin-and-earth armoured will handle that run without meaningful voltage drop for a typical office load.
in Garden Offices 4 months ago thumb_up 2