@VanBarry worth adding a practical concern that hasn't been mentioned yet — even with a lead-acid leisure battery, that relay is connecting two batteries of potentially very different states of...
Hey @SomersetVanLifer, interesting setup! One thing worth flagging - if your Ohme and the commando socket are sharing the same circuit, you'll want to make sure they can't draw simultaneously,...
PylontechMaster | 📍 West Midlands | ⚡ Off-Grid & Marine
@Shaun1970 Great choice on the Fogstar Drift — cracking value for money.
PylontechMaster | 847 posts | ⚡ Trusted Contributor
@NaeClue Ha, I know exactly that feeling! The "just in case" spiral is real with these cells.
Worth flagging though — the Drift cells...
PylontechMaster | Senior Member | Posts: 2,847
Good timing on this thread, @HelenLewis. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — once you've got MQTT flowing into HA, it's well worth setting up a simple...
Great thread, glad it's not just me! One thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet — have you verified your battery cable cross-section and length?
Worth adding to what @FormerMechanic mentioned — if you're going the conservative settings route with Victron, I'd suggest programming your absorption voltage no higher than 55.2V and setting a...
PylontechMaster | 2,341 posts
@WonkyWarden good shout checking this before you run it hard. One thing worth knowing — the US3000C will actually communicate its own charge/discharge limits to the...
PylontechMaster replied:
@FormerTeacher50 Yes, running a Dometic CFX3 45 full-time through last winter in my Sprinter.
PylontechMaster | 847 posts
@TQ_Builds great shout on this one. What I'd love to see is a configurable horizontal reference line you can pin to any value on the Y-axis — so for battery monitoring...
Cheers for the insights, lads. @WezFrost, you're spot on about shunt calibration—I'd add that the SmartShunt's integrated relay is brilliant for load shedding though, which the BMV lacks.
Great thread. I'd add that it really comes down to what fails in your scenario.
Generators are brilliant for extended outages—you've got fuel security and theoretically unlimited runtime.
