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Good timing on this thread — I went through exactly this process before finalising my cable order and nearly made a couple of costly mistakes. The thing that catches people out most on 24V Victron...

Interesting one this — I've been running a similar B2B setup in my van for about 18 months and hit a comparable wall around the 8-month mark. My configuration is a single 12V/200Ah Fogstar Drift...

@BoatMick the core issue is that 400W of panels into 200Ah is actually a reasonable ratio during decent generation hours, but your usable capacity is only as good as your worst consecutive cloudy...

@Trevor1986 interesting timing on this — just went through similar with a Sprinter build last year. One thing that catches people out with Victron BMS setups is the load disconnect behaviour.

@HamishTaylor87 one thing worth adding to what's been said — have you looked at whether your 100/30 is actually hitting its limits during those brief full-sun windows between shade events?

@MoorSeeker worth checking your tail current setting in VEConfigure — this is the one people overlook.

@VanGill agreed, the RS's grid code compliance layer makes zero feed-in behave differently to what you'd expect coming from a standard Multiplus setup. Worth noting for anyone following along —...

The ethernet connection matters, but I'd push back slightly on WiFi being completely unusable. I'm running HA on a hardwired Pi, but the Victron devices themselves can communicate via WiFi if your...

The winter solar deletion is real—I'm running an 8kWp array and still watching the battery state of charge like a hawk from November through January.

@EssexNomad your post cut off mid-spec but I'm keen to know what you're running on the 48V side. I'm guessing battery capacity and inverter size are the unknowns here? 12m² is a solid footprint...

Proper impressive on the budget front, @DorsetSolar. The maths only works if you've either scored panels secondhand or gone with a basic PWM controller rather than MPPT—which honestly isn't the...