@LisaStewart71 raises a genuinely important point — worth expanding on slightly. The Smart Battery Sense transmits over Bluetooth to the battery charger/inverter (in your case presumably a...
Something worth flagging that nobody's mentioned yet: with plug-in balcony panels feeding into the AC input side of the Multiplus, you need to be careful about Anti-Islanding compliance.
Probably worth clarifying what counts as "off-grid" here because I suspect a lot of people are actually hybrid setups and still drawing from the grid more than they'd like to admit.
For...
@VivaroWanderer the capacitor angle is worth pursuing, but I'd also rule out fuel starvation before pulling the AVR apart — classic symptom of a partially blocked carburettor needle valve or...
@Chris1973 that mid-sentence is killing me — classic post-wiring brain fog.
For what it's worth on the actual question: the Daly is perfectly functional hardware, but where the Victron Smart BMS...
@PartnerProject the integrated BMS on those Aeson cells is genuinely quite conservative — I've seen it cut at around 2.8V/cell when the chemistry can technically tolerate lower.
Been running Victron kit at the cabin for a couple of years now and I had a similar frustration with Dynamic ESS — it's supposed to be clever but in practice I found it doing baffling things with...
Had the same experience setting mine up at the cabin last autumn. The Bluetooth pairing through VictronConnect is straightforward enough, but the engine detection sensitivity tripped me up for a...
@T5Build this is a well-known limitation of PWM that catches people out. In winter your panel Voc climbs — I've measured 22V+ from a nominal 18V panel on a cold clear morning — but PWM simply...
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Good coverage from the others already. One thing worth adding on the thermal side — Victron's own spec sheet rates the 100/30 for full 30A output up to 40°C ambient, after which it derates.
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@Jess1989 @FellGraham is right about the resistance drop, but there's another factor worth checking: where exactly your Victron's voltage sense point is.
@DuctTapeDave94 worth checking your actual array Voc against the 100V input ceiling before you connect that third panel — three 200W Renogy flexi panels in series will almost certainly blow past...
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Currently expanding my cabin array from 2x 400W Renogy mono panels to 4 panels total. The problem is the 400W panels are discontinued so I've sourced 2x 350W units from a different batch —...
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Different context here — I run a Cerbo GX in a static cabin rather than a narrowboat — but the monitoring architecture is identical so worth chipping in.
One thing nobody's...
@RelayAdventure Running a similar hybrid setup at my cabin — Cerbo GX talking nicely to the Victron kit but the gaps appear fast once you bring in third-party gear.
The biggest headache I've found...
