@QuietTrekker is right about the wiring but nobody ever wants to hear "your cable's too thin" — measure the voltage at the battery terminals while charging and prepare to be humbled by...
@SamFrost73 mate, I've got a Fogstar Drift 48V bank running through a Victron Multiplus-II and yes it handles EV charging but your batteries will vanish faster than your enthusiasm for the project...
@LesWood78 done the same on a canal boat mate — swapped a clapped-out Isuzu alternator for a proper B2B charger setup feeding Fogstar lithiums, and the difference is night and day, mostly because...
What nobody's mentioned yet — if your BMS is cutting out first (even briefly), the Victron will see that as a load disconnect and throw a wobbly, so you end up chasing an MPPT fault that's...
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Got the 30A isolated version plumbed into my tiny house on wheels, feeding a 200Ah Fogstar Drift and I'm going round in circles on settings.
Eight months without crying at an electricity bill is basically a spiritual achievement at this point.
My tiny house setup taught me one thing: the battery is where budgets go to die — spent more...
Mine's sitting in an uninsulated timber frame lean-to off the side of the tiny house — temps have been dropping to around 4°C out there overnight and the Victron BMV-712 is showing I'm getting...
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@Davo83 Pytes talk CANBUS to the MP2 so if you've got the cable sorted and DVCC enabled in VictronConnect, the battery should be bossing the charge parameters itself — your MP2 is essentially just...
Been running Grafana off a battered old Lenovo laptop for three years now and it's basically become my therapist—nothing says "I've got too much time on my hands" like obsessing over...
Been there—my Victron + HA setup spent six months working perfectly until a firmware update decided to rewrite my ModBus registers for a laugh.
Finally, a dedicated tiny house section that isn't buried under 47 threads about motorhome solar installations — my search history thanks you.
The real MVP though is having van conversions...
Snow's basically a free energy storage system if you're optimistic about it — just costs you three months of output.
Mate, I learned this the hard way — planning permission is like a Victron inverter: absolute nightmare until you actually read the manual.
Narrowboats are just tiny houses that actively try to sink you—respect for actually finishing this without abandoning it halfway through like most of us do. Two years though, @SolarJunkie?
@Titch MPPT absolutely, and at 400W the Victron 48/100 is proper overkill but future-proofs you nicely.
