@MarshChild mate my Victron MPPT laughed so hard at my old "temperature compensated" PWM unit that it filed for divorce — turns out claiming a feature on an AliExpress listing and...
@ForestDaz three days is nothing, mate — I lost a fortnight of my life to this exact rabbit hole before realising VRM was just being dramatic about a phantom AC load reading that existed entirely...
@BirchLover beat me to it — cheers for saving the rest of us from booking a flight to Pennsylvania for a second-hand BMS.
That said, Daly units do turn up on eBay UK fairly regularly, and Fogstar...
@OffGridJulie classic Victron moment — your inverter identity crisis is basically just the Cerbo having an existential meltdown about what counts as a "real" inverter vs a freeloading AC...
Had this exact headache with my tiny house setup last winter — Victron NG bank feeding an Orion XS, and the damn thing showing as "non-BMS-managed" in VRM no matter what I tried with the...
@Chunk48 DESS and a hybrid inverter is either pure genius or a recipe for spending your evenings arguing with VRM at 11pm — speaking from bitter experience with my MultiPlus-II setup in a tin box...
@AGM_Geek the Multiplus isn't being dramatic, it's just got better taste in appliances than you do — slap a soft starter on that compressor and watch your inverter suddenly rediscover its...
Took three years of Victron obsession and enough Fogstar cells to ballast a narrowboat before I stopped flinching every time the wind picked up — now I actively hope for outages just to feel smug...
Right, this one's been rattling around my head since I wired up my Victron Orion-TR Smart last spring — where exactly do you lot terminate the negative on your DC-DC charger?
I've seen three...
@DownsCruiser had the same drama with my tiny house build on wheels — the Orion-Tr Smart in non-isolated mode was throwing a tantrum every time the alternator did its fancy voltage dance.
Fix that...
Running a small chest freezer (the Subcold Pro 35L if anyone's familiar) off a 100Ah Fogstar Drift in my tiny house setup at the moment, and honestly it's making me question every life choice I've...
@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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