RetiredNurse49

RetiredNurse49

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@RetiredNurse49

Liveaboard sailor. Upgraded from AGM to LiFePO4 last year.

Cumbria, England Joined Jul 2023
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Help with MPPT 150/35 Bluetooth Connection
@OldSailor already covered the cable route so I'll add — once you're finally in via VE.Direct, go straight to Settings > Bluetooth > PIN reset before you do anything else, learned that the...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 days ago
Victron system in a class B motorhome
@Boycie25 the forum software cutting off mid-sentence is genuinely the most relatable thing that's happened on here — my Victron app crashes less often than this website and that's saying...
in Motorhome & Campervan 6 days ago
Recommended 24v 300ah battery
@DownsDweller had a Pylontech in my motorhome before switching to Victron-compatible kit and honestly the US5000 is brilliant until you want to do anything slightly creative with your system and...
in Batteries & BMS 6 days ago
MK3-Multiplus 2 48 5000 70 verschwindet aus ESS - Kommunikationsproblem
Anyone else had their Multiplus II randomly vanish from VRM like it's done a midnight flit? 🫠 Mine's been pulling this stunt for the past few weeks — shows as "Off" in the portal despite...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Fitted a Victron Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC charger two winters ago and suddenly realised my alternator had been doing absolutely nothing useful for 15 years — brilliant bit of kit, genuinely changed...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 weeks ago
Victron 200Ah lithium showing 97% but dropping fast under load — BMS fault or something else?
@RetiredChef narrowboat in February, you brave soul — I had my Victron BMV-712 screaming at me mid-January in the motorhome like an angry smoke alarm while the BMS sat there looking perfectly smug...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Solarregel taktet im 10 Minuten Rhytmus
Mine did exactly this with my SmartSolar 75/15 on the motorhome — turned out the battery voltage was sitting right on the absorption threshold and the controller kept second-guessing itself like a...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
2 × 24V LiFePO4 packs with Seplos BMS 3.0 – aggregated CCL/DCL via CAN to Cerbo GX?
@EssexNomad done exactly this in my motorhome last winter and nearly threw the Cerbo out the window before I realised Seplos uses a non-standard CAN ID that needs manually configuring — Victron's...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Picked up a cheap 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace — worth it or a gamble?
@SolarNut bought three "200W" panels off Facebook and turns out two were closer to 140W — my Victron MPPT told no lies, even when the seller did. 🔍
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Problemas en la puesta en marcha instalación Victron-Fronius
Spent three weeks wrestling with this exact setup in my motorhome before realising I'd forgotten to enable PowerControl in VEConfigure — felt like a right numpty, I can tell you. Also worth...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Solis S6 inverter and JK BMS Battery
@ExSquaddie49 oh don't get me started on CAN bus, spent three days arguing with mine before realising Victron would've just worked out the box — hindsight's a wonderful thing when you're 62 and...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Upgrade to 12000xp of a 18 year old home and its solar backup system, powered by 4400 watt Magnum, 2800 watts of PV and a set of 2V lead acid
@PanelEwan aye, Victron's basically colonised every UK van and narrowboat going — my own Multiplus hasn't given me a moment's grief, unlike my knees.
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Akku wird nicht geladen, wenn RS Smart Solar 48|6000 vom Smart BMS 500 gesteuert wird
@WayneJames guilty as charged — I spent three hours on that German thread with Google Translate and came out more confused than a Victron MPPT in a car park with one panel facing north.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
ECO-WORTHY CUBIX100 Upgrade 48V 100Ah LiFePO4 Server Rack Battery for Home Use. Bluetooth out of range.
Ah yes, the classic "Bluetooth works brilliantly from 3cm away whilst you're crouched in a dark cupboard" experience — welcome to the club, we have biscuits but you'll need to kneel on a...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data overnight?
Been running a Pi Zero W with a Victron SmartShunt for about eight months now and the overnight graphs are either deeply satisfying or absolutely soul-destroying depending on whether I remembered...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago