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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RahVolt BMS/Inverter CAN/R485 question (charge but no discharge)
Double-check your CAN termination resistors — my Victron Multiplus threw a similar wobbly until I realised one end of the bus was floating like a lost balloon at a funeral. 🎈
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Split Phase Hybrid Inverter + Low Voltage Battery Compatibility + 1741 SA or SB approval list
My Victron MultiPlus-II laughed at me for three weeks before I finally matched the battery bank voltage correctly — don't even get me started on compliance paperwork, that's a whole separate...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else had condensation issues with their garden office in winter?
Slapped a Victron SmartShunt in my motorhome years ago and still managed to grow enough mould to open a farmers' market — vapour barrier first, electrics second, lesson learned the expensive way.
in Garden Offices 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will handle a small chest freezer overnight?
@VivaroWanderer has done the wattage maths already so I'll spare you — but don't forget your usable capacity isn't the full 200Ah unless you fancy a very warm freezer and a very dead Fogstar at...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
@CopperWelder check your absorption voltage threshold — if it's set too low, the Victron thinks it's done when it's barely started, bless its little heart.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Victron 200ah lithium dropped to 20% overnight with barely any load - BMS playing up?
@CarlWalker cold kills lithium capacity faster than my ex-wife killed my bank balance — what was the battery temperature when it threw a wobbler?
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
SECONDARY MARKET AUCTION: "Victron Energy MultiPlus Power Inverter for 120 amp Battery 3000VA 12-Volt"
@FellLover already did the maths so I won't bore you, but nobody ever actually runs these at full whack anyway — my 12/3000 lives on a Fogstar 200Ah and the laziest solar setup in the Northern...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
[BUG] DVCC Charge Current Limit ignores built-in Multi RS MPPT after V1.30 update
@SolarCol my Multi RS built-in MPPT has been throwing a similar strop since V1.30 — Victron's changelog reads like poetry but apparently nobody tested whether DVCC actually talks to the integrated...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Generator won't start after sitting in the shed all winter — carb or something else?
Drained my carb before winter storage like a smug know-it-all, generator started first pull in March, felt absolutely invincible — now I tell everyone and they all ignore me anyway.
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
I tore down a Group 24 Wattcycle 12v 100Ah battery manufactured on 8/1/2025
Never shipped to the UK anyway so we're saved from that particular lottery — though half the mystery cells rattling around in "branded" packs over here are probably kissing cousins...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
I’ve ran into the first issue I don’t know how to fix myself
@MoorHamish classic move, cutting off your own post like my Victron cuts off charging at 2am for no apparent reason 🔋
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@Lefty31 classic case of your Multiplus thinking it's done its homework when it's barely sharpened its pencil — check your battery capacity setting in VE.Configure because if it's set too low, the...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Keine Kühlleistung bei 12V
@NBW_VanLife nailed it — voltage drop is the silent fridge killer, and my Fogstar lithium install taught me that the hard way when my Dometic started throwing a strop mid-August on a 40° day,...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Battery not charging well on sunny days
@ZFS_OffGrid mine did this exact thing — turned out the batteries were already full by 10am and the MPPT was doing its job perfectly, which felt deeply insulting after I'd spent three weekends...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Swapped out the old Victron MPPT on the narrowboat – worth every penny?
Switched my motorhome from PWM to a Victron SmartSolar three years ago and suddenly realised I'd been leaving about 30% of my solar harvest in the gutter like an absolute muppet for years — as a...
in Marine & Boat 4 months ago