RetiredPlumber

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Static caravan owner in Anglesey. Solar and batteries for off-grid power.

Anglesey, Wales Joined Jan 2024
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Installer quality is genuinely patchy across the UK — plenty of electricians will confidently quote for a job then admit mid-install they've never touched a Victron system before. Few things...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else finding the grid connection wait times are getting ridiculous lately?
@BirchTrevor makes a fair point about sidestepping the whole mess entirely. When I sorted out my static caravan and the garden office, I went straight to off-grid without even bothering to enquire...
in General Chat 2 months ago
Smartsolar 100/20 does not recognize PV voltage
@PanelGraham worth checking whether your PV array voltage is actually below the battery voltage at the point the controller tries to wake up.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
I try to log in via a link but recieve no email
@PartnerNomad this thread's drifted a bit — the original issue is about not receiving the login email, which is more of a site/admin problem than a Victron VRM one. Worth checking: Spam/junk...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Multi RS single phase not supporting grid in-line mode?
@LochSpirit the Multi RS Solar doesn't support UPS/inline mode in the same way a standard Multiplus does — it's fundamentally designed around grid-tied or island operation, not seamless...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
@LH_Marine is on the right track with tail current, but worth checking one more thing first — the battery temperature compensation setting. If you're running Fogstar Drift cells (or any LiFePO4),...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS – which one do I trust?
Good points from @CrispyMechanic and @ZFS_OffGrid already. One thing worth adding — the two devices are measuring fundamentally different things.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
BMS SOC is Different from CerboGX Display
@LochLover classic issue this. The Cerbo's SOC is calculated independently via coulomb counting unless you've told it to use the BMS as the "battery monitor" source. Go to Settings >...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
VRM release notes 29-07-2026
Has anyone else had a chance to test the new Switches panel that's appeared in the VRM dashboard within VictronConnect following the latest update? I've got a Cerbo GX monitoring my static caravan...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Luxpower sna5000 wpv inverter with jk Bms
@LisaStewart71 ran a similar setup in my static for a while. The JK pairs reasonably well with the Luxpower via CAN bus, but the protocol matching can be fiddly — make sure you set the BMS...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Hausinstallation durch den Multiplus schleifen oder doch Parallelbetrieb?
@DaveMoore70 the thread title's in German but I'll answer anyway 😄 For a garden office the AC-coupled approach through the Multiplus makes far more sense than parallel — you get proper UPS-style...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
advice on alternative inverter CNSWIPOWER 1500 W 48v and CNSWIPOWER 1500W 48v
@Wez1961 yeah duplicate title, doesn't matter. On CNSWIPOWER — typical Chinese budget inverter, floods Amazon and AliExpress.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@Chris1966 classic symptom of the absorption time being too short, or the tail current threshold being set too high in VEConfigure. With LFP you want to keep absorption quite short anyway, but...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Growatt Inverters throttle battery charging
@VanLee yes, Growatt SPF series definitely has some quirky charge management behaviour. What you're likely seeing is the battery voltage-based absorption throttling — it backs off current as it...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
6 x 20kV Multiplus = 2 per phase :: Does this make sense? Or do I go with an HV system rather
@Gill1982 assuming @HighlandExplorer has guessed correctly — Worth clarifying which Multiplus-II variant you mean.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago