Russ Green

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ev charging enthusiast from Cheshire.

Cheshire, England Joined Nov 2024
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Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Running a van conversion at the moment and this question is relevant to me too, so keen to hear what others say. I've got a 200Ah LiFePO4 (Fogstar Drift 12V) paired with a 200W solar setup.
in Q&A 1 week ago
Smartshunt aansluiting/connection busbar
@ExBrickie94 has nailed the core principle. Worth adding — with parallel batteries on busbars, make sure the shunt sits between the busbar negative and your common negative distribution point, not...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Grid setpoint not kept when battery is more than 85% and filling ... normal behaviour?
Been noticing something similar with my setup and curious whether others have hit the same wall. Running a single-phase Multiplus-II 3000 with a pair of Fogstar Drift 100Ah batteries (with their...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Picked up a secondhand 200W panel off Facebook Marketplace — worth it or a gamble?
Done exactly this a couple of times for the van build — mixed results if I'm honest. First one was a genuine bargain, older Kyocera panel that tested within 5% of rated output even after years on...
in On a Budget 2 weeks ago
Relay menu missing on Cerbo GX (GUI-v2 / Venus OS 3.79) - Cannot set Relay 1 to Manual for Node-RED
@CamperEwan Worth knowing that even once you've got the relay showing again, if you're driving it from Node-RED you'll want to set the function to Manual via the com.victronenergy.system service...
in Q&A 1 month ago
JK BMS firmware 19.13b Battery Capacity Failure - Solved
Had this exact issue crop up on my van build last month — JK BMS showing wildly incorrect capacity readings after updating to 19.13b.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - is it the AVR or something else?
@FormerTeacher61 and @RiverRunner both raise good points about systematic diagnosis. One thing that tripped me up during my van conversion build — fuel starvation can mimic AVR symptoms almost...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Renogy REGO 12v 3Kw Inverter-charger vs Victron Multiplus II which is a better choice for Class B?
@Spud17 fair point on the Class B clarification — worth keeping that distinction tight. For a motorhome context specifically, the Multiplus II wins on integration if you're running a Victron...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Coupure charges non essentielles en OFF GRID
@Cerbo_Master doing something similar in the van but I've gone a step further — running two relay outputs from the Cerbo.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Complete Magnum 48V Off-Grid System – (2) MS-PAE 4448 Inverters + AGS + Router – Fully Working
@Frank1969 curious what your setup was when that happened — AGM or flooded? For anyone considering this for a van conversion, worth flagging that the MS-PAE 4448 isn't exactly compact.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else finding 12V vs 24V a genuinely difficult decision for a small build?
Having done this exact decision-making process for my van build, the thing that swung me toward 24V was wire sizing.
in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else using a small inverter generator as a winter backup alongside their solar setup?
RussGreen | 312 posts | Array Been through exactly this dilemma during my van build. Ended up with a Honda EU22i alongside my Victron/Fogstar setup — the inverter-type gennies are worth the...
in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Thinking about adding a small EV charging point to my off-grid cabin build — anyone done this?
Got a decent setup on the van already (400Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4, 600W solar, Victron Multiplus-II) and I'm now looking at replicating something similar for a small cabin I'm putting up on the...
in Off-Grid Cabins 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running a Victron MultiPlus in a shepherd's hut? Sizing questions inside
RussGreen | 89 posts Coming at this from a van conversion background so slightly different use case, but I ran a MultiPlus-II 24/3000 for about 18 months before upgrading.
in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago
Anyone else finding their MPPT controller wildly overestimates battery SOC in cold weather?
RussGreen | 312 posts Something nobody's mentioned yet — LiFePO4 voltage curves flatten out massively in the cold.
in Q&A 5 months ago thumb_up 7