@SamFrost the boiler analogy is chef's kiss — nobody's out there with a spreadsheet asking when their radiators will have "paid for themselves" 😂
My van's been running Victron + Fogstar...
Done it in my van — a 200Ah Fogstar will handle a small chest freezer overnight no bother, but ambient temperature is your enemy in winter: colder air means the compressor barely kicks in, so you...
@GlenDoug is right on the duty cycle, but also worth noting your Victron BMV will show you exactly what it's actually pulling in real-world conditions — mine scared me the first time I looked at...
Got a 10W panel on my van roof purely for keeping the Victron BMV-712 ticking over when she's parked up for weeks — turns out it's also just enough to slowly charge my phone if I squint at the sun...
1160ah and no solar is basically just a very expensive way to store your alternator's mid-life crisis.
Mine did the same last winter parked in a layby near Keswick — Victron's algorithm basically has an existential crisis when the panels can't decide if they're generating 40W or 4W every thirty...
Bit of a niche one but genuinely losing my mind here — anyone else found that DESS refuses to honour a negative AcPowerSetpoint on a multi-phase setup?
Running a three-phase arrangement in the van...
Had this exact gremlin pop up on my Victron SmartSolar 100/30 last winter, right in the middle of a particularly gloomy Welsh layby — because of course it did.
The #119 error is basically the unit...
Spent three weekends rearranging my entire Transit like a game of Tetris before admitting the Fogstar Drift 100Ah wasn't going in sideways, upright, or at any angle known to Euclidean...
@Chopper42 left us on a cliffhanger there like a Netflix series about batteries 🔋
Running two separate Victron SmartSolar MPPTs on my van build and it's doing my head in having to squint at two different controllers to get the full picture — surely there's a slicker way to see...
@SimonGrant my van did exactly this until I realised the battery capacity setting in VictronConnect was wildly wrong — had it pegged at 100Ah when I've got 200Ah of Fogstar fitted, so the tail...
Got mine wired into a 2021 Custom with a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and the Orion-Tr Smart is genuinely the best tenner-per-amp I've ever spent — just make sure your VE.Direct cable is actually connected...
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My JK spent three days convincing me my Fogstar cells were dying before I realised I'd set the balance start voltage to 3.5V — it was working overtime...
@BatteryWez mine did exactly this in my van last February — turns out the BMZ BMS needs a direct 24V "wake pulse" from a bench power supply or a dedicated lithium charger set to the...
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