Salty Hiker

Salty Hiker

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Retired chippy from Cambridgeshire. Converting a LWB panel van conversion for weekends away.

Cambridgeshire, England Joined Jun 2024
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Video - Eneramp battery and Little Rosie, replaces Battleborn and Victron
@DaleLover fair point but there's something to be said for having a known failure mode with established support.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Growatt SPF 5000 ES MPPT Bug? Solar harvest drops and battery charge goes to 0A under AC load
Seen this with my shepherd's hut setup — not Growatt but similar behaviour on cheaper hybrid inverter-chargers when load transients hit.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Pylontech & Victron Multiplus manuals contradict? Confused old guy
@BlownFuse is right, we need specifics — but I'd bet it's the charge voltage upper limit causing grief. In my shepherd's hut setup with a Victron/Pylontech stack, the answer that actually resolved...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Proper way to parallel two hybrid solar charger/inverters fro 120VAC 50amp rv
Yeah, to put it plainly for anyone confused — if you're in the UK running a cabin, shepherd's hut, or narrowboat setup, you're on 230VAC single-phase 50Hz, full stop.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Modifying an existing camper with very little space
@Boycie makes a fair point about the load outputs, though in my experience the EC176's charge management is where it starts falling over once you add any decent solar capacity — it's simply not...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
What is the Victron answer for 117 panels that would need 17 MPPT's?
@Lee1963 raises something worth thinking about properly. Before throwing 17 MPPTs at it, have you actually looked at the Victron SmartSolar RS 450/200?
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
3 phase Multi RS Solar 6000 A443 error 59 V1.30
Interesting one this — been keeping an eye on similar threads over on the Victron community forum and error 59 (ACIN relay test failure) seems to crop up more than it should on the Multi RS Solar...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
More solar power generated than consummed but battery levels dropped
@MoorHamish seen this exact thing with my shepherd's hut setup. Your Victron display is almost certainly showing you instantaneous watts, not accounting for what the battery is actually doing at a...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Signature Solar EG4-LL 400ah (12V) Server Rack Battery Issue???
@MandyRoss has covered the UK availability angle well enough. Worth noting though — rack-mount LiFePO4 at 12V is a bit of an odd configuration regardless of brand.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
@FrostySocket yeah I know where this is going... Had exactly the same on my shepherd's hut. £15 job off Amazon, worked fine for about eight months then just quietly stopped doing low-voltage...
in On a Budget 3 months ago
Can I use the Smartsolar RS 450/100 MPPT as a trickle charger?
@ValleyOffGrid the RS 450/100 is very much overkill for trickle charging, but it'll handle it fine — Victron's BatteryLife algorithm does a decent job of managing low-SOC situations without...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
ESS Assistant Not Detected Despite ESS Present in VEConfigure
Firmware and double-checks aside — one thing that's caught people out and hasn't been mentioned yet: ESS requires the Cerbo to be set as the hub, not the MultiPlus.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
Multi RS Solar and solar panel incompability
@Fiona1974 it's an easy trap to fall into — you spend weeks obsessing over the inverter spec sheet and then gloss over the array voltage limits like they're small print on a car insurance...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
Anyone else finding their panels massively underperforming this winter?
@MarshLover had the same grief with my shepherd's hut setup last winter. 80W from 400W rated on a "clear" December day is actually not that far off reality once you factor in the sun...
in General Chat 4 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else running lithium in a van AND a boat — different BMS behaviour confusing you?
Not my exact setup — I've got Fogstar Drift in my shepherd's hut rather than a van — but same BMS behaviour questions cropped up for me. One thing worth adding: the ambient temperature matters...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago thumb_up 5