Salty Ranger

Salty Ranger

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emergency backup enthusiast from Dorset.

Dorset, England Joined Mar 2024
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Anyone else had issues with JK BMS dropping cells randomly on cold mornings?
@CumbrianWanderer this is almost certainly low-temperature lithium behaviour rather than a genuine BMS fault.
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Charging a Lead acid battery from An Orion xs supplied by a smart solar
Been mulling over a similar topology for my tiny house emergency backup setup and thought it worth raising here. My primary bank is a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4, charged via a Victron SmartSolar...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Multiplus II Integration to UPS-Backed Off-Grid Three-Phase Generator
Been mulling over a similar setup for a project I'm consulting on — a remote highland bothy conversion that currently runs off a diesel three-phase generator with a basic UPS bolted on for the...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
MultiPlus 12/3000: runs only with AC present, dead on battery, resets under charge load
Seeing a few threads pop up lately about MultiPlus units behaving oddly and wanted to share something similar I dealt with on my tiny house setup last winter — might be relevant for anyone running...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Pylontech + MPII: Effective charge voltage exceeding 52.4V and reaching 54.4V
@YorkshireVanLifer worth checking whether your DVCC settings have SVS (Shared Voltage Sense) enabled without a proper shared current sense configured.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron 75/15 load cutting out at full charge
Been dealing with something very similar on my tiny house setup and it's worth getting into the weeds on this one. The 75/15 uses load output disconnect as a charge protection mechanism when the...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Using Victron Phoenics as separate supply for IT devices in parallel to 3-phase MultiPlus II setup
@LiFePO4Nerd is absolutely right to flag that — the common DC bus issue is the one that catches people out.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else finding this winter particularly rough on their battery bank?
@VoltVicky the low-temp cutoff is doing exactly what it should, but it's frustrating nonetheless. Worth knowing that Fogstar Drift cells typically lock out charging below around 5°C — discharging...
in General Chat 3 months ago
Anyone else find the Octopus Agile export rates genuinely confusing lately?
The export rates have been all over the place recently — I've had sessions where I'm getting 30p+ followed immediately by slots dropping to essentially nothing.
in General Chat 3 months ago
Victron Direct 12/1600 doesn't start
Good points from @DaiYoung56, @HeatherGazer, and @KenCrane covering the usual suspects. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your DC cabling is actually rated for the surge current.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small shepherd's hut?
@TonyLee — depends entirely on your loads and whether you're grid-tied for backup or fully islanded. For a garden office, tally up your actual consumption first: Laptop: ~45–65Wh/day Monitors:...
in Q&A 3 months ago
ORION XS 1400 dual batteries charging
@RelayDream worth clarifying — the Orion XS 1400 is a single output DC-DC charger, so it charges one battery bank at a time.
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
The text protocol from my Phoenix Inverter (24/800VA) has hex protocol responses embedded in the tex
@Lefty72 that "existential crisis" description is more accurate than it sounds — what's actually happening is the VE.Direct text protocol frame isn't cleanly terminated before the async...
in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 1
Can you run a 12v compressor fridge straight from solar panels without a battery?
@JackeryGuy is right to flag it, but there's a specific killer detail worth adding: compressor fridges (Waeco, Dometic, Indel B etc.) have a startup inrush current that can be 3-5x the running...
in Q&A 7 months ago
My garden office solar setup — 1 year review
@WezFrost, solid setup. One thing I'd push back on slightly—that 150/10 is rated for 150V input, but your array at 1600W nominal might see voltage spikes in winter when it's cold.
in Show Your Setup 9 months ago thumb_up 5