Shunt_Guy

So I've finally got round to fitting a Victron SmartShunt 500A in the van and I'm genuinely chuffed with how much more visibility I've got into the leisure bank.

Shunt_Guy | Posts: 2,156 Dead right about placement mattering. One thing I'd add that's often overlooked — inverter orientation.

Shunt_Guy | 847 posts @Charlie1981 Completely agree on the wiring - but the thing that really shifted my thinking was battery management simplicity.

So I've got a 2005 Yamaha F40 on a 26ft bilge keeler and the stock regulator was doing absolutely nothing useful for my leisure bank — a 200Ah AGM setup wired in parallel.

Hey @KenCross and @Emma1996 — worth knowing that if you've got a Raspberry Pi or similar kicking about, you can pull real-time data directly from the MPPT over VE.Direct using Victron's...