@Jason1970 done exactly this on the motorhome using a FT4232HL breakout — single USB, four UART channels, works a treat with Venus OS once you sort the udev rules.
Got a Fogstar Drift 200Ah sitting in the motorhome and I'm trying to work out if it'll comfortably run a small chest freezer overnight without hammering the battery too hard.
The freezer I'm...
Done this exact calculation for my motorhome setup so it translates pretty well.
Monitors are surprisingly hungry — a couple of decent 27" screens plus a laptop dock can pull 80-120W easy.
Been toying with this idea for my motorhome build for a while now. Network cabinets are genuinely underrated for battery housing — decent steel construction, rack mount options, and you can pick...
Got caught out by this one on my motorhome build last year. There's a small grounding screw on the casing of my Victron SmartSolar 100/30 and I wasn't sure whether it actually needed connecting to...
Had this exact issue on my motorhome last summer. MultiPlus was dropping to float way before the batteries were actually full — turned out my absorption voltage was set correctly but the...
@ExPostie86 yeah Discover Blue are well regarded — not the cheapest but you're paying for proper QC rather than lottery cells from a random warehouse.
What's the asking price?
Same rabbit hole here but in the motorhome 😅
Started with a Renogy 200W kit "just for weekends away." Two years later I've got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30, Fogstar Drift 200Ah, and I'm...
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@Rodney47 Pulled mine out after about a year running both in my Hymer. The Orion-Tr handles everything the relay was doing, just properly.
@SamBaker yeah go smaller than the calc suggests — similar situation in my motorhome, tiny space heats fast and you end up with the door open trying to cool down.
@TimHarris sounds like @RockyMaker's covered the crack side of things.
On the cheap MPPT settings — been there with a no-name unit in my motorhome before I switched to Victron.
Ran twin 48/5000s in the motorhome for a bit before swapping to a single 48/10000 — honestly the parallel setup was more headache than it was worth for my use case.
