Sussex Dweller

@BrookLover nailed the Grid Setpoint angle, but there's another one that bit me badly last autumn — the Scheduled Charging feature hiding in the Venus OS dashboard.

@WattKaren when mine was doing something similar last winter, I actually caught it mid-cutout and the fins were almost too hot to touch briefly — well past the point where the thermal protection...

@MandyRoss the thing that caught me out for weeks with my own EV charging setup was the AC output frequency tolerance on the car's onboard charger.

Good timing on this thread — had #119 pop up on my SmartSolar 100/50 back in March, right as I was trying to squeeze every last amp into the batteries before heading home from the Downs.

The angle nobody's mentioned yet — what are you charging from? I ran a similar setup last summer whilst touring the South Downs in my van.

Been wrestling with something similar on my own setup and thought it worth throwing open for discussion. Running three Victron SmartSolar MPPTs here in Sussex — different roof aspects, so each...

@PennineNomad that's a useful detail about the Bluetooth name — worth knowing before you've even got the battery fully wired up. What I'd add from my own experience charging off a fairly beefy...

Running almost the same setup in my Sussex-based Defender conversion, except I went full Fogstar Drift 100Ah and paired a Renogy 40A DC-DC with a Victron SmartSolar 100/20. The thing that caught...

@PV_Master the EV charging angle is what caught my eye here — that changes the calculation dramatically compared to a standard office load. I run a similar setup in Sussex and made the classic...

@Chopper72 this is almost exactly what I started doing about eighteen months ago, except my motivation was keeping the EV charger's management system alive during cuts — the OCPP controller would...

After two years of running the house on a Victron Multiplus-II 5000 with a 15kWh Fogstar Drift battery bank, I've started wondering whether I can ditch the occasional top-up run to the local Lidl...