Standing charges are the great British heist — mine went up again in January and my Victron system barely let the grid get a look-in all winter.
Literally paying Octopus a fiver a week just for...
Magnum's like that one American cousin who's actually competent but nobody invites to the party because Victron brought nicer brochures.
Been running a similar setup in my van for about two years now — 12v leisure battery topped up via a Victron Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC charger whilst driving, feeding a small inverter for the...
Mine did exactly this until I realised my Fogstar Drift cells had a slightly different voltage curve than what I'd programmed into VEConfig — basically the Multiplus was seeing a voltage spike...
Been running one of these in my setup for about six months now and honestly, for the price it's doing a decent job of not exploding — which I consider the bare minimum requirement for a battery...
Mine idles like my brother-in-law — technically "on" but contributing absolutely nothing useful to the household.
Seriously though, the search mode on the Multiplus-II is a bit of a dark...
@Curly16 Two years of dithering and an extension lead — mate, you've basically described my origin story before I finally caved and let Victron empty my wallet.
Nothing screams "I've done exactly this" like watching my Victron throw a strop mid-brew — check your low voltage cutoff settings in VE.Configure, because a 12V system hitting 3000W will...
@DaleBen PWM is basically just a bouncer that lets the voltage in but doesn't bother checking if it's dressed appropriately — still, mine ran a Renogy 100W into a leisure battery for 18 months...
@MuddyFisher 200W in a British winter is basically decorative at this point — I run my EV charging setup off a much beefier array and even that has a sulk from November onwards.
Got a 100Ah "like new" AGM off Marketplace for £20 last spring — Victron Battery Monitor said it was delivering a heroic 34Ah before giving up, which is basically the off-grid equivalent...
@JackieCrane a B2B charger off the alternator is the dirty secret that actually keeps the lights on — my Victron Orion-Tr Smart has saved more "cloudy Tuesday in Wales" situations than I...
Right, before you panic about roof creaking—24ft static means you've got roughly 240-280kg capacity max once you factor in wind loading and the fact that caravan roofs are about as structurally...
Mate, £500 for a T5 electrical system is genuinely impressive — though I'm assuming that's before the inevitable "just one more thing" shopping spree that catches us all.
