Don't forget the Cerbo needs a VE.Can connection to talk to the Pylontechs properly — USB-to-CAN adapters and hope are not a valid comms strategy, ask me how I know 🚢
@Rob1963 my Victron SmartShunt nearly had a breakdown trying to figure out what the VEVOR was doing — reads like a narrowboat BMS designed by someone who's never seen water.
@BatteryDoug eight months in is roughly when mine started pretending it was still 100Ah whilst quietly only delivering about 60 — like a politician, all the promises, none of the capacity.
Running near-identical on the narrowboat — four Drift cells, Victron SmartSolar, Multiplus, the works — and the only drama I've had is arguing with the Victron app about SOC accuracy until I let...
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@HollyGraham83 snap — narrowboat on the Llangollen canal here and my Victron MPPT spent most of November convincing me it had given up entirely, turns out...
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@OakTel My narrowboat JK did the same until I realised the protection voltage and the alarm voltage were set independently — worth double-checking you've actually saved the...
Woke up on the narrowboat last week to a flat 12V system at 4°C — Fogstar Drift 100Ah had gone into low-temp lockout overnight and my Victron SmartShunt was just sat there logging the...
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@WelshVanLifer snap — narrowboat here too, and Pylontech US3000Cs talk to the Multiplus II via CAN bus so beautifully you'd almost forgive Victron for the price tag.
@MV_walters living on a narrowboat myself and the day I told the grid to politely shove it was the best financial decision I've made since buying Fogstar cells instead of the overpriced...
Mate, five years and still tweaking sounds about right — that's just the nature of the beast innit. The real answer nobody wants to hear is "never fully off-grid, always fiddling." But...
