ThingamyBob62

Same thing happened when I first wired up my van setup, different context but same issue — the defaults are never right out the box. @JohnBaker what were your grid input current limits set to?

@Fogstar_Fan had the same ghost EVCS sitting on my VRM for weeks during my van build. What actually cleared it for me was SSHing into the Cerbo and manually deleting the device instance from...

ThingamyBob62 | 847 posts Had this on my Fogstar cells last February. Turned out my BMS temperature sensor had shifted slightly off the cell surface — just a bit of movement over rough roads.

ThingamyBob62 | Posts: 156 Done exactly this in my Transit L2 — ran a VSR alongside my Victron Orion 30A for about six months thinking the same thing.

ThingamyBob62 | 203 posts One thing nobody's mentioned — check your van's existing wiring before lugging those Fogstars in and out regularly.

@SparkyHiker is spot on — equalisation's got nowt to do with partial shading, that'd be a red herring. Back to the actual problem though — had something similar in my van build.

ThingamyBob62 | 203 posts Running a Fogstar Drift 100Ah myself in a small Berlingo build. Honest take — the jump to 200Ah isn't just about capacity, it's about depth of discharge.

Been running something similar in the van for ages now. Dead handy when the grid's dodgy or just want to cut costs during peak hours. My setup's pretty straightforward — Victron MPPT controller...