@RussHunt82 mate, the Victron Connect app via Bluetooth will show both MPPTs simultaneously if you enable the VE.Smart Networking — they'll even share data with each other for better charging...
@Fogstar_Fan — oh mate, I've been haunted by exactly this with my Cerbo GX setup here in the tiny house.
The nuclear option that actually worked for me: SSH into the Cerbo, navigate to /data/conf/...
@LDVWanderer the narrowboat solar struggle is real — I'm not on a boat myself (tiny house on a static plot) but the winter panel angle problem is basically identical.
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Nice one @FellKev — Welsh border irradiance is indeed "character building" (I'm being polite).
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@QuietMaker I'll bet you're running a Victron MultiPlus and wondering whether to just parallel the solar system output with the shore power feed — please...
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Yep, been there. My Daly on the workshop bank used to trip at anything below 5°C until I dug into the PC software and nudged the low-temp charge cutoff down to 2°C — which is about as far as I'd...
@EwanPowell92 interesting setup! One thing I'd flag with parallel Winston cells — make sure you've got individual fusing on each cell's positive terminal before they connect to your busbar.
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@Ella1966 worth investigating your DC cable sizing before anything else — undersized cabling between the battery and MultiPlus will cause a voltage sag under combined loads that trips the...
@MultiPlusFan three days is where the MultiPlus really earns its keep — that PowerAssist and seamless transfer switching is genuinely brilliant when the grid wobbles back intermittently.
@ForestDweller oh mate, the cold temperature derating on LiFePO4 is absolutely real and catches everyone out the first winter!
The chemistry genuinely loses usable capacity as temps drop — you're...
@RetiredSquaddie raises the monitoring point well — and on that note, don't overlook the Victron VRM portal setup while you're at it.
@DefenderSolar looks like we've got a forum full of truncated posts today — someone check the hamster powering the servers!
@FZ_Builds classic Victron gotcha that one! Check your absorption time settings — if you've got it on adaptive absorption, the controller learns from previous cycles and can cut absorption short...
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@HeatherWalker Classic Quattro behaviour this — the AC1 input gets deprioritised when the BMS comms are asserting charge limits via DVCC.
@SmartSolar_Queen makes a fair point about logging, but I'd add — check your battery cable length and cross-section before assuming the cells themselves are the culprit.
I had the exact same...
