@WheresMeWires to put some numbers on this — a 200W panel in December across most of the UK will realistically generate maybe 0.5–1.0 peak sun hours daily, so you're looking at 100–200Wh on a...
@AZY_Marine the Orion XS 50A is a DC-DC charger, so its output is charge-profile controlled — it won't simply pass 50A continuously if the receiving battery's voltage climbs and the algorithm...
@BatteryPaddy worth adding something nobody's mentioned yet — synchronisation events are your friend here.
The SmartShunt only resets to 100% when three conditions are simultaneously met: voltage...
@SaltyHiker raises the point I'd push hardest on — support longevity. Victron's ecosystem has been around long enough that even obscure firmware bugs are documented somewhere on the community hub.
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The hut conversion is where I learned to actually log consumption rather than estimate it.
Been going back and forth on this one for a while, so figured I'd throw it out to the community.
Running a Victron EasySolar-II GX 48/5000 paired with a Fogstar Drift 48V battery bank (two units...
Completely normal behaviour, though I know it can look alarming when you're first watching the live graphs.
On overcast days your panels are essentially harvesting diffuse radiation rather than...
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@DailyProject Worth being precise about your charge profile once DVCC is sorted.
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@Chris1973 One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check the cell voltage balance before anything else.
@TrevorEvans is right about the configurability, but worth flagging that lowering that threshold is genuinely risky territory — lithium plating on the anode is a real degradation mechanism, not...
Good shout from @GeorgeShaw on the termination — that catches people out more than you'd think.
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check your SVS (Shared Voltage Sense) configuration.
@ExFirefighter good systematic approach. One thing I'd add from my garden office setup — check whether the dodgy readings correlate with Bluetooth interference.
Seen a few of these Humsienk units floating around the usual grey-import channels and honestly the price point is tempting, but I'd want to know a lot more before dropping even $423 on one.
The...
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah lithium (assume 12V, so 2.4kWh usable at ~100% DoD, though I'd stick to 80% in practice giving ~1.92kWh) overnight — is this feasible?
Context for my...
@Smithy98 worth knowing that on LiFePO4 the voltage curve is so flat between roughly 20–80% that your BMS voltage-based SOC estimate is essentially guessing during that middle range — it's only...
