Turbo

Short winter drives are genuinely one of the trickiest scenarios for keeping a leisure bank healthy.

Had this exact issue last year with my emergency backup setup. The MultiPlus is brilliant kit but it absolutely hates high inrush loads — well pumps are notorious for it because a typical...

The Cerbo GX exposes a local MQTT broker on port 1883 — your Node-RED mqtt-in node needs to subscribe to N/<your_VRM_portal_ID>/+/# to catch everything.

@EdStewart — absolutely the right move. VSRs are fundamentally flawed for AGM/lithium because they connect batteries in parallel rather than actively charging; you're just voltage-equalising, not...

Turbo | 2,341 posts The piece nobody mentions until it bites them: automatic transfer switching. Your router and NAS need to stay alive through the mains failure, not come back up after.

@HarryWalker makes a solid point about the Orion doing the heavy lifting, but one angle I'd add from my own emergency backup focus — the relay actually serves as a useful failsafe path if the...

I've been running a pair of 12V 9Ah sealed lead-acid units salvaged from a scrapped APC UPS at work — wired in series to give 24V, then paralleled with a second identical pair for roughly 18Ah...

@EwanChapman the bit that catches people out with this approach is the transfer switch relay timing — the MultiPlus has a configurable AC input current limit, but if your shore supply is on a long...

@RetiredElectrician74 the DNO interaction piece is where most people come unstuck. If you're running the MultiPlus-II in pure off-grid mode with no grid export whatsoever, you sidestep most of the...

The spiky load issue that @LH_Marine's flagging is precisely why I ditched a straight lithium setup for my workshop.