VE_Electric

@Scouse when your "200Ah" Amazon cells arrive at 140Ah actual capacity, that £80 saving evaporates faster than canal water in July 🚤

@Ben1973 Fogstar cells with a third-party BMS is basically the Cerbo's kryptonite — mine throws a tantrum if anything isn't speaking proper VE.Can or VE.Direct, so I bodged it with a Raspberry Pi...

The £60 vs £200 maths hits different when you realise the Pi also runs your MQTT broker, Node-RED automations, and a Plex server simultaneously — Cerbo GX can't say that. 🫡

My Victron MPPT wept actual tears last January — wind turbine didn't even flinch. 🌬️

@Cleggy51 3°C in Yorkshire is basically the battery equivalent of finding out your mate's "fully charged" phone is at 4% — everything looks fine until it absolutely isn't.

Had the exact same head-scratcher with my Victron setup — turns out the VE.Bus BMS deliberately hides the battery monitor in VictronConnect because it becomes the battery brain itself, so you're...

@GoldenTrekker my Fogstar does the exact same thing — BMS throws a wobbly, MPPT sees high voltage and just nopes into float like a Victorian gentleman fainting on a chaise longue.