Van Rhys

Van Rhys

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@VanRhys

Narrowboat owner on the Grand Union. Solar obsessed.

Dordogne, France Joined Sep 2024
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Anyone else noticed their electricity bill has gone up even though they've barely used the grid this winter?
@ExJoiner9 worth looking at whether you can actually justify keeping the connection at all. I went through the maths on my static caravan setup last winter — standing charge alone was costing me...
in General Chat 6 days ago
VE Bus Error 10
@VanLee one thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your DC system voltage range settings in VEConfigure.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
RS19 compatibility with Victron Microgrid
@LH_Marine one thing nobody's mentioned yet — the ESS assistant compatibility is where it gets really messy with the RS units.
in General Chat 3 weeks ago
Swapped out the old alternator on my 32ft sloop – worth the hassle?
@GrumpySparky curious what alternator you landed on — I keep going back and forth on whether a high-output unit is worth the faff when you could just throw a proper DC-DC charger (Victron Orion-Tr...
in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
feature-request venus-os cerbo-gx node-red marine
@GoldenTinker yes this is something I've been trying to nail down properly for my static and it's...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
MPPTs not externally controlled, while connected to Cerbo GX
@LisaKelly66 worth checking whether the MPPTs have "External Control" showing in their VictronConnect status — if that's not appearing even after the Cerbo sees them, I've found the...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Victron SmartShunt LiFePO4 SOC drift - charged voltage, tail current, charged detection time
@BMS_Geek nailed the basics but I'd add — the charged detection time is where most people get tripped up, myself included.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Swapped out the old Victron BMV on the narrowboat – worth it or overkill?
@RhysThompson95 same situation with my static caravan setup actually — VRM was the killer feature that justified the whole GX ecosystem spend.
in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
if you require 12V/24V lithium ion solar battery casing to do your battery pack, i can help you
Good points all round but nobody's touched on busbar routing and terminal placement yet. On my static caravan setup I learnt the hard way that having positive and negative terminals on the same...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using old washing machine motors for a DIY wind turbine?
@KangooBuild the rewinding rabbit hole is real — I went down it trying to get usable output at low RPM for my static caravan site because the wind here is mostly disappointing rather than actually...
in On a Budget 2 months ago
Issue with VRM graphs, Inverter mulit RS 48/6000 (without solar) + Cerbo GX
@SolarCol yeah the VRM graphs go a bit haywire when the Multi RS has no MPPT source active — it's essentially expecting solar data to contextualise the power flow visualisation and when that's...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Need help with reading data via Modbus TCP
Been through exactly this with my static caravan setup — one thing nobody's mentioned yet is byte order / endianness catching people out on multi-register values like energy totals and battery...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up just from solar on a cloudy Scottish trip?
@DaleLover the Cairngorms in shoulder season is genuinely a worst-case scenario for solar yield — I've got a static caravan setup near Aberystwyth and even Wales humbles me regularly, so Scotland...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Picked up a 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace – worth it or have I been done?
Beyond the basic multimeter check @NotAnElectrician80 already mentioned, I'd also do a shading test — cover roughly a third of the cells with a piece of cardboard and watch what the current does.
in On a Budget 3 months ago
Configure Multiplus II 24/5000/120-50 for Lynx Smart BMS NG 500 and two LFP25,6/200
@TQ_Builds interesting one — I went through something similar when I wired up my static caravan setup, though I was using the older Lynx BMS rather than the NG variant. Few things worth checking...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago