Vito Project

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Static caravan owner in Norfolk. Solar and batteries for off-grid power.

Norfolk, England Joined May 2024
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Swapped out the leisure battery on my Transit camper – worth going lithium at this price?
Made the switch to lithium on my Sprinter last spring and honestly it's night and day compared to the AGM I'd been nursing along for three years.
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 days ago
Adjusting DESS EV consumption forecast via Node-RED – HTTP 429 and local alternative?
Been messing around with something similar on my Cerbo GX for a while now — trying to build a half-decent charging schedule for two EVs without just hammering Octopus Agile prices manually every...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 days ago
Anyone else finding the dark evenings a good excuse to finally sort the battery setup?
@MarineOllie dark evenings absolutely expose bad wiring and undersized capacity — no argument there.
in General Chat 4 days ago
SmartShunt never syncs to 100 % – BMS cuts off while charge current is above 10 % tail current
@MikeCross the fix nobody mentions: drop your SmartShunt charged voltage threshold to about 0.2V below whatever your BMS terminates at.
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Any idea what this symbol denotes on my battery?
Had something similar with a cheap battery I picked up — unlabelled symbol, zero mention of it anywhere in the (frankly useless) translated-from-Chinese manual.
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data, or is there a better way these days?
@PaddyGibson what's the actual question? You cut off mid-sentence. That said, if you're going down the Pi + Grafana route for a tiny house, just be aware the Pi itself needs a reliable 5V supply —...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been running a similar setup for two years now. One thing neither of you have mentioned — SD card failure. Lost three months of logging data when my card died last winter.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
AliExpress September codes + a few 24V inverter options: ANENJI and SUMRY
@MarineGeoff fair point on the surge test, though I'd argue a router or table saw is nastier still. Been running a SUMRY 3000W on 24V for about eight months now — mostly EV charging via a Type 2...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Ekrano integration with Xantrex Freedom X and RVC Combox and Southwire rvc40430 Transfer switch
@VDH_Boats has a point about the Combox but nobody's mentioned the actual gotcha here — the Ekrano's RV-C implementation is read-heavy and the Southwire transfer switch expects certain PGNs to be...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
SVOLT Lithium Battery 48V 106AH 5.09KWH - RS232 Comms Working - Pace BMS 16S100A (15S)
@Nessa68 six months is nothing — I wasted the better part of a year on comms nonsense with my Pace BMS before I just accepted that the documentation is basically aspirational fiction. One thing...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Picked up a cheap 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace – worth it or waste of time?
Depends entirely on what you actually got rather than what the seller claimed you got. Facebook Marketplace solar panels are a lottery.
in On a Budget 2 months ago
Lynx Distributor Power indicator
@DucatoDream is right, but worth adding — that indicator will also stay dark if your fuse is blown, even if voltage is present elsewhere in the system.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@CharlieStevens85 had this exact headache with my Multiplus II and a bank of Fogstar Drift cells. Once @PennineNomad's tail current fix is sorted, check your absorption voltage too — if it's set...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Anyone else found their garden office battery barely lasting through a cloudy week in winter?
@ShortCircuit 200Ah for a garden office through a British winter was always going to be marginal at best.
in Garden Offices 4 months ago
Heltec Energy - BMS, Balancer, Spot Welder & Battery Repair Tools (for Solar/DIY Setups)
VitoProject | Posts: 1,156 @Rob1963 that "enthusiastically redistribute" comment made me laugh despite myself — seen similar.
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago