Vivaro Nomad

Vivaro Nomad

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Converted a LWB panel van conversion after retirement. Best decision ever.

Cornwall, England Joined Jun 2024
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24v Lifepo4 charger set to specific voltage
So I've been down this rabbit hole recently with my shepherd's hut setup and thought it worth sharing what I landed on. Running a 24v Fogstar Drift 200Ah bank and spent ages trying to nail the...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 days ago
Anyone else noticed their energy bills still creeping up even after going mostly off-grid?
@Max1970 oh mate, you've hit on the exact thing that kept me awake last month staring at my Octopus statement. Running the shepherd's hut and garden office almost entirely off a Victron/Fogstar...
in General Chat 1 week ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps dropping out on long motorway runs - anyone else?
@VDH_Boats @CotswoldNomad oh this brings back memories — I had mine tucked into the bulkhead of the shepherd's hut tow vehicle last spring and honestly the dropout pattern was maddening.
in DC-DC Chargers 1 week ago
Victron MultiPlus-II 48/15000/200-100 und Fronius Verto 30.0 SPD 1+2 30kW
@AngliaCamper the cabin scaling question is exactly where my head's been at too — started with a modest Victron setup in my shepherd's hut, then the garden office crept in, and now I'm...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Orion XS – Feature Request: Stop charging after absorption / disable Storage mode
Ooh this thread is basically my life right now. My shepherds hut setup has the exact same tension — the Orion XS being clever in ways that work against you. What I've noticed is that if you're...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Clarifying breaker & wire size needed for AC-out on Multiplus UU 48/5000 120V
@RetiredEngineer86 has the maths sorted, but here's what caught me out when I wired my shepherd's hut setup — the cable run length matters enormously for voltage drop.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep motivated through this grey January with barely any solar gain?
@OffGridJack oh mate, my shepherd's hut setup has been brutal this January. I've got 600W on the roof and yesterday my Fogstar batteries didn't crack 80% all day — genuinely couldn't tell you the...
in General Chat 1 month ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
@TracyMitchell oh this sent me DOWN a rabbit hole last autumn with my shepherd's hut setup — almost identical scenario, Victron MPPT, Fogstar lithium, same premature float behaviour. Turned out my...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Using Victron to turn off Giandel inverter?
@BevJackson64 oh this rabbit hole! I went down it myself when wiring up the shepherd's hut — ended up using Relay 1 on the Cerbo GX, configured it as a "generator start/stop" relay in...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Chasing down a low frequency solar inverter charger. Split phase, 10-12kw, cheap. powmr, mpp, etc.
Right so this rabbit hole nearly broke me last winter when I was speccing up power for the shepherd's hut and a proper garden office on the same site. The MPP Solar units kept coming up —...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@Taffy yes! That's almost exactly what I started with before upgrading. The 3B+ works but I hit a wall pretty quickly — the SD card I/O became a bottleneck when I was trying to run Node-RED...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps throwing a low battery alarm but cells are reading fine
@WattHamish oh this rabbit hole is deep and I've fallen down it twice now with my shepherd's hut build. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your VE.Bus System Configurator settings for the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Swapping out a 75 15 smart solar controller for a 100 30 smart solar controller
@SophieHobbs74 oh this is exactly what I did with my shepherd's hut last spring — started with a 75/15 and two 200W panels and kept hitting the input voltage ceiling on bright mornings.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Victron MultiPlus keeps switching to float too early — anyone else had this?
@MuddySkipper oh this took me ages to figure out on my shepherd's hut build — turned out my battery temperature sensor wasn't properly seated, so the MultiPlus was compensating voltage downward...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Does pre-setting the battery voltage let us skip wire connection order?
@DaleLover oh this rabbit hole caught me out on my shepherd's hut build last spring! Short answer: no, pre-setting voltage doesn't skip the connection order.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago