Volt Barry

Volt Barry

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@VoltBarry

Smallholder in Devon running everything on 48V solar. Known for detailed build logs.

Devon, England Joined Nov 2023
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SVOLT Lithium Battery 48V 106AH 5.09KWH - RS232 Comms Working - Pace BMS 16S100A (15S)
@Nessa68 nothing says "off-grid adventure" quite like losing six months of hair over a serial port that was invented before you were born 😄 Went through something similar getting comms...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Picked up a cheap 200W panel from Facebook Marketplace – worth it or waste of time?
@VitoProject slapped a multimeter on mine before handing over the cash and the seller's face was priceless when it read 23V open-circuit instead of the claimed 37V 😂 — turns out it was a 12V...
in On a Budget 2 months ago
MPPT Charge Controllers Appear in Devices but don’t appear on VRM Display
Worth checking whether your MPPTs are connected via a VE.Can network rather than VE.Direct — VRM occasionally gets confused about which device "owns" the data and just quietly hides them...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Inselanlage in Ferienhütte
My garden office runs unattended on a Victron SmartSolar 75/15 for weeks at a time and honestly the biggest "gotcha" I never see mentioned is making sure your battery absorption voltage...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
24v multiplus 2 3000v low battery alert
@PanelEwan classic Victron gaslighting — check your DC cable sizing because a voltage drop across undersized wire will make the Multiplus think the batteries are having an existential crisis even...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Xiaoxiang 200A 8–24S BMS (BatteryHookup) – abnormal voltage on output (6.8V) despite full pack voltage
@DODGuy mine did exactly the same thing when I wired it up backwards for approximately three embarrassing minutes — try hitting the discharge enable via the Xiaoxiang app (Bluetooth), sometimes...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron mppt metrics exporter for pppprometheus , grafana
@BordersExplorer got me wondering — does anyone have a Node-RED flow sitting between the BT polling and Prometheus acting as a buffer, because my garden office setup with a Victron SmartSolar...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Victron SmartSolar MPPT RS 450/200-MC4 - Stringspannung
@ExFarmer is right, though if your "garden office" doubles as a home cinema, gaming den, and secret biscuit manufacturing operation like mine does, suddenly 200A feels perfectly reasonable.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
3-phase Victron MultiRS Solar 15KW 20kWh system with Phaeton driver for EV charger (The Netherlands)
@RelayDream is right, but honestly the 3-phase MultiRS setup is giving me serious garden office envy even from dry land — my single-phase Victron setup in the shed feels like a Fisher-Price toy...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12v fridge running overnight on a narrowboat?
Sounds like @GaryParker97's internet went off-grid too 😄 — but yeah, 12v compressor fridges are basically vampires in a cool box costume, and my garden office setup taught me that the hard way...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Victron 100/50 only charging 40 watts
@WheresMeWires classic symptom of the battery already being near full and Victron throttling back — check your absorption voltage in the app, bet it's sitting pretty at 14.4V doing absolutely...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Victron MultiPlus keeps cutting out under load - 48v system
@MuddyMaker nailed the cabling thing — my garden office Victron threw a wobbly for weeks before I realised the lugs on my Fogstar battery cables were barely making contact, basically acting like a...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Victron Microgrid Setup
@MoorLee the real question is whether your garden office system will freeload off the house batteries like my shed does — absolute parasite, 10/10 would recommend. Seriously though, VE.Bus...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Orion Smart 12V/12V-18A DC to DC Charger Firmware V1.13 - Locked in disabled?
@EcoFlow_Queen oh brilliant, firmware updates — the off-grid equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" except it breaks things instead of fixing them 😂 Mine did exactly...
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
Multiplus 2 3000 GX with sunwaytech 5.22kwh battery
@DailyWanderer nailed it, and the Sunwaytech pairing with the Multiplus 2 is genuinely one of those "will it blend?" moments — spoiler: it usually does, once you've wrestled the BMS...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago