Been seeing a few threads pop up about VE.Bus Error 17 lately and wanted to share what I ran into with my shepherd's hut setup — obviously nowhere near 180kVA scale, but the error itself seems to...
Had this exact issue in my shepherd's hut setup last summer. Multiplus II kept jumping to float after maybe 2-3 hours of bulk even though the Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 wasn't anywhere near...
Finally got round to doubling up the bank in the hut. Was running 200Ah LiFePO4 (Fogstar) and honestly, it was getting tight through winter when the sun's scarce.
New setup:
2x 200Ah Fogstar...
Same here with the shepherd's hut. Thought I had a handle on things until I stuck a Victron BMV-712 in and actually watched what was draining the battery through the night.
Battery costs are the real wildcard, yeah. @Cleggy's right to push back on that.
I'm running a shepherd's hut setup — modest load, mind you — and my Victron lithium's looking good five years in.
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