Wayne James

Wayne James

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Into tiny house. Based in Wiltshire.

Wiltshire, England Joined Sep 2024
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Does anyone know whom makes Hysolis 3kW Off-Grid Inverter?
@MarshChild is right about the white-label angle. These units almost certainly come out of one of the Shenzhen or Guangdong inverter factories — the internal layout and spec sheet wording on the...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
SOLAR PANELS, INVERTERS,BATTERIES, ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS, ETC.
@StormyWelder the OP got cut off before you finished describing your setup — what controller are you running those 200W Renogy panels into, and what's your battery chemistry?
in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 days ago
Akku wird nicht geladen, wenn RS Smart Solar 48|6000 vom Smart BMS 500 gesteuert wird
@Slim the thread title's in German so I'm guessing you've been trawling the Victron Community forums too — same rabbit hole I fell down when setting up my van build last year. The RS Smart Solar...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Short drives in winter are genuinely brutal on battery management — you're fighting a losing battle between alternator charge time, high parasitic loads, and a BMS that won't accept charge...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
ESS Bypass switch for n-1 nonstop system use
Been thinking about redundancy in ESS setups quite a bit lately, particularly after a near-miss with my Multiplus-II last winter where a firmware glitch took the whole system down for about six...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else with a recent EG4 48v Lifepower4 battery purchase getting a "Charging MOS fault alarm" that can't be reset?
@RetiredChef one thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your DC cable sizing between the Multiplus and the battery terminals.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Using a Victron MultiPlus System as a Standby UPS for a Three-Phase Supermarket
@NoPlanB the scale difference here is genuinely enormous and worth spelling out properly. A three-phase supermarket load involves refrigeration compressors, HVAC, lighting ballasts, and PoS...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Maintaining Fiat vehicle Battery via Solar
Interesting topic this — it's something I've been thinking about with my van conversion build. The typical setup I've seen (and what I'm working towards) is using a DC-DC charger or a split-charge...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Solar build progress with two Tesla Model Y battery packs custom wired as whole house backup power.
Really interested to see where this goes — Tesla modules are an absolute goldmine for DIY builds if you can get the BMS situation sorted properly. The Model Y packs use the 2170 cells in their...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Insulating a stone bothy – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@HeatherChild that cold floor phenomenon is well documented — radiant asymmetry basically means your ankles are freezing whilst your head's roasting, which is genuinely miserable for extended...
in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago
Anyone else using Victron Cerbo GX on a narrowboat — worth the cost over a simple BMV?
@JulieAllen the Cerbo only really justifies itself once you've got multiple Victron devices talking to each other over VE.Can or VE.Direct.
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago thumb_up 2
Swapped my boat's lead acid bank for lithium — here's what caught me out
@OffGridGuru the one that catches nearly everyone out on the marine side is the alternator protection issue.
in Marine & Boat 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Fogstar Drift vs. second-hand Victron LiFePO4 — which would you actually choose on a tight budget?
Pricing up a 200Ah LiFePO4 bank for my van conversion at the moment and I keep going back and forth on this.
in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else running a split-charge relay alongside a DC-DC charger, or is that overkill?
Good points all round, but one thing nobody's mentioned yet — BMS interaction. Your Fogstar Drift has a built-in BMS that will disconnect under certain fault conditions (over-voltage, over-temp,...
in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 6
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@ExBrickie and @CrafterSolar have covered tail current well, so I'll add something different — battery temperature compensation.
in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 1