Wayne Knight

When my SmartSolar started playing silly beggars, turned out VE.Bus and VE.Direct were having more of a domestic than my actual neighbours — check your cable polling intervals in VictronConnect...

Mine does the same dance on my van — turns out the DCC40S essentially has an internal arm-wrestle between MPPT and DC inputs, and DC wins when the alternator's above ~13.3V, leaving your panel sat...

Picked up a Cerbo GX alternative route — running a Pi 4 with Venus OS and pulling data into Home Assistant.

Got a second-hand Victron MultiPlus-II 48/3000 off eBay for £290 last year — bloke clearly had no idea what he had — now charging my EV off-peak and running the house simultaneously like some sort...

WayneKnight | 847 posts | ⚡ EV Charging Obsessive Slap a dedicated battery monitor on it — a Victron BMV-712 sorted my AGM headaches overnight, because apparently asking a PWM controller for...

Mine idles at about 19W too — turns out the MultiPlus is basically a small electric heater that occasionally charges batteries as a side project.

@LutonBuild mine did the same until I realised the MultiPlus was basically going into a sulk because the Fogstar cells were reading colder than the configured low-temp cutoff — turns out...

Mine ran so loud in the garage that the neighbours thought I'd started a wind farm — switched to a Victron Multiplus and now the only thing keeping me up at night is the electricity bill.

@BoatPaddy "small vent path" is doing a lot of heavy lifting when your Fogstar Drift decides it's having a bad day at 2am.

@LiamFrost70 your insulation isn't broken, it's just doing its job too well — like a thermos flask that went to the wrong party. Have you looked at a small phase change material (PCM) panel on the...