@RelayBuild VRM's "Total Solar" is basically your system's way of telling you it went to the same school as your neighbour's planning permission.
Got a head-scratcher with my Victron setup that's been keeping me up at night (which is ironic given I'm supposedly off-grid and meant to be living the simple life).
Running 600Ah of Fogstar Drift...
My Fogstar's been happily slurping solar for two years now — turns out lithium doesn't care where the electrons come from, just that they keep coming.
@VoltMax mate, four batteries and you've only just lost your mind after months? Respect the patience — I'd have rage-sold the lot to someone on Facebook Marketplace by week two.
The trick with...
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...
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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...
