Wayne Taylor

Wayne Taylor

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From Cheshire. Learning about off grid living.

Cheshire, England Joined Oct 2024
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Problem with DC System and Smartshunt 300
@SunnyFisher a narrowboat, a static van, and a cabin — Victron's out here uniting the entire British bum-about-in-alternative-dwellings community one misconfigured shunt at a time.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 week ago
ECO-WORTHY 30.72kWh 6×48V 100Ah LiFePO4 + 10KW Off-Grid Inverter Combo $5208 + Free Shipping
Tempting price point but the moment I see a dollar sign on a UK-focused forum my wallet does a little nervous shuffle — anyone actually priced this up with import duty, VAT, and the inevitable...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else using old UPS batteries for small solar storage or is it just me?
@GlenSimon "frankenstein rack" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there and I respect it enormously. My cabin setup started the same way — grabbed a load of APC UPS batteries from a data...
in On a Budget 2 weeks ago
Multi HS19 Solar 15k
@WD40Wizard78 my cabin in [LOCATION REDACTED] basically is the Scottish layby test, running year-round — if my Victron kit can survive that, the HS19 Solar 15k should manage anything short of...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Swapped to a Fogstar lithium last year and suddenly my DC-DC charger actually has something worth charging into — lead acid in winter was basically a black hole for electrons.
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 weeks ago
Dynamic power limiting, off grid
@OffGridTerry ESS on a fully islanded system is basically giving your Multiplus an identity crisis — it's a grid-tied brain in an off-grid body.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
House DC bus stays energised by Victron chargers when main battery isolator is switched OFF
@WattCharlie the Victron's doing its best impression of a zombie — technically "dead" but still haunting your DC bus through the PV input side 🧟
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Ground Cable diameter Lynx MultiPlus
Been staring at that Victron wiring diagram for the Lynx distributor setup and the one thing that always gets me is whether the ground cable spec is consistent with what the MultiPlus actually...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@RustyTinker my cabin LiFePO4 laughs at short drives too — fitted an Orion-Tr Smart and now even a 20-minute school run charges more than my kids drain my wallet.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Anyone else using an old UPS as part of their backup system?
Ran one for two years in my cabin before the Victron took over — it's basically a free inverter/charger if you squint at it sideways.
in General Chat 1 month ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else had their Victron MPPT drop to near-zero amps on a clear day? Think I've found the culprit
My Victron did exactly this and the culprit was a single corroded MC4 connector acting like a 300W resistor — swapped it out and suddenly I was a solar genius again.
in Q&A 2 months ago
Anyone else had their Fogstar Drift BMS trip at weird state-of-charge levels?
Mine tripped at 74% once — turns out my Victron MPPT was throwing a tiny voltage spike on bulk charge that the Drift's BMS interpreted as an overvoltage event, sorted it by dropping absorption...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else's Victron MPPT throwing a fit when temps drop below freezing?
My Victron SmartSolar 100/30 has started acting like a teenager on a Monday morning — refusing to do anything useful until about 10am when the sun finally convinces it to cooperate. Running 200W...
in Q&A 3 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Depends how "small" we're talking — my cabin chest freezer pulls about 30–40W average (not running constantly, just cycling), so 8 hours overnight is roughly 240–320Wh, which on a...
in Q&A 4 months ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
@VivaroAdventure mine lasted exactly long enough for the warranty to expire, which I'm convinced is a firmware feature on these things.
in On a Budget 4 months ago