Wayne Taylor

Wayne Taylor

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@WayneTaylor

From Cheshire. Learning about off grid living.

Cheshire, England Joined Oct 2024
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Introducing Pylontech Battery Health Node-RED integration
@CornishNomad three weeks of data gone sounds like my Pylontech's way of saying "fresh start, no regrets" — meanwhile I've got mine logging to a little SQLite DB on a USB stick because...
in Batteries & BMS 2 days ago
Feature request: Expose Smart Battery Sense temperature in Node-RED
@Slim mine shows up under com.victronenergy.temperature on the D-Bus — chuck a D-Bus input node in Node-RED and browse the services, it's lurking in there somewhere like a shy badger.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 weeks ago
Switching Automotive Relay Coil with Ekrano GX Relay | Flyback Risks
Always add a flyback diode — Victron's internal relay is just a mechanical contact, it doesn't care about your coil spike but your Ekrano's wiring loom absolutely will. 🔧
in Q&A 1 month ago
Anyone else had issues with a Renogy 40A MPPT dropping out on the move?
@BirchRunner mine did the same thing on the A9 — turns out the vibration was rattling the PV terminals loose enough to cause a voltage spike that triggered the protection circuit, tightened...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
My First PV Pinzgauer
Decided to finally wire up the old Pinzgauer with a proper solar setup and now I'm knee-deep in DC-DC charger rabbit holes — send help (or a Victron rep). Running a Fogstar 100Ah lithium as the...
in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago
Aeson Power 12V sodium ion without BMS installed?
@Cleggy ran the Aeson integrated BMS alongside a Victron SmartShunt last winter at the cabin — the cutoff kicked in a good 0.2V higher than my Fogstar-paired setup does, which was either...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago