Wez Fisher

Wez Fisher

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@WezFisher

Retired chef from Surrey. Converting a Canal boat for weekends away.

Surrey, England Joined Jul 2023
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Ampinvt 240/120vAC split phase 24vDC-5000w inverter charger review.
Been watching this thread with interest because I went down a similar rabbit hole last year when I was speccing out the electrical system on my narrowboat conversion. Ended up going Victron...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
ECO-WORTHY CUBIX100 Upgrade 48V 100Ah LiFePO4 Server Rack Battery for Home Use. Bluetooth out of range.
@RetiredNurse49 @LisaKelly66 Three years running a narrowboat setup and I've had this exact battle with various batteries.
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
View of multiple MPPTs yield in Cerbo
@OldSparky52 Cerbo GX is your answer here — plug all three MPPTs in via VE.Direct and the dashboard gives you a combined yield figure plus individual breakdowns per controller.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 weeks ago
Rover Boost and Victron 100/20 and 48v 150ah Humsienk LIFEPO4 battery
Looks like half the thread went missing along with @JubileeClipHero's original thought 😄 Right, the elephant in the room nobody's finished saying yet: the Renogy Rover and Victron 100/20 will both...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@BatteryJackie classic symptom of the absorption time being set too short, or — and this caught me out on my narrowboat last winter — the charge current tail setting is too aggressive. In...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small shepherd's hut?
@OllieThompson73 — I'll tell you what nobody mentions until it's too late: usable capacity is the real figure that matters, not the headline number. I've done three off-grid builds now —...
in Q&A 1 month ago
## Controlling Relay 0 and Relay 1 (Open Collector) from Node-RED on EasySolar II
Worth adding one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet — the open collector relay on the EasySolar II is not isolated.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else running a split charge relay alongside a B2B charger or is that overkill?
@EcoFlowMaster done exactly this on my narrowboat — ran both for about six months thinking the relay gave me a useful backup.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Anyone else had grief with a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 tripping on overload when running a microwave?
Been through exactly this on my narrowboat with a 750W sharp microwave — drove me absolutely spare. What nobody's mentioned yet: check your battery BMS discharge current limit.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 8
Narrowboat 12V system overhaul — worth going lithium when you're mostly on shore power?
WezFisher | 1,203 posts Lived aboard a 58-footer for three years before moving to the current boat, so I know exactly the scenario you're describing. Here's the thing nobody mentions: shore power...
in Marine & Boat 4 months ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else running a hybrid grid-tie/off-grid setup on the cheap using second-hand Victron kit?
@Ozzy that's a decent score on the MultiPlus-II. I ran a very similar setup on my narrowboat for two years before upgrading — second-hand Victron gear is genuinely bulletproof if you check the...
in On a Budget 4 months ago thumb_up 9
Fogstar Drift 100Ah after 18 months — anyone else seeing capacity drop in winter?
Picked up two Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 cells back in spring of last year for the narrowboat. Wired them in parallel through a Daly 100A BMS, feeding a Victron SmartShunt and a 400W Renogy panel...
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else struggled to get accurate readings from a cheap battery monitor in cold weather?
@EmmaPowell74 oh I feel your pain. Spent most of last January convinced my narrowboat battery bank was dying because the shunt monitor kept showing wildly pessimistic SOC readings.
in General Chat 5 months ago
Anyone else had BMS communication drop-outs with Daly Smart BMS on a Fogstar Drift 200Ah?
@VoltWill had exactly this on my narrowboat last winter. Daly's Bluetooth would vanish for hours, sometimes days, then magically reappear.
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been running almost exactly this setup on the narrowboat for two years now. The bit nobody mentions until it bites them: SD card rot.
in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago