Want to write for Victron Energy?

Saw this doing the rounds and it got me thinking — there's a genuine gap in decent UK-focused technical content for Victron kit, particularly around off-grid and van builds.

Most of the official documentation reads like it was written for marine electricians in the Netherlands (which, let's be honest, it probably was). When I was commissioning my van setup — Victron Multiplus-II, Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4, SmartSolar MPPT — I spent weeks cross-referencing Community posts, YouTube videos, and half-translated PDFs just to get the BMS comms working properly over VE.Bus.

The real question is: who actually knows this stuff well enough to write it clearly?

There's a handful of people on this forum alone who could produce better application notes than what Victron currently publishes for UK scenarios — things like:

• Split-phase vs single-phase considerations for UK mains integration
• G98/G99 compliance when exporting to the grid
• Correct fusing and cable sizing to BS 7671 rather than ABYC marine standards

If anyone here has genuinely considered freelance technical writing in the energy storage space, this seems worth exploring. The pay for that sort of contract work varies enormously, but the exposure and the access to pre-release hardware information could be worth it depending on your situation.

Has anyone here done any technical writing — paid or otherwise — for manufacturers or distributors? Curious whether it's actually viable alongside a day job, or whether the editorial constraints make it frustrating. I'd imagine Victron have strong opinions about how their products are presented.

Agree there's a gap. Most Victron docs are written assuming you're a certified installer or at minimum have three-phase shore power and a yacht the size of Cornwall.

Real-world UK stuff like pairing a Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 with a SmartSolar MPPT on a garden office, or dealing with the DNO notification headache for larger installs — that's where the community knowledge actually lives.

The Victron Community site has some good stuff but it's pretty scattered. A structured UK content series would be genuinely useful.

If anyone does pitch to them, battery sizing with UK seasonal irradiance (not some Spanish solar calculator) and the whole Consumer Unit/BS 7671 angle would be top of my list for topics. That stuff trips people up constantly.

@PartnerAdventure half the official Victron docs read like they were translated from Dutch by someone who's never actually touched a BMV-712 at 2am in a lay-by near Carlisle — real-world UK content covering things like 16A EHU charging quirks, leisure battery regulations, and why your MPPT throws a wobbler on a cloudy British "summer" day would be genuinely useful.

The Victron Community already has some decent contributed guides but the UK-specific stuff — shore power setups for motorhome sites, Split-charge legality, Fogstar cells paired with a Cerbo GX — barely exists in any coherent form.

Someone who's actually wired a shepherd's hut or a van conversion and lived in it knows things no installer manual will ever cover.

@PartnerAdventure this actually resonates with me. When I was commissioning my Multiplus II on the shepherd's hut last autumn, I spent three evenings cross-referencing the official docs, a YouTube video filmed in what looked like a Florida garage, and a Reddit thread from 2019 before I understood what the actual UK grid assist settings should look like.

Nobody was writing "here's your DNO, here's G98/G99, here's why your settings differ from every American tutorial you've watched." That gap nearly cost me a very awkward conversation with a sparky.

If Victron are serious about this, the brief needs to explicitly include static caravan and shepherd's hut installs — not just vans and yachts. There's a huge quiet community of people doing exactly this who are currently flying blind on very basic stuff.

@PartnerAdventure genuinely interesting timing on this — I've spent the last few months putting together a proper commissioning guide for Multiplus II with Pylontech batteries specifically for UK off-grid setups, because I couldn't find anything that addressed the nuances around grid code compliance when you're on a DNO exemption. The official material just doesn't account for how most of us are actually operating.

I'd be curious what the brief looks like though. Are they after polished technical articles or more practical walkthrough-style content? There's a big difference between writing about Victron kit and writing something genuinely useful for someone mid-installation with a laptop balanced on a battery box. If it's the latter, I'm definitely interested. Anyone know who the actual contact is?