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Hey guys, so... .. I'm going to link a video review of my experience with the Renogy One M1. This was a brand new product when I recorded this, was out for maybe a month, so I have no idea if they've fixed things now, but.... holy **** I have never been so unimpressed/annoyed/disappointed in...

Sharing a video I just dropped today; this was the first week of adventure living in my shortie school bus, in the rocky mountains during winter. The diesel heater tried to kill us, my batteries failed, and my solar system quit charging during 5 days of snow without any sunlight. Good times, but...

Hey guys, this forum has been SO HELPFUL in getting my solar system up and running, which was ultimately designing to power my security system to keep an eye on my land and bus when I'm out of state. I put together a video with everything I've done to keep tabs on things, what system I used...

Hey dudes! My name is Rob, and I used to document all my builds/adventures in forums, but after the great photobucket disaster, and having years if not decades of progress and learning wiped out, I decided to start documenting all my builds on youtube. I never run 'non skippable' ads, and I...

Okay, just... just watch the video, I show what I'm looking at here, it's a super basic system and I don't know if the Victron charger is fighting the BMS or the self heating system or wtf is going on I just want this to work and I've spent so much fucking money and it still doesn't work.

Okay, super short version, I have a property about 2000+ miles from my house, and on that property I have a converted school bus, and a shed for snow removal equipment. I am installing 400w of solar panels, and 400Ah of lithium batteries, and TBD charge controller. The batteries will operate...

Hey dudes, here is my off-grid, high altitude solar workshop design and install video that would not have been successful without your help. The challenge here was the climate and the weather that comes with building at 8k' in the rocky mountains. We get upwards of 100" of snow per...

Hey everyone, been a while. Last winter I installed a 700 watt off grid shed, with victron components (F renogy!!!!), thread with details here: https://diysolarforum.com/threads/please-help-me-victron-system-amperetime-batteries-nothing-makes-any-sense.58710/ Now, ever since I got it...

Hey dudes, just sharing a quick video where I threw an extra panel I had on the ski skoolie, and doubled the battery power. I am now running mixed panels, AND a mixed battery bank (the company that made my current lithiums does not exist anymore so I can't run matched). I also give a...

Here's a quick video I made about installing a CDH in my off grid shed.

Alright, here's the sitch: I have a camper with a bigass deep cycle 12v battery, lead acid. My skoolie (entirely different system) has two AGM batteries like this, but I'm replacing those with lithium, which means I will have two of these laying around, to be USED ON THE CAMPER...

Hey all, I have a fairly simple system in my bus, it's 200watts of solar on the roof, a renogy 40A mppt charger, and two Relibatt 100Ah batteries. I charged both batteries with a walmart battery charger (set on lithium) and THE CHARGER said both batteries were 95% full, so I topped them both...

So I have an offgrid system that is 1000s of miles from my house. It was up for .... 3 days. Then it went down. I have no idea what's happened since but the area has been without power. I'm tearing out all my renogy crap (F that company) and moving to all victron, I am just not impressed...

I have a small 8x16' shed, I've wired 120v AC outlets around inside the shed. I have a 1200watt victron inverter. The wiring for the outlets all terminates near the inverter, but the inverter has a female AC plug on it. What's the correct way to from an AC plug to multiple romex wires?

Goal: Small off grid system for shed, WITH REMOTE MONITORING CAPABILITES (have cell service) System: PV 690 watts (3 230 watt panels) hooked up in series for a max of 89.8 volts, 7.78 Amps. Victron Blue Solar 100v/15A Charge Controller 2 200Ah Ampere Time Lithium Ion Batteries 500A Smart...

I searched but most answers are for huge residential systems. I have a solar 'shed' with 400Ah of lithium batteries, and 700 watts of solar on the roof. I wired the interior of the shed for AC, and my inverter is a Victron Phoenix 1200w with a single AC output receptacle. I'm unclear on how...

I deleted my original post. You need to DISABLE low temp charging protection on victron smart solar. Then it will give the batteries juice at low temps, which turns on the battery heaters, and then accepts a charge.

My system: 690 Watts of Panels, 150/45 SmartSolar Charger, 1200w Phoenix Inverter, Cerbo GX connected to a 5g router with good reception, and a Smart Shunt attached to 400Ah of self heating LitTime batteries. Last winter, the batteries did not charge reliably until I insulated them and got...

So I have a bus with 2 100w Renogy panels on the roof. It's not cutting it anymore. I have an extra 230w santan panel laying around doing nothing... so mocked this up, does this look correct to everyone? Also yes F Renogy, but this system already exists, so I'm using it.

I want to be able to monitor my solar system, battery amount, and be able turn on a siren/floodlight from anywhere in the world. CURRENT SYSTEM 720 Watts of Solar Panels Renogy 60A Rover (150v max input) MPPT Charge Controller 2x200Ah AmpereTime Lithium Ions Kuwai 4g Router (12v powered) SO I...

So my off grid neighbor built a small cabin, and on the roof he mounted 4 200w Eco-Worthy panels in series, specs are: Rated Power: 195W Solar Cell: Monocrystalline Maximum/Peak Voltage(Vmp): 18V Open Circuit Voltage(Voc): 21.6V Short circuit current: 10.83A Maximum current: 11.89A His...

Shed System: 2x200AH AmpereTime Lithiums, 3x 240W 24v solar panels, & a renogy rover 60A MPPT charger, small 400w inverter. I am currently living in a shorty school bus with a smaller solar system (2x100w panels, 20a MPPT charger, 2x100Ah AGMs). The weather has been bad, snowing for 3...

Hey so, I have an off grid skoolie, with ~400W of solar on the roof, and I had two "Relibatt" 100Ah self heating batteries. It was okay, but a longer winter storm would still result in me being out of power. Since then, Relibatt has disappeared, their website doesn't exist anymore, and I...