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Victron is Over-priced Eurotrash. Why would anybody buy Victron over an AiO?

Yep notified. As long as it functions I’m good - we’ll see what they say. Thanks.

POSTSCRIPT - noticed a dent on the frame also. I'll see what the dealer says. I am willing to keep the unit only if all warranty will be honoured by Victron. I also asked for an additional 5 years of coverage.


ANOTHER QUESTION - I was configuring the unit for my specific use. I noticed in the setting (using VE Config software) that a virtual switch was turned on by default. Would this be a factory default setting? I have no use for a virtual switch at this point so I just disabled/turned off all switches - 'Do Not Use Virtual Switch'. Is there anything I should be aware of prior to changing this to 'Do Not Use'?

In the future I would likely use a Cerbo GX to drive the Aux inputs.

Thanks
 

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agtcovert said:
Well folks, a new day awaits. Blue pr0n has arrived. Might be a hot minute before I can start my (re)build. But that will be its own thread.

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@HighTechLab Thanks for the well packaged shipment as always!
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I'm jealous. That's twice today. One was just seeing your delivery, the other was seeing my brother's brand new 150/60.

My only Victron is a 100/30. It is saved for a camper project, but he was so impressed with my new solar shack (used an EG4 3k AIO, that he wants solar in his barn. We will use the 150/60 and a separate inverter for that 3kw plant.
 
Ordered a cerbo mk2 from Current Connected. Wanted to test battery comms to my ecoworthy 5kWh rackmount.

I bought my current cerbo-s understanding it's limitations (can have ve.can or bms can but not both). I thought that wouldn't be a problem in the future as I could always switch my ve.can sccs over to ve.direct. However I failed to forsee adding a lynx shunt that only talks ve.can.

So time for the full fat cerbo so I can ve.can and bms can at the same time. Will use the cerbo-s on my xw pro project (in addition to insight home).
 
Brucey said:
Three 250/100s!!! Between you and crowz I feel lacking.
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I ran my plans through Victron's sizer and they came out with the 250/85, with CC's pricing, I just got the 100's since who knows the future.

As of right now, the plan is:
- 4s4p 325Wp @ 180 azimuth
- 4s2p 325Wp @ 180 / vertical mount
- 4s2p 405Wp @ 210 / I'm hoping to make this 4s3p, we'll see
- 3s4p 250Wp @ 120 (those are going on a 150/85 I already had)

I have a ton of work to do. With the exception of the 405's, the strings already exist but need rewired for lower voltage. I'll still have 20+ 405W panels to deploy. I'm thinking of trying a Fronius for those. Because it sounds like fun. :)
 
Brucey said:
Ordered a cerbo mk2 from Current Connected. Wanted to test battery comms to my ecoworthy 5kWh rackmount.

I bought my current cerbo-s understanding it's limitations (can have ve.can or bms can but not both). I thought that wouldn't be a problem in the future as I could always switch my ve.can sccs over to ve.direct. However I failed to forsee adding a lynx shunt that only talks ve.can.
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I have the same CAN limitation on my CCGX along with only 2 VE.Direct ports. There is definitely a Cerbo in my future.

Brucey said:
So time for the full fat cerbo so I can ve.can and bms can at the same time. Will use the cerbo-s on my xw pro project (in addition to insight home).
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(y)
 
agtcovert said:
I ran my plans through Victron's sizer and they came out with the 250/85, with CC's pricing, I just got the 100's since who knows the future.

As of right now, the plan is:
- 4s4p 325Wp @ 180 azimuth
- 4s2p 325Wp @ 180 / vertical mount
- 4s2p 405Wp @ 210 / I'm hoping to make this 4s3p, we'll see
- 3s4p 250Wp @ 120 (those are going on a 150/85 I already had)

I have a ton of work to do. With the exception of the 405's, the strings already exist but need rewired for lower voltage. I'll still have 20+ 405W panels to deploy. I'm thinking of trying a Fronius for those. Because it sounds like fun. :)
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What I've found is with my 41V Voc panels I would need to bump up to a 4th parallel string to maximize my 250/100, currently running 5s3p. Better to leave it slightly under capacity and add those panels to additional sccs for my situation.

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Brucey said:
What I've found is with my 41V Voc panels I would need to bump up to a 4th parallel string to maximize my 250/100, currently running 5s3p. Better to leave it slightly under capacity and add those panels to additional sccs for my situation.

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You still running space heaters for load dumps?

Or you starting a sauna business these days?
 
I don't really want to cut a hole in the container... mostly just because the Midea Duo portable isn't a heat pump too... but I probably will do it to get some climate control for the summer. Even with the extra paneling and improved shading of the container, I'm sure it will get near 40°C in there on sunny days.
 
I installed one of these. I was tired of seeing so many crap heaters on Amazon and that one seems really high quality. I manually turn it on when needed. It's nice that it is 240V so that it uses both legs. I had other vendors refuse to sell me one because I wasn't an official HVAC installer :rolleyes:
 
rhino said:
I installed one of these. I was tired of seeing so many crap heaters on Amazon and that one seems really high quality. I manually turn it on when needed. It's nice that it is 240V so that it uses both legs. I had other vendors refuse to sell me one because I wasn't an official HVAC installer :rolleyes:
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Holy rat farts... that's one helluva heater.
 
rhino said:
I installed one of these. I was tired of seeing so many crap heaters on Amazon and that one seems really high quality. I manually turn it on when needed. It's nice that it is 240V so that it uses both legs. I had other vendors refuse to sell me one because I wasn't an official HVAC installer :rolleyes:
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5kW it's a big boy. I like the oil filled convection portables, silent, no real fire risk.
 
Had a bunch of cloud early otherwise would have been a new record in total, new one for the 250. Solid wind so open windows let the heat pass through without overheating the wife.

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Need some help.
I'm using the remote option for ve config.
Loaded setting into very config made my changes and clicked file > save settings.
Went to upload through vrm and I got a warning about loading one file at a tine and valid extentions. I looked at the file saved and they are .vsc files which is not correct.
The file downloaded from the inverter is a .rvsc.txt how do I save it as a valid file?
 
Y'all, I have a multi battery parallel bank that I'm slowly piecing together.
They all run equal length wires to the busbars.

Where and how would I add a Smart Shunt into the mix?
I obviously want all negative loads to run through the shunt, but how would I go about doing that off of a busbar?

There's 5 batteries in parallel.
(with potentially more in the future)

In my head there's many ways to do it, but what is the "most right" way?
 
HRTKD said:
Batteries -> Battery busbar -> shunt -> common busbar
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That's what I was thinking was the most sensible way to do it.
But I don't have a lot of space.

Maybe I'll take the large 12 position busbar (says the guy who claims do not have a lot of space) and cut it down the middle and link the two together through the shunt.
🤔🤦
 
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