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Ah, sorry... posted my results in my signature thread, but to summarize: It was extremely easy to do. Connection via the VictronConnect app was painless. Only required the slightest Linux knowledge to enable the monitor for output. Next step will be to install a very cheap 7" touchscreen...

Love that its a single box for 240V split phase for us North Americans. This should be a wakeup call to Victron - they need to come up with something similar.

Ah ha! 600V is what it tolerates, but only runs from 70-550V. So rather than call it 550V with HyperVOC, they just call it 600V. Still cool.

Here's a little something that is likely more painful than it worth - but list all the products you carry on your website. I know if its Victron, you either have it in stock or can get it quickly, but that isn't obvious on your website. Maybe, given that we are talking Victron, break those...

Seems having a personal journey thread is encouraged here, so here goes... (apologies for duplicate info from my earlier threads) So a couple of months ago we got hit with a 37 hour power outage. After watching solar develop over the past 50ish years (since my Dad first brought home a solar...

Filters and searching that work right are wonderful. Searching that is broken is worse than none at all (Home Depot's is often broken for example: Like searching for 6 gauge wire and having 14 gauge show up...). Keep up the good work!

Dexter at CurrentConnected came through, on a Saturday night no less. Apparently the Current Sense plug had shorted. Inserting an appropriate size probe solved the problem instantly. (old photo, but you can see it in the lower right corner)

Yet another reference here. Two key statements of interest to us: "As well as a tariff increase from 25% to 100% on EVs, levies will rise from 7.5% to 25% on lithium batteries, from zero to 25% on critical minerals, from 25% to 50% on solar cells, and from 25% to 50% on semiconductors." and...

Early February, 2024: Time to get up to speed with current tech. First stop was DIYSolarForU.com, mostly from previous searches. I was initially very impressed with their systems in no small part because of their FCC certificates. I figured if they cared enough to be 18db below the required...

Actually, my first Victron Multiphase is on order. That one will be 120V office electronics. Phase 2 will be a pair of them for 240V split phase and will be a 48V system. Phase 3 will be adding solar to the Phase 2 battery bank. Just trying to think and plan ahead, not buying ahead...

I'm still in the "Where should I put my panels" mode (compliments of living on a farm I have both space and no regulations). Vertical looks interesting since it would eliminate snow load (and benefit from snow on the ground) and that is going to be the scenario where I would get the least power...

I live in Rural Missouri. UPS service is much better than Fed-Ex, who drives me a bit nuts. For instance, Wednesday I received a e-mail that my Victron unit and related supplies were going to be delivered on Thursday between 10 and 2:30pm. Thursday morning received an e-mail that my stuff on...

Thanks folks. Had a humility moment... thinking how much lighter LiFePO4 batteries are - only about 25lbs per 12V100A. Didn't do the simple math: 4X25 = 100lbs each. At 65, that is an issue. On the other hand, having the integrated communications (in the pro model) means I could presumably...

Again, only doing this for my current setup, which is basically a UPS (Multiplus II + batteries), and I already have the MK3-USB and the RPi. Don't have any VE.direct devices or VE.CAN devices. I agree, on my next phase using a pair of 3000s to provide 240V I'll just get a Cerbo. In the...

1am... but making progress: Some weirdness. The incoming amperage and wattage was displaying until I forced the inverter on (by unplugging the unit). They have not returned. AC out is also clearly wrong. But that is a job for tomorrow. Night all!

Just stumbled on this link: LF280K That price is about $150 in 12V100A equivalence. Of course, one would need to add a BMS.

Got to be just a bit careful is your using a AC-DC power supply for the Cerbo and that power supply is on the AC OUT side of inverter. Apparently the inverter won't power up until the Cerbo does, so you can get yourself in a catch 22 situation - or so I've read. Therefore, powering off the...

Living on a farm, UL is not required - but sure would be nice to have for my own peace of mine. Farm life is, ah, different. When I built my 2000amp 240V data center, the electric coop dropped off a pair of pad mounted 175KW transformers (7200 volt feeds transformed to (5) 200amp 240V feeds...

90s or not, nothing beats hard wired.

Put it back together and: Working as expected! (power a bit higher than usual since the charger is running in Absorb mode). BTW - Until I feel like tweaking it a bit more, that is my Grafana customized screen (on my own web server, comfortably tucked behind my firewall - so no VRM security...

Bad language choice on my part. Should not have said "power itself off" but rather "power itself from".

Alas I'm USA based, shipping from NL would probably be prohibitive. As would any return issues.

Biggie for me is the Pi's lack of relay ports. Yeah, one can add them to the GPIO pins, but by then its likely the Cerbo is cost competitive. Close already once, as someone else pointed out, you factor in cableing. Plus no CAN support for batteries.

Yeah, coming to that same conclusion. Cost more... worth it.

Thanks. I was under the impression UL actually did testing as well as standard setting. Thanks for correcting that understanding. I love that you have many options to meet different need profiles. Perhaps it would help others if you incorporated most of the above into your website? e.g...

End of February - parts from Current Connected arrived. Everything hooked up as expected and somehow to my surprise, worked right out of the box so-to-speak. I did have a couple of day delay because I did not realize the Victron Multiplus II required ferruled AC connections. That was a tool I...

Next day, after allowing things to settle, I did a full quick UPS test, unplugging the AC input from the Multiplus. Nothing blinked, PC continued to run, no complaints from Alexia, lights over my office plant stayed on, all good. Hooked up the MK3-USB cable I had bought along with the unit and...

Spent last night thinking about a Cerbo, probably a -S vs. the full GX. I'm not fond of the idea of having my private electrical system accessible from the Internet, but kind folks here pointed out I could do a Grafina based local server equivalent to Victron's VRM system. That sounded like a...

Probably more of a consumer protection thing than anything else. Never underestimate the general populations ability to do stupid things. I remember back in 2014 a guy that bought 10s of thousands of dollars of cybercoin miners and had no idea how to configure them, or that 30amp 220V...

Because having to use 2 boxes instead of a single one just seems odd? Because Midnight MPPT controllers can handle 600V vs. Victron's 450V? (and perhaps have that 48V buffer Midnight is famous for where the unit shutdowns over 600V but does not fry until over 648V). Because it would be nice...