Guides: Victron energy management from practice
What we learned running our own house, checked against real measurements.
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Victron battery on a dynamic tariff: what it really saves
Dynamic tariffs like Tibber or aWATTar promise cheap power in the right hours. We worked out how much of that actually reaches a house with a Victron battery.
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Setting up Victron ESS properly: the settings that really count
A Victron ESS already does a lot right without extra software. A few settings are often misunderstood, though, and cost money. We learned this running our own system.
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PV surplus charging with the Victron EV Charging Station
In Auto mode the Victron EV Charging Station can charge on solar surplus only. For that to really work you need to know three settings.
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PV forecasts in fog: why weather models get winter wrong
A battery controller is only as good as its PV forecast. In valleys with winter fog all the major weather models are regularly wrong. We measured by how much, and what helps.