Hi Folks,
Recently returned from a weeklong trip to Maine in our Cirrus 620 (with Battle Born upgrade). Everything worked great electrically/solar on the trip. Now the camper has been off the truck for a week in preparation for winterization.
I checked the Victron apps today and they're showing the battery current at around 11.67 (in SmartSolar & SmartShunt—see sceenshots below). That didn't look good to me so I plugged the camping in to our 15 amp home service (which I've done before). Now the VE.Bus doesn't show the AC coming in so the battery isn't charging.
Can anyone please explain this to me? Am I doing something wrong? Like I said, I've plugged my camper into house power before and seen the current coming in in VE.Bus.
Thanks in advance!
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2020 nuCamp T@B 320S * Jeep Wrangler
(47,171 towing miles through the end of 2024)
What's got me scratching my head is that everything was working perfectly two weeks ago when I plugged the camper in to chill the fridge and top off the battery before our trip. They VE.Bus saw the AC power coming in. It all worked flawlessly during the trip as well—solar charge well, my Renogy solar suitcase and Victron controller worked well. Now the camper is off the truck. The ONLY thing that I did different was to turn on the battery heating switch as we've had some below 35˚ nights here in Vermont (I'm guessing that might have contributed to the drain and its OFF now.)
This morning I toggled the Main breaker in the breaker panel and now I'm hearing a 4-tone chime emanating from the battery compartment about every minute or so.
Thoughts?
My understanding regarding the Multiplus "On" setting is that it should be "Off" when I don't need to use AC in the camper (for the microwave or other appliance as it drains power). That was my experience while camping last week.
So, once my battery is back to full charge (in Float state), please let me know what I need to do to reset things. The SOC, Synchronize, and other options confuse me a bit.
Thanks again for everyone's help. Much appreciated!
I have 1 Battleborn SmartLithium 270Ah battery. I will go through the setups suggested by the BB pages you referenced. Hopefully things will get back to "normal".
Next step is figuring out winterization of my battery system given that I live in Vermont where wintertime lows can drop into the -15 to -20 range sometimes. Happy to take any suggestions, and I will search this forum for such recommendations.
Basically correct if you're out camping, but "off" means off for both the inverter and the charger. There is a "charger only" setting that turns off the inverter while still charging the battery.
Sometimes ya just gotta fess-up that you're an idiot...