Alway Swilby

We cruised the full length of the Basingstoke Canal last year in our narrowboat. We have a 2'6" draft and only just managed the "Surrey Pound". The level has been dropped about 4" due to a leaking bank. We needed to take everything off the roof to get under the lowest bridge. Despite it's name the canal doesn't actually go to Basingstoke any more. A collapsed tunnel and the M3 motorway are in the way. Odiham is the nearest you can get and I doubt you'd find a non visitor mooring anywhere nearby.

They are in a good place for inspecting Hull 😀

I don't see anything in the article about having to upload the photos to their web site every day, or at all, only that you should take a photo. We tend to do that anyway. Location data on the phone is just permanently on once you have turned it on. You will only need these photos if you get into a dispute with CRT about your movements.

I was wondering that too. Or are they just showing them the way through the sandbanks 😅

Hooray!!

Four tugs, a pilot boat and a Humber Rescue boat all milling around the stuck ship at the moment. High tide is due at Hull at 1910.

I was at the tip today and saw this in the small electrical appliances cage. I thought of @IanD

ZZZ is the correct answer 😊 Thanks

Hooray!! 😊Ribbon cable was the culprit. Thanks all especially @cheesegas and @IanD. There's some chunky hardware behind that daughter board! Telephone systems from 1983 to 2014 never had such chunky stuff!

Thanks @IanD I have now reverted to 2.53 and the old v1 GUI. No change I'm afraid.

Thanks @cheesegas for the info. Do you mean the ribbon cable on the bottom right in this photo or do I have to take off the main board? I haven't got ve.config connected yet, I'll let you know. Also it's not a Compact, but a standard Multiplus.

Thanks Nick. I tried ZZZZ and Z and also ZZZZZZ but not ZZZ, because by then I was going to sleep 🤣

As an aside, is anyone prepared to tell me what the passcode is that allows me to progam the Multiplus directly via the usb mk3 connector and the Victron Connect software? I am able to configure the Multiplus using ve-config but would like to see what Connect looks like. I get connected ok but it requires a passcode to look at anything.

Yes... I have come to that conclusion too 😞. I'll take the cover off tomorrow and see what I can see. I can't find a reference to "current sensor" in the manual though. All those high hopes dashed!! 🙂

Well that looks very interesting. Although they have a newer Multiplus II. I'll have a look through the manual for the equivalent on mine.

I can't remember exactly when it stopped working but I'll roll back to 2.53 and see what happens. It is currently at 2.54 so it's only one issue back and its dated 07/01/25 so its not that old. I'll do it tomorrow when I'm on site. And in the meantime I've disabled auto updates just in case a new release comes out this afternoon!

The trouble is that I can't remember exactly when it went wrong. I do have an option to revert to 2.53 on the GX. I might try that too. I'm going quiet now for a bit. Lunchtime calls.

The date on the firmware is 28/01 /2025. The system is set to update automatically so probably soon after that. Perhaps I'll turn V1 back on and see what happens.

I forgot to mention that when the shore power is disconnected all the readings including AC out are correct. This does sort of point to incorrect detection of incoming AC current.

Probably a good guess. I was thinking along those lines. The trouble is that it is expensive to get a new one to find out that actually it is the Venus GX that is faulty. In my working days we had "diagnostic kits" with known working spares to suss out such things. Good idea.

Yes. Happy to wait a few days for them to respond. a few days ago I also posted on a couple of FB groups: Victron Energy and 12v Boating Group but as yet they haven't come up with anything.

Well this is interesting. These have been taken just now via the remote console. The first one shows an AC out reading that I would expect right now, a couple of remote cameras etc. but the second one is of the overall view screen and doesn't match the first.

I will try the ve.bus restart if it's available on the GX. I'm going to the boat tomorrow so I'll do it then. I prefer doing things on site!

I have rebooted everything including turning off the battery isolators. It is an older Venus GX but running the latest firmware available. V2

The readings are the same locally so yes it's a local issue. I've been trying to think of such little things but can't think of anything.