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Hi All Open to suggestions with this one, Having recently replaced my domestic battery bank with sealed cells (Lucas 110AH) but leaving my existing start battery as was (non sealed) my question is this. How best to set the jumpers for battery type. There is only one set of jumpers (sealed, open, gel etc) and I now have two battery types connected? I suspect the answer will be I need to buy another sealed cell for starter and set jumpers for same? Or what might an interim solution might be? Again open to offers and sugggestions! BR Andy

Well, just moved aboard our boat to find the we have a fault with the above unit. Details below:- Background info:- Saturday, week before last we moored in a marina and I connected up the shore power. Turned the Victron over to charge and all was good. Lights on and everything seemed to be working. As I left the boat the fan in the base of the unit kicked in, so left thinking all was fine and the batteries were charging. The next day I get a call from the marina, however I missed it and didn't get in touch until a couple of days later. Apparently there was an alarm going off on the boat so they went and investigated. It turns out that the alarm that was activated was the CO2 one. However, there was no smell. So the batteries for the alarm were removed. Someone looked at the batteries and said they were well past their use by date and it was probably them gassing that caused the alarm. The shore power was disconnected and and the boat locked up. Current status:- Yesterday we moved aboard and I replaced the batteries with some new ones. Checked that we now had a 12v system running again and found it all working as it should. Connected the shore power and found we didn't have any 240v at the sockets. So after testing connections with a multimeter I noticed that nonce of the LEDs were lit on the Victron as they were previously. It didn't make any different if I changed the switch to charge or, with the shore line disconnected, inverter. There wasn't 240v anywhere except for the 240v IN connector on the Victron. Temporary solution was to connect the 240v input and output wires and bypass the unit altogether. My thoughts:- i think something fried in the unit whilst trying to charge the batteries that were knackered. Which is probably what set off the CO2 detector. If anyone has any thoughts or experience on this I'd be pleased to hear them. Since I'm away from the boat for just over a fortnight I'd like to see if there is anything I can test when I return before ripping the unit out and sending it away for repair as a new unit is rather costly and an expense we'd rather not have right now. Thanks, Alan.

Hi all, Just had a new victron multiplus installed ! Very exciting I am no trying to figure out how to use it !! The inverter seems to work fine, switch on inveter and my 240 works.. great ! The charger I am going to try tomorrow with the Genny but my confusion comes from what settings I use to use the power assist feature. there is a switch on for charger or on for inverter but which one would I use for the Genny/ power assist. I would like to run my washing machine by running my generator (honda eu20i) and using the power assist feature to take any extra load from my batteries. Any one have any experience how I would do this? Thanks for your time. Martin