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Time is never guaranteed, Hope you go strong to 90!

Paul, I completely get it. I married up, wife works in wealth management, I’m 49, can retire in 4 months with a pension, I’ve maxed out a supplemental retirement from early on, kids have college accounts. Told her 2.5 years is my max, to put it lightly, I don’t enjoy what I do for a dollar...

Luck I’ll need! No doubt you’re right, more experienced than me, I just know my limitations and with woodworking , it’s reached pretty quick!

My thought was to buy a prefabricated drawer, I’m leaning towards a stainless one, and frame it with 80/20. Woodworking is not my strong suit nor do I have all the tools to build a drawer/frame out of wood. 80/20 looks more like adult Lego’s and that’s about my speed.

Seems to me the foot base/storage area in my 2020 hawk with the front dinette could have been better designed. Mine is essentially a clam shell opening from the front which you can not fully open as it stops where the table top supports are to make that area a bed. It could also be a little...

Seems all is good hooked up to shore power and charged overnight. I’ll start running my refer and see how it goes over a few weeks.

Okay gonna look like a bozo but after coming across the “shore power” thread in this sub forum, and watching the video Stan posted I double checked my kill switch, good to go, but all the circuit breakers going to the inverter were turned off. I’ve had this camper a year and a half and just...

Solar/truck driving

Solar only

Hooked up to shore power

I read through the manual a second time this morning don’t see where I made an error but I’m guessing somewhere I did. I reset the bmv-712 and maybe it corrected itself? I took some screenshots of my camper hooked up to shore power, then solar only and then solar/with my truck on and driving...

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Have to upload the pictures separately.

Hopefully this works trying to upload a picture of my connections.

Thanks for the link Vic, I made the adjustment. I also plugged into shore power and either mixed up the cables along the way or possibly need to just do a reset on the bmv-712. When I plug in shore power the time remaining stays the same as when it’s not plugged in, I double checked and I’ve...

Surprisingly for me at least, it was a pretty easy install for the bmv-712, the shunt and I went ahead and plugged the VE Bluetooth dongle into my mppt. Just wanted to make sure my settings are correct on the bmv-712, I didn’t change any of the settings on the mppt. I’m running two 224 ah...

Not having the BMV-712 in my hands yet (I’ll get it Sunday) you both have helped it all make as best sense as it could. Can’t thank all of you enough and commend you on not only your knowledge but your patience.

Makes perfect sense. I don’t have the shunt, just the BMV-712 and the ve direct Bluetooth dongle. My question is how to run/power both at the same time. The BMV-712 seems to be as easy as swapping out with the overland solar display. However if that is done, to run the VE direct Bluetooth...

That makes sense using the shunt, I’m not the best with all the terminology here’s a link to what I’m referring to being sold as a fwc upgrade to the installed overland solar unit. They’re selling the bmv-712 and the ve direct Bluetooth dongle as a pair...

So if you plug in the dongle to the mppt and the battery display goes dark, is there a way to power the battery display or the bmv-712? Zero Declination sells the bmv-712 and the victron Bluetooth dongle as a package specifically for the FWC overland solar system. I had already bought the...

Thanks for the information heinphoto, I’m leaning towards installing the bmv-712 since it sounds like it’ll monitor the batteries as well as provide the solar data, if I’m understanding all this correctly. In my previous camper a swift model I had 2 12 volt batteries and the same solar set up...

That’s actually a pretty great option, thanks for sharing that.

I think I’ll only swap out for the bmv 712, my title on the thread is incorrect t and as I understand it I can just put in the bmv-712 and get the information I want. The camper is a 2020 model so I think most the stuff is pretty current. I could get by on the current overland display but when...

I appreciate the responses, I’ll do one of the two, the shunt or the 712 likely whichever is easier.

Ckent323 You’re correct, I’m referring to the battery monitor. My system is the overland solar 160 watt panel with the (2) 6 volt batteries. All of it installed by four wheel camper. The current battery monitor is from overland solar , my guess a rebranded victron.