How to Connect Your Victron System to VRM Online Portal for Real-Time Energy Monitoring

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Really bad video. I found it useless.

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Thank you for the feedback.

[@lisam4503]

@@TheOffGridShop My apologies for being so blunt. I should have broke it down as to why I felt that way. To help you with useful feedback. It's been a while since I watched it so I am not exactly sure why all I felt that way. In just starting to watch a short bit of it again its that its not more first time user friendly or for those less technologically geeky. I am running two Victron controllers now a 100/50 and a 150/60.. Their products are great! Their instruction manual that you have to use a magnifying glass to read isn't. Then on the 100/50 controller the pin is on the side of the unit. Nothing in the instructions could I find to tell you that and the generic code doesn't work on that model. Then on the 150/60 no pin on the side and you have to use the generic code. I am a DIY off grid solar person. One off the things for me personally I found out was I had to tune out the solar geeks. If I hadn't I never would have went on solar. I didn't have the time or money when I started out to do power audits and all the math to see what size system I needed. I needed what I could afford to start bringing in adequate power to just run my 12v RV system. Then as I went I could build on it to meet other needs like cooling and entertainment. As bad as that sounds I think it really gave me an education on just how much you could do with x amount of panels and x amount of battery storage in the Arizona desert. Started out with a pwm controller, 80 watts of solar and a single car battery lent to me. If that hadn't been lent to me I never would have went on solar. Then going to 320 watts of solar panels, an Epever MMPI controller and 420 ah of golf cart batteries. That actually allowed me to run a 3100 cfm evap cooler and a portable washing machine and lights, computer and TV plus other 12v needs. Now I am at the point my system is 6 times that with 1000ah of lithium batteries and 840 ah of golf cart batteries. I kind of look at solar now as like assembling Ikea furniture. If you can assemble that furniture you can assemble a solar system. Just keep it more simple to start and learn the more complex things as you go and get light bulb going off moments.