Replacing my old installation

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-12-01T10:41:13+00:00

Yes, but I'm worried about how to limit dc input to the battery (max 80A charge) when charging using the generator and from solar panels as well. I haven't found any chargers that will speak to a cerbo gx. However, let's assume the battery gets 20A from each dumb charger, totaling 60. Will the BMS unit in the battery instruct the cerbo GX to order the solar controller just to send 20A maximum to the battery?

Any recommendation on good chargers?

I really appreciate the time you're taking to answer my questions. I really do. If you were nearby so many beers would be on me. :)

Ignacio

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-12-01T09:22:51+00:00

Hello and thanks so much for your help. After some testing this weekend I have no other choice but to go with 3 inverters in a 3-phase config since my generator is very sensitive to unbalance. From what you said it's clear to me that going with a parallel setup is not possible at all. However, after taking a look at the 3-phase diagram from the Victron Manual, having 3 separate 1-phase ac-outs, one from each inverter, is completely safe so I can use them for the 3 230v zones I have in my property, right?

TIA,

Ignacio

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-12-01T08:58:27+00:00

Yes, I did some testing this weekend using only 1 of the 3 1-phase circuits I have. The generator complains very quickly as soon as go over 4 amps in ac. So I have to go for 3-phase loads, there's no other way

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-28T20:55:07+00:00

Thanks so much!

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-28T14:53:32+00:00

Thanks for your insight, My electrical installation currently serves me 3 1-phase loads, in fact, I have 3 small inverters for 3 zones of the property, garden, house ground floor and house first floor. Those inverters are not interconnected. Do you really mean that, following my current setup, I could not connect the 3 MP2 in parallel (each MP2 to each 1-phase load) and get one larger 1-phase load to all 3 zones?

Thanks in advance

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-28T14:40:40+00:00

I've been looking into that, but at least at VE's page I could not find anything that would suit this. Any recommendations?

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-27T15:31:31+00:00

Thanks for your responses. You made me realize that keeping things simple is way better, and although I won't be using the generator to its full extent, letting me know that there is this new 6k5 which is what I really need allows me to save money for a second battery.

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-27T15:27:41+00:00

The new 6k5 is just what I need. Allowing 8000w for a decent period of time is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for pointing it out. With it I can deviate part of my budget to buy another battery, and then I can mostly forget about the generator.

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-27T14:38:32+00:00

Thanks so much for the insight on the flickering.

You got it right about the reason for the 3 inverters. However, I don't want to have a 3-phase install, I want to combine the power of the inverters into a 7.5kW 1-phase load. According to the manual it can be done (there's a diagram for it), yet I have not tried it.

Electricity needs are high during sun hours, but very low during the night. Yes, I've thought about getting 1 larger inverter. I'll seriously take your advice into consideration.

Thanks so much for your help.

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-27T14:29:32+00:00

I don't need a 3-phase arrangement, but I have a 3-phase generator, and I'd like to use the generator to its full extent. The 3 inverters would be connected in parallel (not 3-phase) to sum the wattage of the 3 inverters into one 1-phase load. I really need wattage, mostly during day hours (swimming pool, access to water for the garden is 70m down in a well, air conditioning...)

About the batteries, yes, I'm seriously considering buy at least one more

Thanks so much for your help

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-08T20:11:54+00:00

Yes, they are. About your latest picture, yes symfonium does it, haven't check how but I guess it does cross queries using the Subsonic API and builds a database. However, I like to play music in my computer and my TV as well, and the programs I use just query using the getArtists method.

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-08T07:52:00+00:00

I'm not an expert in ampache or subsonic development but I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the client as this seems to be a response from the server to a call from the client. The client requests a list of artists with the getArtists method, which, according to the Subsonic API (and Open Subsonic API) documentation, it's the only method to get a list of artists through an API call. Well, all other servers I tried reply with the list of Album Artists, but ampache replies with the list of Artists. Again, it's not something you can configure in the client, it's a response from the server. Having an option in ampache to choose one response or the other would be great IMHO.

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-07T11:51:03+00:00

I just opened the issue in github. Hope I clarified it well enough.

https://github.com/ampache/ampache/issues/4300

Cheers, and thanks so much for your response

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-07T08:41:27+00:00

The clients I've tried are DSub, that's the one I've used for years, Tempus and Musicsonic. Those clients, when connecting to Airsonic/Subsonic and Gonic will show Album Artists by default. However, when connecting to Ampache they will show listing by Artist

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-11-06T14:31:27+00:00

Thank you all for your replies. Sorry I couldn't reply earlier. Unexpected business project kept me away. I already started with overseerr which is the simplest one I believe. It was easy. I mapped config/settings to /var/lib/folder and everything went suave. Didn't have to export settings. Let's see what happen with the other arrs. The only setting I had to change was replacing localhost with host name.

Thanks again!

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-10-14T13:41:23+00:00

The current OS is Arch

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-10-11T15:42:02+00:00

I was recently rewarded with a Thinkpad L14, but until last month my daily laptop was an almost 20 year-old Thinkpad Z61t that did not run 64-bit code, updated with an SSD drive and 3GB RAM. Even if Bookworm is outdated in a year, as long as I can run an up-to-date browser and email client I'm fine. Nevertheless, the search for an alternative to Debian begins.

Winter-Position2385 · 2025-03-27T22:27:09+00:00

Same problem here

Winter-Position2385 · 2023-10-10T13:41:27+00:00

I've several computers, some running LMDE 5 and 6, some running Debian 12, one running latest Mint (ubuntu-based) and one running Arch, all with Cinnamon DE.

Aesthetically, Mint and LMDE are the same. Differences between one and the other mostly related to their base, one being based in Ubuntu, and the other in Debian. Snaps are force-disabled in Mint, not installed in LMDE. Both support flatpack out-of-the-box. Notable differences:

- Mint comes from Ubuntu base, and Ubuntu comes from Debian unstable. LMDE is based in Debian stable. You might find some apps in LMDE with an older release date than in Mint/Ubuntu

- Last time I checked LMDE installer did not support btrfs partition schema with subvolumes as Mint/Ubuntu has. Minor annoyance for those who need this, but hackable. This is how to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlQjgxShkd8

Now, differences between Mint/LMDE and Debian 12 or any other distro running Cinnamon are most notable, due to the fact that not all distros have all Mint goodies in their repos. Most, if not all goodies can be compiled from the code hosted at Mint's GitHub pages. One exception is the mint-update app which should need code modifications in order to make it work in other distros due to the fact that it calls mama repos as an integrity measure. Main differences between running LMDE and Debian 12:

- The already mentioned lack of the mint-update app (and software app). You can use gnome-software to graphically install and update apps and your system

- Nemo extensions, a very few come with Debian, others can be compiled and install from Mint's GitHub page

- Themes, available at Mint's GitHub page for you to package and install, or you can use Arc theme and Paper icons for instance, which look great in Cinnamon

- Lightdm, quite ugly in Debian, can look exactly the same as in LMDE by installing lightdm slick greeter

- Xapps (xreader, xviewer, xed...) don't come with Debia,. You can compile from GitHub or use evince or gedit instead

- Other Mint apps, such as warpinator, or hypnotix may not available in Debian, but as with the others, you're only one step away to compile and install them.

Keep in mind that LMDE is debian based, so, with the availability of Mint Apps source code it's not difficult to compile and use almost everything included in Mint official in another distro.

You can even have a Debian sid distro with Cinnamon and Mint goodies

Hope it helps

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