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VANILLA POWER
Sunlight. Stored charge. The story between the two.
SMARTSOLAR + SMARTSHUNTIMPORT VICTRON CSV ↗
24/24 // COMPLETE DAYS ONLYRecords, averages and comparisons exclude partial days and today. Times are local, as exported.
VALIDATED CALENDAR DAYS
LATEST COMPLETE READINGS
Only completed past calendar days appear here. Today's readings and incomplete imports remain in the owner import diagnostics.
HISTORICAL BASELINE
THE COMPLETE PICTURE
SMARTSOLAR // THE CONTROLLER’S OWN RECORDEVERY DAY.
200 W ROOF ARRAYEVERY DAY.
EVERY WATT.
What the roof harvested. How hard it worked. What the battery saw.
21 Sept – 20 Oct · 30 completed daily summaries · current and partial records excluded. Each displayed date also has validated complete hourly solar coverage.
28.1% MORE SOLAR IN THE LATEST WEEK
1,460 Wh in the latest seven consecutive completed controller dates, against 1,140 Wh in the preceding seven. This comparison ends 20 Oct; it is independent of the selected range.
SELECT A BAR TO OPEN THE DAYHARVEST50 Wh PEAK PV POWER24 W MAX PV VOLTAGE32.73 V BATTERY MIN / MAX12.94 / 13.91 V
20 Oct // SOLAR DNA
Bulk 9h 27mAbsorption 0h 0mFloat 0h 0m
Stage bar shows proportions of recorded charging-stage minutes, not a timeline or a full 24-hour day. Orion and Blue Smart charging may influence the battery voltage and stage transitions.
NO FLOAT RECORDED
The controller did not record float. This does not prove a fault or exclude charging from another source.
NO NON-ZERO ERROR CODES
All supplied error slots are clear for this day; not a whole-system health certificate.
SMARTSHUNT MATCH · 73.2% at 00:00 → 57.7% at 23:00. Recorded minimum 51.6%. This is a 23-hour endpoint change, not a midnight-to-midnight energy total.
Hourly export: 44 Wh; controller minus hourly = 6 Wh. Sources remain separate. Differences can involve aggregation or timing; the cause is not established.
SMARTSHUNT SCREENSHOT · 18 OCTOBER 2026
THE ACCOUNTANT // CAPTURED HISTORY
Cumulative device counters captured in VictronConnect, separate from complete-day analytics. History reset at the Fogstar installation on 5 October; these are not daily totals or a capacity test.
Orion / Blue Smart — not separately measured. These counters cannot tell us how much each charger supplied or which appliance used the energy. The 0.3 kWh difference is not a measured efficiency loss.
RECORDED MONITOR SETTINGS
105 Ah capacity · charged voltage 14.0 V · tail current 4% (4.2 A) · charged detection 3 minutes · Peukert 1.05 · charge efficiency 99% · current threshold 0.10 A · discharge floor 0% · current direction Normal · time-to-go averaging 3 minutes · keep SOC on reset.
These are the supplied SmartShunt settings, not charger settings or a recommended configuration. Displayed SOC was 70.5%; no live reading is implied. Recorded average discharge 59 Ah; two synchronisations; last full charge 1 day 14 hours before capture; no recorded high/low voltage alarms. Starter input showed 0.00 V and is not treated as a starter-battery diagnosis.
THE ARCHIVE // QUALITY BEFORE QUANTITY
DATA HEALTH
SMARTSOLAR28 Aug 2026 → 20 Oct 2026
54 historical complete days · 0 partial days excluded
Missing hours: 0 · Invalid required values: 0
Last successful upload: 21/10/2026, 08:06:37
SMARTSHUNT07 Oct 2026 → 22 Oct 2026
16 historical complete days · 0 partial days excluded
Missing hours: 0 · Invalid required values: 0
Last successful upload: 23/10/2026, 20:15:35
VANILLA // CURRENT ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Fogstar 105 Ah LiFePO₄ · 12.8 V nominal · 105 Ah · approximately 1.34 kWh. Victron SmartShunt; Victron SmartSolar MPPT 75/15; Victron Orion Smart 30 A DC-DC; PV Logic PS-8688 200 W thin rigid-frame roof panel; Victron Blue Smart charger. Sargent EC155 habitation/distribution; Sargent mains charger isolated. Separate portable energy banks, not part of the fixed 12 V leisure battery.
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