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Victron GlobalLink 530 Review: Remote Monitoring With No Monthly Bill

Victron's new GlobalLink 530 sends your system's vitals to the free VRM portal every 15 minutes over 4G LTE, with a 5-year prepaid SIM in the box — no contract, no monthly bill. What it connects, t...

How to Store Your Electric Outboard for the Off-Season: Battery, Motor, and Anodes

The end-of-season routine for TEMO, Torqeedo, and ePropulsion electric outboards: where to park the lithium battery (40–80%, and where each brand lands), how to rinse and dry the motor before stora...

The 10 Victron Troubleshooting Questions We Hear the Most (and the Quick Fixes)

Before you decide it's broken: the ten Victron issues we field most at Blue Marine — stalled firmware updates, a wrong state of charge, VE.Bus error codes, tripped shore power, a silent DC-DC charg...

Victron MultiPlus 48/20000 Review: 20,000 Watts From One Box

Victron's new flagship MultiPlus delivers 20 kW continuous, a 25 kW one-minute surge, and a 250-amp charger from a single unit. Wesley reviews the numbers, opens the service panel, and covers the N...

2027 Electrical Goals: How to Plan Your Boat or RV Upgrade

Most boat and RV owners think about electrical upgrades reactively — when the batteries die, when the inverter fails, when a trip gets cut short. The end of a year is a natural moment to be proacti...

How to Set Up the Victron Connect App on Your Phone

VictronConnect is Victron Energy’s free mobile app — available for iOS and Android — that connects to Victron devices over Bluetooth. Every Victron product with a “Smart” designation is compatible...

Electric Outboard Maintenance Guide: How to Keep Your Motor Running

Electric outboards have a fraction of the moving parts of a gas motor — no fuel system, no ignition, no oil changes. But they still require routine care, and the items that matter most are differen...

Victron MultiPlus-II 12/4000 Review: The 12V Power Ceiling Just Moved

The new MultiPlus-II 12/4000 breaks the 12V line's 3,000 VA ceiling — 3,400 watts continuous, a 6,000-watt surge, and a 160-amp charger. Wes unboxes, installs, and configures the new flagship on ou...

Planning Your Spring Electrical Upgrade: How to Get a Head Start This Winter

Most electrical upgrades happen in the spring — and most of the pain around them comes from people who didn’t plan until spring. Parts with 6-week lead times. Installers who were fully booked in Fe...

Best Victron Products for a First-Time Boat Electrical Upgrade

Victron Energy makes dozens of products across battery monitoring, solar, inverters, chargers, DC-DC chargers, and system integration. For someone upgrading a boat’s electrical system for the firs...

PWM vs MPPT Solar Charge Controllers: What's the Difference?

Every solar panel installation needs a charge controller — a device that sits between the panels and the battery bank and manages how power flows from one to the other. There are two fundamentally...

Complete Guide to Marine Shore Power: Connections, Safety, and Best Practices

Shore power is the foundation of a boat’s electrical system when it’s at the dock — it charges the battery bank, runs AC loads directly, and powers the inverter/charger. But marine shore power has ...

How to Size a DC-DC Charger for Your Van or RV

A DC-DC charger is the right way to charge an auxiliary (house) battery from your vehicle’s alternator — whether you’re in a van, RV, truck camper, or boat. It does something a simple battery-to-b...

Lithium Battery BMS Explained: What It Does and Why It Matters

Every LiFePO4 battery has one. You can't buy a reputable lithium battery without it. But “the BMS” gets treated as a black box — something you’re told to trust without being told what it actually d...

Victron VE.Bus Smart Dongle: What It Does — and What It Doesn't

The VE.Bus Smart Dongle gives your MultiPlus, MultiPlus-II, or Quattro Bluetooth monitoring and control in VictronConnect — what it does, what it doesn't, and the five-minute install.

Victron Blue Smart Charger: IP22 vs IP65 vs IP67 — Which Do You Need?

The Victron Blue Smart Charger comes in three IP ratings — IP22, IP65, and IP67 — and the right choice depends almost entirely on where the charger lives on your boat, RV, or off-grid build. Wesley...

Ultimate ePropulsion Evo Controls Guide: Tiller, Remote & Side Mount Explained

The ePropulsion Evo control system is universal — the same throttle electronics work across the Spirit Evo outboards, the heavy-duty Navy Evo series, and ePropulsion’s electric Pod Drives. What cha...

Constant Connectivity on the Water: Roam Marine Monitor Hub Review

The Roam Marine Monitor Hub is a cellular monitoring system that watches your boat while you’re away from the dock — battery voltage, bilge activity, GPS position, temperature, and more — and sends...

Mass Energy Storage Anywhere: MESSX Power Station Review

The MESSX is what happens when you take Victron’s most capable components and engineer them into a single rugged cabinet that can roll onto a concert stage, charge EVs in a field, or power a city e...

Common Lithium Battery Installation Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them)

Lithium (LiFePO4) batteries deliver meaningfully better performance than AGM — higher usable capacity, longer cycle life, faster charging, and lighter weight. But they’re not drop-in replacements. ...

Victron Lynx Product Line Overview: Busbars, Distributors, and Shunts

The Victron Lynx system is a modular high-current DC busbar and distribution framework — the clean, engineered alternative to fabricating your own copper busbar connections in a large battery insta...

Common Victron Questions, Answered from the Shop Floor

The Victron troubleshooting questions we hear every week — MultiPlus-II, SmartSolar MPPT, and SmartShunt — answered the way we'd answer them if you called the shop.

Victron Lithium NG vs. Lithium Smart: Is the Upgrade Worth It?

Victron’s Lithium Smart batteries have been a benchmark for marine, RV, and off-grid power systems for years. The Lithium NG is the next generation — same proven LFP cell chemistry, but with a sign...

ePropulsion Spirit 1.0 Evo & Plus Explained: Features and Differences

The ePropulsion Spirit 1.0 Plus and Spirit 1.0 Evo are both 1,000-watt electric outboards — quiet, clean alternatives to a 3 horsepower gasoline motor — and at a glance they look nearly identical. ...

Isolated vs Non-Isolated: Which Victron Orion DC-DC Device Do You Need?

Isolated or non-isolated? Our ABYC-certified team explains exactly what the difference means, when you need each one, and which Victron Orion device is right for your boat, RV, or off-grid system.

High Performance Lithium: Epoch Battery Lineup Reviewed

Epoch Batteries is a US-based, veteran-owned company with a straightforward value proposition: high-quality LiFePO4 batteries backed by an 11-year warranty across the entire lineup. Wesley walks th...

What is Victron Energy? A Plain-English Guide for New Buyers

If you’re new to off-grid power or marine electrical and keep seeing the Victron name everywhere — on forums, in installer recommendations, on boats and vans — this is the post that explains why. B...