Victron Energy’s Cerbo GX is a prominent player in the off-grid energy sector, providing comprehensive monitoring of Victron products including inverters, batteries, solar controllers, and more.
These components need to be connected and coordinated to form a complete off-grid power system. Think of the Cerbo as your system’s brain, centrally collecting information from your devices and displaying, logging and controlling.
Display
The Cerbo GX allows the use of an external touch screen for live monitoring on the go. Whether this screen is mounted in a 4×4, caravan, or home, it can be a great way to see what is going on at a glance.
You can monitor battery percentage, solar output, inverter output, DC loads, shore power and much more all on the single 5 or 7 inch touch screen.
From here, we can also change settings, view basic history, and monitor day-to-day usage live and on site.
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Data Logging and Remote Monitoring
If you have an internet connection nearby the system, you can connect the device to Victron’s VRM portal. From here, you can access and control almost anything in your system. This includes a full rundown of history, usage, and more. You can set up custom graphs, push updates, and change settings.
The VRM is the heart and soul of the off-grid system.
Programming and Control
There are plenty of cool things we can do with the Cerbo, for example:
- Automatically turn on the generator at certain states of charge.
- Monitor tanks.
- Trigger relays (could be fans, lights, anything).
- Communicate with batteries.
- Monitor external temperature sensors.
- Parallel or 3-phase inverters.
- Limit global max charge current.
- Update firmware on devices.
- And much more
If you’re not a tech whizz and this sounds complex, a brilliant feature of the Cerbo is that we can remotely program it all for you!
Victron has a wide range of other GX devices. These include and are not limited to: Ekranos GX, Colour Control GX, Venus GX.
Overall, the Cerbo is the central unit and a must have for most off-grid Victron sytems. See the link below to get your hands on one of these yourself.
Cerbo GX & GX Touch
