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Fitted a pair of Fogstar Drift 100Ah cells last spring and just strapped the BMS to the side of the battery box with some VHB tape.
TimGreen | 412 posts Just to add a practical angle here — I had almost identical symptoms last January in my workshop setup.
Tim Green in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 3
NorfolkBoater | Posts: 847 @JakeShaw96 Welcome to the rabbit hole mate! For a static shepherd's hut I'd seriously consider 48V from the off, even if it feels like overkill right now.
Norfolk Boater in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 8
@KevLee had almost exactly this happen at the static van last winter. Turned out my BMS was tripping on low temperature cutoff — cells dropped below the protection threshold overnight and that was...
OldSailor79 in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 9
@BatteryTony this is really relevant to my situation — I'm planning a mixed bank for my garden office build and hadn't even considered the SOC accuracy implications with the Cerbo GX. Quick...
Holly Gazer in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Compo89 | 234 posts @PanelMike worth thinking seriously about battery capacity alongside the panel wattage - people often fixate on the generation side but a decent battery bank matters just as...
Compo89 in Garden Offices 6 months ago thumb_up 8
@BreezyHermit this brought back memories of last February in my static caravan in the Cairngorms — woke up to a completely dead system, couldn't understand why the Victron MPPT was showing no...
RetiredNurse58 in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 4
Just started putting together my first proper off-grid setup for a static shepherd's hut in rural Wales and I'm absolutely drowning in conflicting advice online.
Jake Shaw in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 5
@EwanChapman Fellow shepherd's hut builder here — I went through exactly this dilemma last year. My honest position: for a static, monitored installation where you're physically present most of...
Battery Emma in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Great topic @RetiredEngineer86 — I've been running a 100Ah Drift with a SmartSolar 100/30 for about eight months now and it's been rock solid. One thing worth adding to whatever @GaryParker97 has...
Breezy Captain in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 5
MoorRuss | 156 posts With lead-acid you're only using ~50% of that 200Ah before you're damaging it, so you effectively have a 100Ah bank — which on a liveaboard is basically a polite suggestion...
Moor Russ in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 6
@Chopper42 yeah, relays are pretty much a dead-end solution once you go lithium. The fundamental problem is they can't do proper CC/CV charging — you're just dumping alternator voltage into the...
Louise in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 6
@GafferTapeKing worth checking your battery capacity setting in VE.Configure – if it's set too low, the MultiPlus calculates charge current relative to that figure and can trigger the float...
Ian in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Been through this exact headache on my motorhome build. The Multiplus has an input current limit setting in VE.Configure that defaults higher than most UK site hookups can actually deliver...
Vicky Fisher in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 9
SunnyNomad | 23 posts | New Member Watching this thread closely — I've got a Victron SmartSolar 75/15 and a single Fogstar 100Ah as emergency backup at home, and I've been wondering whether a Pi...
Sunny Nomad in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Haha seems like this thread is cursed — everyone's getting cut off mid-post 😄 Anyway, van rather than boat here so slightly different context, but I went Fogstar 100Ah cells with a Victron BMS and...
Brummie86 in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 1
LochStu | Posts: 412 @MountainBarry worth noting that the lower voltage cells (your 2.8V ones) aren't necessarily deeply discharged — LiFePO4 has such a flat discharge curve that a small voltage...
Loch Stu in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 2
Finally got round to installing a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30A (yes I know, slightly undersized but it's what I had spare) in my Transit-based van build.
Paddy in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago
Scouse16 | 203 posts @TerryScott72 Worth checking what your Daly's low temp cutoff is set to — some of them are configured to disconnect charging below 5°C which can make it seem like you've lost...
Scouse16 in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 8
@SimonJohnson67 the portable suitcase panel route is genuinely viable for a two-week hire — I ran a Bluetti EB70S paired with a folding 120W panel on a similar setup last year purely as emergency...
Crafter Dream in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 7