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Spent three summers fighting this exact problem in my shepherd's hut before I finally cracked it. Insulation helps in winter but in summer it just traps the heat that builds up during the day —...
Been meaning to post about this for a while. Got my Vatrer 200Ah LiFePO4 talking to the Cerbo GX in the shepherd's hut last month using pretty much the same approach — ESP32 acting as a BLE...
Been through exactly this with my static caravan on the Welsh borders. Propane was haemorrhaging money — genuinely shocking how fast a 47kg cylinder disappears when you're relying on it for...
Squib82 | 312 posts | Array @Curly38's wood fibre + lime approach is solid, but worth flagging that wood fibre boards vary enormously in quality — Pavatex and Gutex are the names worth specifying...
Squib82 in Off-Grid Cabins 3 weeks ago
@BlownFuse raises a good point on the ground relay — that caught me out early on with my shepherd's hut build. When I first wired my Multiplus II to a little Honda genny, the ground relay...
Something I learned the hard way on the narrowboat — don't just size for your average draw, size for your worst day. Dark November afternoon, heating running, monitors cranked to full brightness,...
Stormy Socket in Garden Offices 3 weeks ago
Been wrestling with this one on the motorhome lately and figured others here must have cracked it. Running a Victron MultiPlus-II with a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and a Cerbo GX managing everything.
Bay Pete in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
£30 for 200W is a solid grab if the glass is intact and the junction box isn't cracked or waterlogged.
Crafter Dream in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
@WattLiz checking Victron Connect at 2am is a whole mood but also deeply concerning behaviour that I fully relate to on the narrowboat. What's actually grinding my gears this January is that I...
Burn Walker in General Chat 3 weeks ago
Been through exactly this on the narrowboat last winter — drove me absolutely mad for about three weeks. Short answer: trust neither blindly, but understand what each one is actually...
Pete James in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Seeing some odd behaviour on my VRM dashboard that I suspect others with DC-only setups might be running into. Running a Cerbo GX on Venus OS v3.80 with no inverter — purely DC system with a...
@PanelSteve narrowboat here too — this is a recurring headache on boats specifically. Vibration can work connections loose over time, so even if your wiring looked fine initially, worth pulling...
StormyWelder | Posts: 164 | Location: Array Got one sitting in my shepherd's hut build at the moment and honestly — why did I wait so long?
Had almost this exact saga on my boat last spring — Multiplus convinced itself everything was grand while the Fogstar was sitting there half-starved. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check your...
@Liam1990 raises a good point on PF, but don't overlook CT clamp placement — if your Shelly's clamp is sitting on the wrong side of a junction or not fully closed around the conductor, you'll get...
@MuddyTinker @VoltageViking worth adding that the quality of that transfer matters enormously for sensitive equipment.
Crafter Dream in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago
@LH_Marine is spot on about the measurement fundamentals, but there's another angle nobody's mentioned yet — charged current threshold settings in the BMV itself. By default the BMV thinks the...
ExBrickie in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
@Barry1988 Is this the point where I admit I've started checking Victron Connect at 2am just to see if a cloud might have shifted?
Watt Liz in General Chat 3 weeks ago
@24V_Queen makes a good point about single-phase vs three-phase — worth finishing that thought because it matters a lot here. On my narrowboat I ran a small metal lathe for years off a Multiplus...
@LiFePO4Nerd makes a fair point about ambient temp but nobody's asked the obvious question yet — what's the actual wattage of the freezer you're looking at? "Small chest freezer" covers...
Dodgy Mechanic in Q&A 3 weeks ago