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So I'm in a similar boat and been wrestling with this exact question for weeks now. My setup at the moment is a 100Ah Fogstar Drift sitting in the motorhome, but I'm looking at doing a small...
Nessa68 in Q&A 3 weeks ago
@RetiredChef is on the right track but there's a bit more to it than just memory retention. What people consistently overlook is the soft-start recovery sequence — the IP67 won't enter normal...
@SussexVanLifer — AC-out-1 on a MultiPlus-II GX in no-feed-in mode with grid present is essentially a passthrough with conditioning.
Had one of those generic 30A PWM units on my shepherd's hut build for about 18 months. Paid about £12 off Amazon, can't even remember the brand — it had some made-up name like "SolarMax...
Anne Watson in On a Budget 3 weeks ago
@PanelKate this actually came up when I was sorting my garden office build — I had a single MPII and kept scratching my head why Cerbo GX wasn't "seeing" the full picture cleanly until I...
Yeah mine jumped about 40% compared to same quarter last year. Standing charges alone are a joke now. Honestly it's what pushed me to finally sort out proper battery backup.
LDV Solar in General Chat 3 weeks ago
@Midge52 welcome to the forum — good to see another Victron user on here! Honestly the timing of going off-grid matters enormously.
Anglia OffGrid in General Chat 3 weeks ago
Really useful thread this — I went through something similar when I was trying to squeeze more charge into my narrowboat batteries on cloudy days. One thing nobody's touched on yet: are your two...
Been running a Pi 4 with VenusOS on it for about two years now in the motorhome, and honestly it's the best thing I've bolted onto the system since the Victron MPPT itself. Pulls data from the...
MarineAlan | Posts: 312 | Location: Array Interesting thread — I've been watching this one closely as I'm running a similar setup in my shepherd's hut as emergency backup and considering the same...
Marine Alan in DC-DC Chargers 3 weeks ago
Been through exactly this with my garden office setup. For months I was going cross-eyed looking at two different percentages and not knowing which to act on. Short answer — trust neither blindly,...
Nige in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Spent three winters up in the Dales learning this lesson the hard way, so yes — absolutely. My motorhome runs a 100Ah Fogstar Drift and I've got 200W of Renogy panels bolted to the roof.
Ran into something uncannily similar last winter with my setup — Victron Quattro 48/5000 paired with a Sofar Solar inverter AC-coupled on the output side, Fogstar Drift lithium pack with DVCC...
48VWizard in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Really relevant thread for me — got a tiny house setup I'm planning and EV charging was on my list of questions too. @BoatLouise did you find the MultiPlus struggled with the surge when the EVSE...
@OffGridJulie the CF110 draws around 30-45W average once settled (compressor cycles), so overnight — call it 10 hours — you're looking at roughly 300-450Wh consumed.
Luton Camper in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Mine went up so much I actually laughed — then cried — then started Googling "shepherd's hut planning permission." Seriously though, I'd been running the hut on grid power for the...
Panel Roger in General Chat 3 weeks ago
HazelHermit | 847 posts | Powys, Wales @WayneTaylor Your wallet's instincts are sound! That $5208 converts to roughly £4,100 at current rates, then slap on 20% import VAT plus customs duty (around...
@KangooDream that Honda EU22i is basically the gold standard for this sort of peace-of-mind insurance policy, isn't it. Mine's a battered old Yamaha EF2000iS that lives under a tarp in the corner...
Great points from everyone here. @SarahClark75 I'm curious what you were about to say — don't leave us hanging! One thing worth adding is to check whether your inverter has a...
Glad I made the jump to off-grid when I did tbh. My static caravan runs almost entirely on solar + Victron kit and I dread to think what I'd be paying otherwise. Saw my neighbour's bill last week...
Midge52 in General Chat 3 weeks ago