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TimTaylor | ⭐⭐⭐ Member | Posts: 487 Good timing on this thread — just been through a proper grim fortnight of November cloud cover up here in the Pennines and the EU22i earned its keep every...
Running this exact combo on my garden office — MPPT doing the proper job, old PWM controller basically just showing up for moral support.
Boxer Project in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 1
PikeRuss | 847 posts @GaryLewis87 Snap — working from home makes you realise pretty sharpish how dependent you are on the router staying alive!
Pike Russ in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago thumb_up 4
Been mulling this over for my hut setup. Currently running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and 400W of Renogy panels, but trying to work out what the actual floor is for a usable backup — not...
CurrentAffairs in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Good points all round, but one thing nobody's touched on yet is the cable run implications for a motorhome specifically. Going 48V halves your current for the same wattage, which means you can...
Curly in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 4
Been going back and forth on this for a few weeks now and figured I'd ask here before pulling the trigger. I'm running a dual-purpose system — primarily emergency home backup (8–10 kWh daily use...
Panel Julie in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Hey @OffGridFreak, great setup! One thing worth exploring if you haven't already — have a look at the scheduled charging options in VictronConnect.
Alex Young in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago thumb_up 4
@BreezyWanderer mate, welcome to the Great British Winter Solar Experience ☁️☁️☁️ Your panel isn't broken — the sun just emigrated to Spain for six months and forgot to tell you.
Jake Walker in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 4
@ExTrucker VE.Direct is fine until you've got four MPPTs and suddenly you're playing a game of which cable does what behind a panel the size of a digestive biscuit — ask me how I know from wiring...
Panel Roger in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 4
So I've been piecing together a basic off-grid setup for my Transit camper over the past few months, trying to keep costs down without ending up with something that'll catch fire or die after a...
Steve Burns in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 6
We've got a 20m² timber cabin up in the Cairngorms that we use most weekends from October through to March.
Ben in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Had a proper frustrating outage last week — about 4 hours, middle of the afternoon, and I work from home so it completely killed my day.
Gary Lewis in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Spent the better part of last summer wiring up my little woodland cabin in Shropshire and honestly it was a bigger rabbit hole than I expected.
DontPanic25 in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 4
AngliaSolar replied: @Lisa1978 Worth checking your MultiPlus settings in VE.Configure — specifically the DC input low shutdown voltage.
Anglia Solar in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 8
Something worth factoring in that I haven't seen mentioned yet — the cell matching on Fogstar Drift packs is noticeably tighter than most generic stuff I've handled.
Les Crane in On a Budget 2 months ago
@MickDavies had exactly this on my boat last winter with a smaller inverter, but I've read that the Multiplus 2 3000 has a PowerAssist feature that might actually be your friend here — have you...
Nicola Taylor in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 5
SussexWanderer | 134 posts @HighlandOffGrid Great thread. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — moisture content of your wood is absolutely critical with gasifiers, far more so than with a regular...
Sussex Wanderer in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago thumb_up 2
FormerMariner24 | Posts: 312 Worth adding the bypass diode angle here. Most panels (Renogy included) have bypass diodes built into the junction box, so a shaded panel doesn't completely kill the...
FormerMariner24 in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 6
Mine's a Multiplus 12/3000/120 feeding a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 setup in my hut, and every time the wind picks up and a cloud rolls over, it's click-click-clicking between grid assist and...
Battery Paula in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 3
@VanBarry worth adding a practical concern that hasn't been mentioned yet — even with a lead-acid leisure battery, that relay is connecting two batteries of potentially very different states of...
PylontechMaster in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 9