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BatteryAlan | 2,156 posts @ExFirefighter DC-coupling is the right call for marine — every watt counts when a grey November sky in Chichester Harbour is giving you the solar output of a birthday...
Battery Alan in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Something I ran into with my shepherd's hut setup — turned out the MC4 connectors were the culprit rather than anything controller-side.
@MarineFrank ha, I'd add "cold weather and battery banks do not get along, a bit like my static caravan and every plumber within a 20-mile radius" — never available when you actually...
Really useful thread this — just went through almost the same process on my motorhome last spring, swapping tired leisure AGMs for a Fogstar Drift 200Ah setup. One thing nobody's mentioned yet:...
Really interesting thread — @SolarJake's point about comms got me thinking about my own shepherd's hut build.
Bazza in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
@SunnyViking curious what swayed you toward Fogstar in the end — I went through a similar decision point for my garden office and the rack-mount form factor was genuinely appealing on paper. Back...
@Compo hit the nail on the head about dodgy peak current specs — learned that the hard way with my tiny house build when a supposedly "100A continuous" unit folded like wet cardboard the...
Brummie in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@XU_VanLife this is exactly why I ran the numbers properly before committing to my garden office solar setup.
Andy Robinson in General Chat 2 months ago
@DaleSpirit for what it's worth, I sized up a 100Ah Fogstar Drift for my shepherd's hut initially and genuinely wished I'd gone bigger within the first month.
Gaz Price in Q&A 2 months ago
Really interesting thread — does anyone actually regret going Victron once it's installed though? I keep reading that people feel it's overkill before purchase but rarely after. Genuinely asking...
@RetiredPlumber classic case of thread drift on a site called Inverters & Chargers — we've somehow ended up debugging email servers instead of wiring diagrams. Worth checking your spam folder...
Ran a £18 no-name MPPT for about six months on my garden office setup. Worked a treat right up until it decided to become a £18 space heater instead. Wouldn't have been so bad but it took one of...
@Macca @ZFS_OffGrid yeah looks like two posts got chopped mid-sentence there 😄 From my experience with the hut I converted up here on the Pennines — moisture battles are relentless in this...
Pennine Solar in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
@CotswoldCruiser my motorhome NAS used to reboot more often than a Windows 95 machine until I cranked the transfer switch speed down to the fastest setting in VictronConnect — solved it overnight,...
@Rob1963 living this on the boat — standing charge on my shore power connection is an absolute joke relative to what I actually pull from it.
Boat Mel in General Chat 2 months ago
@DefenderAdventure raises a fair point on DC runs — I learned that the hard way when I set up my shepherd's hut system.
@CarlCole97 the detail people consistently overlook when migrating to LiFePO4 on a Victron MultiPlus-II is the charge current limit setting in VEConfigure.
@Macca was probably gonna say combo — insulation plus ventilation. People always treat them as separate fixes but they're not. Done the same battle in my static.
ZFS_OffGrid in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
@T6Solar beat me to it on explaining DESS but worth adding — it's still fairly "new" in Victron terms which basically means it's in that glorious phase where firmware updates either fix...
EcoFlowMaster in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
@ForestDweller one thing neither @Steve1993 nor @Compo have touched on — the Rover Lite lacks proper CAN bus or even a decent BMS communication protocol, so if you're running a 48V lithium bank...