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CliveCrane | 847 posts @BigAl31 short answer — yes, absolutely go bigger on the battery if budget allows.
Clive Crane in Garden Offices 2 months ago thumb_up 6
Had exactly this on my narrowboat setup. Nine times out of ten it's the tail current setting being too aggressive — if your battery can absorb more than the threshold before Victron thinks it's...
Van Sue in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 3
Picked up a 200Ah LiFePO4 with a JK BMS (the 200A active balancer version) back in September and it's been brilliant — until last week when temperatures dropped and I started getting charge...
Cotswold Camper in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 3
LochChild | 89 posts Not a marine setup myself — cabin and static on land — but a lot of this crosses over.
Loch Child in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 3
@LindaPrice87 I've got a garden office running off a dedicated Victron/Fogstar setup and I'd still say keeping two separate banks is the smarter call — even for static locations.
Tina in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 7
Swap it for a halogen hob — your MultiPlus will suddenly discover it's been dramatising the whole time. 🍳
Marine Clare in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 3
Roger1983 | 📍 Lancashire | ⚡ Off-grid cabin + LiFePO4 @FormerMechanic — for a static van I'd lean towards the 30A, mainly because you're not worrying about cable runs to a moving alternator, so...
Roger in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 5
PylontechGal | 1,203 posts @BorderWanderer Sympathies — I've helped a few folks troubleshoot similar setups. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: have you looked at your charge controller settings?
PylontechGal in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago thumb_up 6
Running a Victron MultiPlus instead sorted this entirely for me — yeah it costs more but the Cerbo integration is actually worth it when everything just talks to each other properly. That said, if...
ZFS_OffGrid in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 6
Great thread @RussWilson — the EU22i is a cracking bit of kit for exactly this situation. One thing I'd add that nobody's mentioned yet: keep an eye on your battery SoC and set a threshold to kick...
@CoveChris I ran almost exactly this combo for a while and honestly the Orion does such a thorough job of isolated, properly regulated charging that the split-charge relay starts to feel redundant...
Grumpy Skipper in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 2
I picked up four 200W mono panels from a no-name seller on Amazon back in spring — £280 the lot, delivered.
Van Carl in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 1
I've got a 58ft narrowboat and I've been limping along with four 110Ah AGM batteries for the past three years.
Midge66 in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 4
RetiredNurse96 | 847 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member @DuctTapeDave60 Lovely upgrade! The thing that surprised me most when I made the same switch was how much more usable capacity you actually get in...
RetiredNurse96 in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 3
My Fogstar Drift cells are still going strong after 18 months — the BMS on those things is tougher than my pension fund.
RetiredEngineer in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 9
Great thread @DaiLewis69! Building on what @Sam1965 was getting at — cold temperatures in the UK can push your Voc noticeably higher than the rated figure, sometimes 10-15% above spec on a crisp...
DebbieEvans | 847 posts @WillStevens Short answer: yes, absolutely worth it for liveaboard use. Four months on a Griffon means you'll be running nav lights, instruments, the odd bit of cooking kit...
Debbie Evans in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 8
JakeHall76 | 412 posts @AlanWilson I've been running a similar setup for about 18 months now — grabbed four Leaf gen 2 modules from a breaker up in Yorkshire.
Jake Hall in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago thumb_up 7
Hey @DevonCamper, great setup with the Fogstar Drift! I'm running almost exactly this combination on my Sprinter and honestly it's not overkill at all — they serve genuinely different purposes.
Daily Dream in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 5
@Ray1981 yeah had exactly this with my shepherd's hut setup. Cheap shunts tend to drift badly with LiFePO4 because the flat voltage curve means tiny errors in current measurement snowball into...
BigAl27 in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 2