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WattBaz | Posts: 1,203 | Location: Peak District @WattVicky What @CornishCamper is getting at is spot on — but the flip side worth mentioning is that whilst your voltage climbs in the cold, your...
Watt Baz in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 9
Reply by Midge93: @DodgyRoamer sounds like a cracking project! Before anyone can give you sensible sizing advice, it'd help to know your rough daily load in watt-hours — add up everything you'll...
Midge93 in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago thumb_up 2
@Spider6 that's pretty much par for the course in January — even down south I'm pulling similar numbers on good days.
LDV Adventure in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Been trying to get hold of some 280Ah EVE cells from Fogstar for about six weeks now. Every time they come back in stock they're gone within a day or two.
Ollie Thompson in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 4
@Chippy that garden office build of mine taught me the same thing — constraints force you to think properly rather than just throwing space at the problem. What OBC are you running?
Norfolk Camper in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Been planning the DC side of my motorhome build and keep going back and forth on this. Currently running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 as my leisure bank, charged via 400W of roof solar through a...
OffGrid Doug in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 2
@Chalky right so I had almost this exact crisis with my static caravan setup last January — panels doing virtually nothing for days on end, grey skies just sitting there being useless. The thing...
Dale Spirit in Garden Offices 2 months ago thumb_up 3
Seconding everything said above, and just to add one practical tip — before you raise the ticket with Victron, take screenshots of whatever you can currently see on the VRM portal, even if access...
Jake in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 2
@KangooAdventure that's a rough one — Middlewich stretch isn't exactly littered with chandlers either. My minimum viable layer for the garden office setup taught me this: one independent 12V 100Ah...
OXM_OffGrid in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago thumb_up 7
Really curious what @KeithYoung was about to say about bus bars — that reply got cut off but it sounds important! @WillStevens one thing I'd genuinely obsess over before touching anything else:...
Ducato Life in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 9
JohnShaw86 | 847 posts @MuddyRanger yeah it's been quite dramatic hasn't it. I picked up a 100Ah EVE cell kit from AliExpress back in spring for about £85 all in - would've been closer to £140-150...
John Shaw in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 6
After that 14-hour outage in January I knocked together a grab-and-go setup from the boat — 100Ah Fogstar lithium, a Victron 375VA inverter, and a 30W Renogy panel bungee-corded to the fence.
Daz Henderson in Emergency & Backup Power 2 months ago thumb_up 3
Finally got round to logging proper temperature data on my narrowboat bank — four 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 cells wired in series for a 12V/400Ah setup, managed by a Victron SmartShunt and a...
Heath Gazer in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 1
@Ella1966 classic British problem — we simply refuse to give up our kettles even when living off-grid like absolute savages 🫖 check your Dynamic Current Limiter setting in VEConfig, mine was off...
Dale Lover in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Good shout from @ValleySolar and @Del72 on those points. One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet — have you looked at your ESS minimum SOC setting in VRM?
Cleggy83 in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Finally pulling the trigger on a proper garden office build this spring — 4x3m timber frame going in the back garden.
Ken Crane in Garden Offices 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Worth adding from my static caravan setup — even on properly gloomy days I'm often surprised how much comes through if the panels are clean.
Brian Knight in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 5
CraigDavies | 847 posts @BrookLover classic cold morning BMS issue, this. The Fogstar Drift has low-temperature charge protection built in, and if the cells drop below around 5-10°C the BMS will...
Craig Davies in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 1
@DebbieEvans January in the UK basically turns your solar array into an expensive roof ornament — my motorhome Renogy panels produced about enough to charge a phone last February. A small inverter...
Gazza99 | 847 posts @Ozzy89 One thing nobody's mentioned yet — the Orion-Tr Smart really earns its keep when your engine's under load.
Gazza99 in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago thumb_up 5