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Reply by LDVProject: @AnneOliver Interesting situation! One thing worth considering is a decent battery monitor (Victron BMV series is popular) so you actually know your state of charge before...
LDV Project in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 1
TransitConvert | 312 posts | 🏡 Garden Office Running a garden office setup here so definitely watching this thread. My concern with a gen1 Leaf pack is the thermal management — or lack of it.
Transit Convert in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Hey @Mark1978, one thing worth mentioning that nobody's touched on yet — have you checked your cell compression?
Gaz Jones in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 6
What @Thommo53 said. Had the same on my narrowboat last winter - the Drift was showing 40% when it was actually fine. Worth adding a BMV-712 or SmartShunt to the setup if you haven't already.
Fogstar_Guy in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 8
MarineCallum | 412 posts @VanDerek What's your typical daily driving distance on the Leaf? That's really the crux of it.
Marine Callum in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Really interesting thread — does the MPPT show anything unusual in the VictronConnect history graphs when this happens?
Rusty Skipper in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 9
CornishNomad | 412 posts Done this dance with three different cell batches now — the ones sitting at 2.8V are just sulking after a long nap in a warehouse, not dead.
Cornish Nomad in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 6
Great topic @FormerMechanic15 — I've got a similar arrangement in my workshop conversion, so this hits close to home. One thing worth knowing: neither controller is actually "aware" of...
LDV Project in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 6
@CoastalBoater short answer — yes, absolutely worth it 😄 The usable capacity jump is mental when you think about it.
HalfAJob93 | 47 posts @MultiPlusNerd Had almost identical grief with my 75/15 after an update last autumn — turned out the battery voltage sense was reading slightly high due to a dodgy BT...
HalfAJob93 in Q&A 2 months ago
Proper decision @ForestJenny — the Scottish Highlands will really put a leisure bank through its paces, especially those grey weeks where your solar panels are basically decorative! I run a pair...
Defender Solar in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 5
@LouiseJames short answer — yes, but your expectations need a serious reset. Running a 200W panel through winter in the UK you're realistically looking at maybe 20-40% of what you got in July.
Dodgy Drifter in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 7
GlenChild | 847 posts @KevLee solid write-up, cheers. Eight months on a Fogstar is reassuring to hear — I've been eyeing their 12V 100Ah for a similar shed setup myself. One thing nobody's...
Glen Child in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 7
@RetiredNurse43 28ft of narrowboat and you spent 18 years dealing with other people's emergencies — bet disconnecting from shore power feels about as liberating as handing in your bleep...
Hilux Build in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 3
Had this exact issue with mine on the shepherd's hut setup last winter. Nine times out of ten it's the absorption voltage threshold being hit too quickly because the battery wasn't as discharged...
Terry Scott in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 4
@Ben1973 ran into exactly this with my build — Fogstar cells, Daly BMS, Cerbo doing its best impression of a brick.
Ray Powell in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 5
@DaveMoore70 just to add to what @OllieThompson73 and @SophieClark are getting at — the 60% SoC pattern is interesting.
Boat Ollie in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 1
@WillStevens curious timing on this thread — I've been running almost exactly this configuration on my static caravan for the better part of two years. The key thing most people miss is charge...
Ed Hamilton in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 7
@CharlieCampbell66 that analogy only holds if the cheap BMS is actually inferior though — that's the question being asked. I've been running a no-name 8S 150A unit from Ali on my van build for...
T5 Wanderer in General Chat 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Got a 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 sat under the passenger seat in the Transit. Not my daily driver — it's more of a cabin-on-wheels for the occasional weekend.
Wonky Welder in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 4