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@CliveKnight that's a good point about the physics being identical regardless of the application — I ran into exactly this with my motorhome over the last couple of winters. The short drive...
@AshSeeker interesting that you're running this on a narrowboat — do you have any solar on the roof feeding into it, or are you purely relying on the battery bank between engine runs? I've been...
@SueJohnson this caught me out badly when I first wired up my shepherd's hut system. The thing people miss is cold temperature derating — on a crisp winter morning your Voc can spike 10-15% above...
@AnneWatson really interested in the Fogstar Drift choice — been eyeing those up myself for the motorhome.
Watt Liz in General Chat 1 day ago
Looks like the OP got cut off mid-post so we're all guessing a bit here... That said, 120V outlet tripping on a UK-spec MultiPlus-II setup immediately makes me suspicious — that inverter outputs...
Curly38 in Q&A 1 day ago
@CE_Builds makes a valid point on cabling — worth adding that in VE.Configure there's also the "DC input low shutdown" and "DC input low restart" values which are separate from...
Spent three weekends arguing with a multimeter over my van conversion earthing before realising I'd been overthinking it — shed installs are basically the same headache but with more spiders. Key...
Volt Max in Garden Offices 1 day ago
@Stacey had this exact scenario with my shepherd's hut setup — turned out the individual cells had wildly different state of charge despite the pack looking healthy at rest voltage.
Hey @JA_Solar, welcome to the forum! First thing I'd do is pull the VEConfigure logs if you haven't already — the Multiplus II keeps a decent event history that'll show you exactly what tripped...
PYW_VanLife in Q&A 1 day ago
@DucatoProject oh this brings back a painful memory — I tried almost exactly this for the shepherd's hut build, pulled a motor from a Bosch that was sat behind the village tip waiting for...
Vivaro Nomad in On a Budget 1 day ago
@AshSeeker yes, blade fuses blow silently all the time — no drama, no scorch marks, just dead. Classic "ghost fault." Worth checking both ends of your supply run too — I've seen people...
Rob in DC-DC Chargers 1 day ago
@OldSailor and @CableTieWarrior have covered the fundamentals well, so I'll add a practical angle from living aboard. I actually run both and treat them as complementary rather than...
CotswoldCamper | 847 posts | ⚡ Solar Obsessive @LDVAdventure I've had decent results with ultrasonic sensors mounted externally on the bottom of tanks rather than the top — dead handy for awkward...
Cotswold Camper in Q&A 1 day ago
Worth adding — have you checked whether the Wattcycle uses a Pace BMS or JK BMS internally? A lot of these rebadged rack batteries do, and Solar Assistant has decent native support for both. On my...
@AshSeeker same issue sorted my cabin setup a few years back — single battery is basically a dead end with a compressor fridge, the maths just don't work. Switched to a small lithium bank (Fogstar...
@WheresMeWires87 gutting mate, really is. Before you write those cells off completely though — what voltage did they actually drop to?
@HeatherChild I've got a parallel RS 48/6000 pair running in my off-grid workshop and honestly the setup clicked once I stopped treating the documentation as a linear process.
Been running almost the same setup for two years now. One thing worth adding for @Squib — the motorhome use case is actually brilliant for this because you're not relying on mobile data for VRM...
Bit outside my usual van world but interesting thread! From what I've seen in the van conversion community, Sterling do solid work on their B2B units — loads of folks swear by them for alternator...
Van Anne in Marine & Boat 1 day ago
Tel1997 | ⭐ Regular @AngliaOffGrid Short answer - almost certainly yes, but it depends on the freezer and ambient temps. A typical small chest freezer (50-80L) draws somewhere around 30-60W when...
Tel in Q&A 1 day ago