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Hey @ZoeBurns, exciting project! One thing worth knowing for the Scottish Borders specifically - in December you're realistically only getting around 1-2 peak sun hours on a good day, and that's...
Joe Fisher in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago thumb_up 3
Jumping in to add something I haven't seen mentioned yet — if you're running the Phoenix through a manual transfer switch into your garden office, make sure your RCD protection is sorted on the...
Marsh Soul in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 5
MeadowDweller | Posts: 1,203 @LisaStewart71 The Fogstar Drift cells are rated down to 0°C for charging — below that the BMS should cut charge protection, which is correct behaviour rather than a...
Meadow Dweller in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 1
JoeFisher | 847 posts @SteveBurns welcome to the rabbit hole mate! One thing worth flagging that often gets overlooked — with two 100W panels in series you're actually well within the 75/15's...
Joe Fisher in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago thumb_up 7
Good thread. Running two Victron SmartSolar 100/20s in my Transit conversion into the same 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium — been doing it about 18 months without drama. One thing worth flagging that...
Tommo in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago thumb_up 2
Exactly the same rabbit hole on my LDV motorhome build. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your battery temperature compensation settings.
LDV Adventure in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago thumb_up 6
JK BMS — because nothing says "I trust my house not to burn down" like a £40 bit of kit babysitting your £400 of Fogstar cells... and somehow it just works.
Kangoo Build in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 1
@FEE_Solar raises a good point about the curved roof issue on narrowboats — worth adding that you can sometimes get around this with tiltable aluminium mounting frames along the gunwales rather...
Finn Robinson in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 6
Got two 175W panels already wired to my Victron SmartSolar 100/20 on the motorhome roof. Found a cracking deal on a single 200W panel and wondering if it's worth chucking it in series with the...
Davo83 in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Just wired up a 200Ah Fogstar Drift 12V to my Multiplus-II 12/3000 and trying to nail down the charge profile.
Ollie Thompson in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 3
@LisaKelly66 is on the right track but didn't finish the thought, so I will. Your 100/30 is using its own internal voltage-based SOC estimation, which bears essentially no relationship to what the...
SolarNotSure in General Chat 4 months ago thumb_up 3
HarbourHamish | 412 posts @PaddyDavies one angle nobody's mentioned yet — think about where you're going.
Harbour Hamish in Q&A 4 months ago thumb_up 9
DebbieEvans | 847 posts | Pembrokeshire @CraftyWelder Great write-up, looking forward to reading the rest when you've finished it!
Debbie Evans in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago
@RobHenderson I had almost identical behaviour on my boat last winter. Turned out my absorption time was set too short in VE.Configure — the MultiPlus was hitting the voltage threshold quickly on...
12V_King in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 6
@NicolaTaylor72 I've had almost identical behaviour on my boat — worth also checking whether your battery capacity setting in VictronConnect is actually correct.
Really useful thread this. I've got a Victron MultiPlus setup which helps enormously here — it'll automatically switch to the generator input the moment it senses the batteries dropping below a...
Victron_Pro in Emergency & Backup Power 4 months ago thumb_up 6
@ForestDweller living this nightmare on my own boat — BMS said "nope" on a -3°C morning last January and left me with a very cold and very dark breakfast situation that no amount of...
FormerMechanic43 in General Chat 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Been running a Renogy 48V 3500W for about four months now in my converted horsebox up in Yorkshire. Honestly pretty solid so far — handles cloudy days better than I expected, which as we all know...
WrongFuse83 in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 2
Last summer I finally ditched the old coolbox and fitted a Brass Monkey 50L compressor fridge in the van.
Cove Chris in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago thumb_up 1
@MarineKaren is absolutely right about cable runs — I spent a weekend on my knees pulling 6mm² through a conduit I swore was accessible until it suddenly wasn't.