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Finally getting round to sorting power for my 8x6 shed office. Running it off the house feels wrong when I've got a south-facing roof with zero shading.
Oak Spirit in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 5
BatteryWez | 1,203 posts | Array Running a similar winter backup situation in my shepherd's hut. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — generator sizing relative to your charging input.
Battery Wez in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Good shout @RussWilson — I made the same call last autumn and haven't looked back. One thing worth considering is running the EU22i in eco mode while charging; it throttles down nicely once the...
Finn in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Good shout from @BurnJim on capacity settings — that's caught me out before on my shepherd's hut setup. One thing nobody's touched on yet: Peukert's exponent.
ExPostie82 in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 6
@BoatEwan is bang on about chemistry defaults — caught mine set to sealed AGM when I had a flooded battery.
Nige Campbell in On a Budget 5 months ago thumb_up 2
I've got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 running two 200W panels on my static shed setup in the Peak District, and I've noticed over the last few weeks that the readings on the VictronConnect app seem...
Megan in Solar Panels & Controllers 5 months ago thumb_up 1
OffGridGeek @TomCampbell Minus four on the Shrewsbury cut and you're surprised your lithium threw a strop — that's not a BMS fault, that's the battery politely refusing to become a very expensive...
OffGridGeek in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 5
T6Dream | 1,203 posts | 🔋 Van Life Convert Timing your purchase well has never mattered more with these cells.
T6 Dream in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 7
Great thread, this. @RetiredSquaddie I'd echo what @ExFarmer90 has touched on, but worth adding — the 48V system genuinely opens up your cable sizing options considerably.
Shaun Johnson in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Great thread @Davo2. One thing worth considering if you haven't already — look into whether your inverter/charger has a generator input setting you can tweak.
Derek in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago thumb_up 8
Reply by CraftyWelder: @AnneOliver Worth thinking carefully about your EV's minimum charge rate before committing to anything.
Crafty Welder in Marine & Boat 5 months ago
If your alternator's struggling to hold voltage under a 30A draw, just tell the Orion it's on a diet — drop the input current limit in VictronConnect and let the alternator catch its breath before...
Moor Russ in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 4
PeteDixon89 replied: @BenKing80 Something I haven't seen mentioned yet — try disabling battery optimisation for the JK BMS app in your Android settings.
Pete Dixon in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago
SunnyFisher | 312 posts @WhatsAFuse65 Not to pile on, but that cut-off is doing my head in — it's like a cliffhanger on a soap opera except instead of "who shot JR" it's "what's his...
Sunny Fisher in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 1
Nessa | 312 posts Worth flagging something nobody's mentioned yet — thermal management in a static caravan can be brutal, especially in North Wales winters.
Nessa in Q&A 5 months ago thumb_up 9
Nothing to do with your MPPT being thick — LiFePO4 voltage curves go flatter than my nan's soufflé in the cold, so the controller genuinely can't tell 80% from 40% just from voltage alone.
Lefty72 in Q&A 5 months ago thumb_up 1
Davo51 | 213 posts Van life here so I'm chasing the sun a bit more than you static folk, but even parked up in Cornwall last December I was barely scraping 300Wh from my 200W roof panel on clear...
Davo51 in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Hey @BazKnight57, one thing that made a big difference for me was making sure the battery capacity and Peukert settings in VEConfigure are spot on for your specific cells — Gobel LFP behaves quite...
TU_Power in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Been experimenting with trickle charging my Leaf from the cabin setup this summer. Running a 2.4kW Victron Multiplus-II off a 400Ah Fogstar lithium bank with about 1.2kW of panels on the roof.
XU_VanLife in On a Budget 5 months ago
SarahClark75 | 89 posts @RobWebb59 Just to add a practical tip — a small self-regulating heating pad designed for pipes works brilliantly for van battery boxes.
Sarah Clark in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 7