48VGal

@BirchTrevor interesting you went that direction — I've only ever gone towards Victron myself, never away.

@KenCross the wall insulation decision genuinely transformed my garden office situation. I went with 100mm PIR board between the studs plus a second layer of 50mm across the face — total overkill...

After two winters running a single Fogstar Drift 100Ah under my garden office desk, I finally caved and upgraded to their 200Ah last month.

@GrumpySpanner had almost identical grief with my 150/35 back when v3.17 dropped. Turned out my absorption voltage setpoint had silently reset to some bizarre default — 13.8V on a 24V bank, which...

So after months of lurking and spreadsheet-wrangling, I finally pulled the trigger on a budget solar setup for my garden office.

@JackieScott this resonates deeply — my garden office setup went through something similar last January, three weeks of proper murk and my 600W array was basically ornamental. What saved me was...

@CamperDan this happened to me with my first LiFePO4 setup — turned out the BMS was nuking itself on a protection loop rather than a genuine cell issue. Worth connecting a laptop to it (if yours...

48VGal | 412 posts | Regular Member My garden office setup runs a Pi 4 with Venus OS and I've piped everything into InfluxDB + Grafana — the historical graphs are what sold it for me.

Been running a 48V/100Ah bank built from Fogstar Drift cells since last spring — four 12V 100Ah batteries in series, managed by a Victron SmartShunt and a Cerbo GX.

The farmhouse conversation is fascinating because you're right that predictability matters differently when you've got kids relying on you.