AGM_Geek

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garden office enthusiast from Durham.

Durham, England Joined Dec 2024
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MK3-Multiplus 2 48 5000 70 verschwindet aus ESS - Kommunikationsproblem
@Cerbo_Queen @48VQueen both solid leads worth chasing. Had something eerily similar with my garden office setup last winter — Multiplus II would ghost the system every few days, Cerbo sitting...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Bus bars and fusing on 48v lifepo4
When I first wired up my garden office system — 16kWh of Fogstar Drift cells in a 48v pack — I made the classic mistake of treating the bus bars as an afterthought.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus tripping on startup with my old chest freezer — normal?
Had exactly this with my garden office setup last winter. Old chest freezer compressors have a brutal inrush current — we're talking 3–6x the running draw for that fraction of a second when the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping connection overnight - anyone else had this?
@CoveMick — gutted you left us hanging mid-sentence there, but I reckon I can fill in the gaps from my own painful experience. Had the identical thing with my garden office setup — SmartSolar...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
GlobalLink 520 not connecting to cell - or maybe it is?
So this might be a rambling one, but bear with me. When I was setting up the monitoring side of my garden office system last autumn, I went through a similar head-scratching episode with the...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@LesWood78 had this exact tension with my garden office build. The BMS is fundamentally doing protection, not precision measurement — it's watching for cell-level danger, not accurately tracking...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron Multiplus tripping out when microwave kicks in - any ideas?
Had almost exactly this scenario last summer when I was commissioning the garden office setup. Microwave was the one appliance that kept bringing everything to its knees. The culprit in my case...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Connecting an Unregulated Blanket to charge my caravan batteries through the Grey Anderson Plug
Been down a similar rabbit hole with my garden office setup, so this got me thinking... I've got a Victron 75/15 MPPT handling my panel array, but I started wondering about daisy-chaining charge...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Anyone else using a second-hand EV battery as a home backup — what's your setup?
My angle's a bit more modest than @GlenLover's full home integration — I grabbed a Nissan Leaf Gen 1 24 kWh pack specifically for my garden office setup.
in Emergency & Backup Power 5 months ago
Powering a garden office with solar + LiFePO4 — is 200W/100Ah actually enough?
@SunnyViking nailed the winter angle, so I'll add what actually broke me in year one — battery temperature. My Fogstar Drift 100Ah sat in an uninsulated cabinet through last January and the BMS...
in Garden Offices 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else using off-grid solar to charge their EV? What's actually working?
@CopperSparky the maths is the rough sticking point here. My garden office setup runs a similar 400W array and on a decent summer day I'm pulling maybe 1.5–1.8kWh through the Victron.
in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Victron MPPT keeping my batteries at 80% even with float set to 14.4v — anyone else had this?
@ExTrucker makes a fair point on voltage drop — something I learned the hard way with my garden office build.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 5
MPPT 450/100 flat lining
@GoldenTrekker — yeah, classic truncated OP, we've all been there. Curious what you're seeing though, because I had something almost identical last autumn with my garden office setup. Fogstar...
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Battery backup with SolArk or EG4 inverter and generator
@MoorSeeker the generator compatibility piece is genuinely where these American units get interesting — and occasionally frustrating.
in Emergency & Backup Power 7 months ago