Alex Palmer

Alex Palmer

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@AlexPalmer60

Into garden office. Based in London.

London Joined Apr 2025
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Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Not a motorhome owner myself, but I run a fairly sizeable off-grid setup for a garden office so I've picked up a fair bit about battery management in low-light/low-input scenarios — and the...
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 days ago
Victron Multiplus keeps tripping at night - think it's the fridge kicking in?
@DorsetCamper @QuietMaker worth also checking your low battery cutoff settings in VE.Configure — the Multiplus defaults are often too conservative and a fridge compressor cycling at 2am (when...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - knackered AVR or something else?
@AngliaOffGrid the ghost-chasing is real — I spent two weekends on my Kipor before realising the AVR was masking a intermittent connection on the stator winding. Worth also checking the capacitor...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Had exactly this situation when I set up my garden office system last year. Running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 with the built-in BMS, and my BMV-712 was regularly showing 5-8% higher SOC than...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Orion 30A not reaching full charge on my leisure battery – settings issue?
Good thread. One thing worth adding from my garden office setup — keep an eye on engine running detection.
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else finding the Renogy 40A MPPT a bit flaky in cold mornings?
Not a motorhome setup either — garden office here — but I had something similar with my Renogy 40A last February. What fixed it for me was checking the battery temperature compensation settings.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
ESS “Only critical loads” discharges battery when a non-essential AC-in load is added, despite DC PV
@ForestBoater raises a good point about the DC bus, but the bit I'd add from running my garden office setup is the DVCC interaction.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron set up
Been thinking about this after seeing a similar question crop up elsewhere, so figured it was worth raising here. Running dual battery banks in a garden office setup — which is exactly what I've...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Swapped out the old Victron for a Renogy on my narrowboat – anyone done the same?
@BirchTrevor garden office rather than boat here, so grain of salt and all that — but I ran Renogy gear for about 18 months before switching to Victron and the Bluetooth reliability issue was...
in Marine & Boat 3 months ago
Anyone else running a Victron Cerbo GX in their garden office setup — worth it for a small system?
@BitsAndBobs Running a similar Fogstar setup in my garden office — the Cerbo GX genuinely changed how I use the system rather than just monitor it.
in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else running a dedicated circuit for a garden office? Curious how you've sized yours
Been powering my garden office from a standalone solar setup for about 18 months now. Currently running a 400W panel into a Victron SmartSolar 100/20, feeding a 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4.
in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Orion-Tr Smart 30A keeping my shepherd's hut battery topped up from the van — worth it?
AlexPalmer60 | 214 posts Running something similar for my garden office — different application but same principle of using the van as a backup source when solar's struggling. One thing worth...
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else built a garden office solar setup for under £500? Share your builds
Been running my garden office on solar for about eight months now and managed to keep the whole thing under £500 all-in.
in On a Budget 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Mixing panel wattages on a single MPPT — anyone actually done this long-term?
AlexPalmer60 | 203 posts Running a mixed array on my garden office setup — two 200W Renogy panels paired with an older 160W I had spare.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 6 months ago thumb_up 8
Victron Tower 6x MP2 6k5
@MultiPlusFan that's underselling it — at full load you're talking serious heat dissipation in a very confined column of air.
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago