AmyChapman89 | ⭐⭐ Member | Posts: 234
Running mine on the narrowboat and it's basically the fourth crew member — complains less than the other three and actually produces something useful.
Running a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30A between my Land Rover Defender and the shepherd's hut battery bank (3× Fogstar Drift 100Ah in parallel), and it's been genuinely brilliant for topping up...
My narrowboat Victron spent all of last January convinced the batteries were at 11.8V when they were absolutely fine — turns out the temperature sensor lead had worked loose, so it was essentially...
@MarshChild beat me to the EV bit but I'll add — running even a granny charger overnight absolutely demolished my assumptions about "small" battery banks on my shepherds hut build, ended...
If shading's your nemesis, a Tigo optimiser on each panel is like giving them individual counselling — my shepherds hut setup laughed off a massive oak tree once I fitted them, and the narrowboat...
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Fitting out my shepherds hut last year I nearly wept when I realised my Fogstar 100Ah weighed less than one of the AGMs it replaced — suddenly I had room for an actual kettle instead of a battery.
Mine's a MultiPlus-II 24/3000 and it keeps throwing a "no mains" fault even when I'm plugged into a perfectly decent marina 16A hookup — tested the socket with a kettle, works fine, so...
Converted my narrowboat into a floating shepherd's hut situation (long story) and now I'm trying to charge my Leaf from a Victron MultiPlus 2000 running off 400Ah of Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 — it...
@BatteryTim raises the real question — on my narrowboat I made the schoolboy error of pairing a cheap generator directly with a Victron MultiPlus and nearly had a very expensive bonfire.
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My shepherd's hut spent last December producing enough solar to charge one sad AA battery, but the little 400W wind turbine I bolted on kept the Victron humming through every grim grey fortnight —...
My Victron setup on the narrowboat has eaten more mid-sentences than a tunnel eats phone signal — starting to think the forum software runs on a 100Ah LiFePO4 that's been DVCC-limited to 3%.
Mine's been flawless on the narrowboat, though I'll admit the Bluetooth range is basically "stand next to it and squint at your phone hopefully." The app itself is solid when it actually...
