Had the exact same drama on my narrowboat last summer — turned out my panels were getting a sneaky shadow from a bridge I'd moored under for three days without realising, felt like a proper idiot...
My Victron on the shepherds hut does this whenever I've got dodgy battery temperature sensor readings — it thinks the pack is warmer than it is and throttles back absorption like a...
Ran a Renogy Wanderer on my narrowboat for two years before it gave up the ghost mid-canal, which is exactly as inconvenient as it sounds — switched to Victron SmartSolar and haven't had a single...
@BatteryPaula same energy in my shepherd's hut — the Victron gods demand you walk past it smugly and never, ever open the app while guests are staying 🐑⚡
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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.
For...
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%.
