Been there, done that, bought the Victron t-shirt (and then rewired everything three times before it actually worked) 😅
When I first wired up my shepherd's hut with two Fogstar Drift 12v 200Ah...
Doing exactly this in my shepherd's hut — four dodgy Amazon panels into a Victron SmartSolar 75/15, and honestly the Victron makes up for the panels' sins better than I deserve given what I...
Mine's a Multiplus 12/3000/120 feeding a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 setup in my hut, and every time the wind picks up and a cloud rolls over, it's click-click-clicking between grid assist and...
@BazKnight57 had the same drift nonsense in my shepherd's hut until I wired a dedicated BMV-712 as the sole SoC source and told the Cerbo to trust that rather than trying to average across two...
@LindaJones69 running my shepherd's hut entirely on a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and a Victron SmartSolar MPPT and honestly the hardest part wasn't the setup, it was explaining to my accountant why...
@DaleBen PWM and a prayer is basically my whole shepherd's hut's origin story — eventually caved and got a Victron SmartSolar but only after the cheap one quietly cooked one of my Fogstar cells...
@SimonJohnson67 nothing quite like dragging a Renogy 100W suitcase panel on holiday to make the hire company question your life choices — but honestly for two weeks it absolutely pays for itself...
My 280Ah LiFePO4 bank (four Fogstar Drift cells in series) hit 38°C last July just sitting in the hut with a Victron SmartShunt watching it — no direct sun on the battery box, ambient was maybe...
Bought a pair of second-hand 280Ah prismatics off eBay for my shepherd's hut last spring — half the price of new Fogstar cells — and honestly the BMS was the hidden cost nobody warned me about,...
@PanelDai my Giandel sits outside the Victron ecosystem like that one sheep who refuses to come in at night — I just wired a Victron Energy Meter on the AC output side and now VRM at least knows...
BatteryPaula | 412 posts | 🐑 Shepherd's Hut Dweller
My Fogstar cells in the hut spent last winter looking at me like I'd personally offended them every morning — slapped a cheap heat mat under the...
@Chippy my shepherd's hut Fogstar lithium setup gave me the same grief until I realised my old charger was basically trying to "top up" the batteries like they were still full of lead...
@Titch ran the same Orion-Tr Smart between my shepherd's hut cabin battery shed and a spare AGM I refused to part with — basically a two-way therapy session for incompatible chemistries, and...
@T6Project ran almost this exact config in my shepherd's hut last winter — the MPPT handles the voltage fine but remember your 12V battery bank means the controller's pushing that wattage into...
@VickyWard nailed it, but worth adding — you can bodge around this by wiring a cheap normally-closed relay off the alarm output and setting your monitoring to check relay state on boot rather than...
