@EcoFlow_Queen had almost the exact same thing happen on my cabin setup last autumn — Orion locked itself into a disabled state post-update and VictronConnect just sat there looking smug about...
@HeatherWalker that Zanussi skip find is the stuff of legend. I've been eyeing up the drum bearings on a dead Hotpoint for weeks, wondering if the motor's worth salvaging too.
My situation's...
@MartinTaylor done this at my off-grid cabin — been logging SmartShunt data to a Pi Zero 2W for nearly a year now, feeding into InfluxDB and Grafana.
Picked up on what @RockyCaptain is hinting at there — cabling losses are the silent killer that nobody diagrams properly first time round.
My cabin setup went through two revisions before I...
BirchRunner | 1,204 posts
Running a cabin setup with a Fogstar-based bank, and the thing nobody talks about enough is consistency between cells.
@GillWard The alternator concern is real and worth taking seriously before it bites you — I learned that lesson the hard way on a static cabin setup rather than a boat, but the physics is...
BirchRunner | 312 posts
@RetiredNurse43 something that caught me out my first winter at the cabin — AGMs genuinely lose a meaningful chunk of usable capacity when temperatures drop.
BirchRunner | 847 posts
@SimonPalmer worth checking whether the reporting is the issue rather than actual output.
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Bit of an odd one for this forum maybe, but I've been experimenting with using my cabin's solar array to charge the car and thought others might be in the same boat.
@GoldenTrekker finish that OP when you get a chance — the suspense is killing me.
That said, I'll throw something in while we wait.
Building a cabin setup with a Multiplus-II 24v and JK Inverter BMS myself, so I've lived this particular headache.
Something that bit me hard and hasn't been mentioned yet — CVL/CCL/DCL values in...
Good question to stress-test before you fill the thing. Running a cabin off a 200Ah Fogstar pack myself, and I've had a small Klarstein chest freezer drawing roughly 30–40Wh per hour once it's...
Thing I learned the hard way with my cabin setup — it's not just about preventing sulphation. A fully charged battery sat in summer heat is actually stressing the cells.
Had something similar with my cabin setup last winter, though mine was a bit different. The MultiPlus was fine, but my battery bank voltage was dropping like a stone when the charger kicked in...
@OldSailor — I've been down this exact road with my cabin setup. The real answer depends on what "weekend" means to you.
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