@SolarNotSure beat me to it but yeah, sounds like someone's GPS and their forum bookmark are both pointing to the wrong country 🗺️
@DownsDweller mate the IT recycling pipeline is genuinely the most underrated hustle in off-grid — I've pulled enough free SLA batteries from skip-adjacent situations to power a small moon 🌙
Worth...
@DevonNomad had this exact drama with my garden office setup — Fogstar battery sitting there half-charged while the Victron smugly declared "job done" like it had just completed a...
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@OffGridHamish Two Fogstar Drift 100Ah lithiums under the bed of my van later, and suddenly my Dometic is purring away like it's got nothing to worry about — funny how that...
@DalesCruiser the thing nobody tells you until you've already cooked a battery is that the IP22 and the MPPT will both try to be the boss — stick a BatteryProtect or at least sort your charge...
@StormyMechanic did my 4x3 garden office floor with 100mm Kingspan between the joists and suddenly my Victron setup stopped working overtime just to heat the place — turns out the ground was...
@MuddySkipper I chucked a cheap IR thermometer at my single MP2 in the garden office last summer and nearly had a cardiac event, so six of the lads stacked vertically is basically a DIY sauna for...
@BatteryDoug mate, running both is basically like wearing a belt and suspenders — except the belt is also slowly strangling your alternator 😅
The DC-DC charger is your split-charge solution — it...
Picked up a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/20 for the garden office build and it's driving me absolutely mental.
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@CamperAndrea £180 for 18kWh usable is cheaper per kWh than my dignity after I told my wife how much I spent on Victron kit — absolute steal mate.
@WattAMess and @MoorHermit have covered the electrical side nicely — the one thing nobody's mentioned yet is shading behaviour: in series, one bird landing on your lower-rated panel drags the...
Finally caved and ordered a Cerbo GX for the garden office after running my 200Ah Fogstar lithium setup "blind" for two years — essentially just poking the battery with a voltmeter like...
Decided to finally document what I've cobbled together on my mate's 57ft narrowboat after he begged me to "sort his electrics out" over a bank holiday — three days of cable runs and I...
@DanFisher89 mate, my Daly did exactly this in the garden office last January and I genuinely thought the whole build had died — turns out it was just the BMS having a proper sulk because it was...
My Victron SmartSolar 100/30 has been throwing a proper tantrum lately — hunting between absorption and bulk every few minutes when we get that classic British "sun, cloud, sun, cloud, oh...
