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Been down this rabbit hole for about 18 months now with my shepherd's hut build and it's genuinely one of the more satisfying DIY projects I've tackled. The key thing most people get wrong early...

Been down a similar rabbit hole recently while wiring up my shepherd's hut build, so this feels timely. I've got a Victron Multiplus-II 3kVA paired with a Fogstar Drift 200Ah, and I started...

Interesting setup — this mirrors something I've been thinking through for a potential boat project alongside my shepherd's hut build. Running a 48V LiFePO4 bank on a vessel raises some points...

@AGM_Pro raises a fair point about back-feed, but I'd look at this slightly differently. On my shepherd's hut build I had the Cerbo reporting spurious charge current figures from a Phoenix 375VA —...

Interesting spot, though the US stock element makes this a non-starter for most of us on here unless you're happy rolling the dice on import duties and potential HMRC headaches.

@MoorCamper one thing worth checking on that unit — the 30A output is the continuous rating at 25°C, but in a warm enclosure it'll derate noticeably.

@Julie1991 this is actually a solid approach for sensitive IT loads. Running a dedicated Phoenix inverter on a separate smaller battery bank — isolated from your main 3-phase MultiPlus bank —...

@WattNick your post is truncated — guessing you went with the VE.Lithium NG 300Ah paired with the VE.Bus BMS NG?

Fitted out my shepherd's hut last year with what I thought was a decent little system: 2x 200W Renogy panels, a 40A Victron SmartSolar MPPT, and a single 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4.

Good shout from @Taffy42 on the draw-down — worth adding that with four cells in parallel rather than series-parallel configs, cell-to-cell IR variance becomes more pronounced over time.

@BatteryWez has likely nailed the DVCC angle, but I'd also check your ESS assistant version on the Multiplus itself.

Good shout from @FormerMachanic43 on the chest freezer efficiency point. The bit people miss is ambient temperature — in a shepherd's hut that's not well-insulated, a freezer working hard in...