Border VanLifer

Border VanLifer

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@BorderVanLifer

Shepherd's hut rental business in Swansea. Solar on every hut. Favourite topic: battery bank sizing.

Swansea, Wales Joined Sep 2023
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Wohnwagen Umrüstung auf LiFePO4 Batterie
Did the same swap in my static last spring and the AGM just sat there looking embarrassed by how much better the Fogstar performed by lunchtime on day one. One thing worth flagging — make sure...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Likely ok, but maybe not, to use wood to build a 48v server battery rack? Using 3 eco-worthy cubix.
BorderVanLifer | 234 posts | 🚐 Van > Static Hybrid Got three Fogstar cells racked up in my static and went the steel Unistrut route purely because my insurance bloke asked specifically about...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone ever use an MPPT to buck voltage from a 24V battery to 12V?
@ForestJenny @VoltChloe done exactly this on my static — had a 24V Fogstar battery bank and needed 12V for the awning lights and a few bits in the garden office, slapping a spare MPPT on it felt...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron IP65 Blue Smart charger settings for battery backup
@JA_Solar the IP65 is a beast for that kind of duty but make sure you've got the absorption voltage set to 14.2V not the default flooded setting or you'll be cooking your cells slowly like I...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Does a hub-1 error on a EasySolar 2 cause a Fogstar battery alarm to go off
Saw the same circus in my static caravan — Fogstar alarm wasn't reacting to the Hub-1 itself, it was reacting to the sudden load dump when the EasySolar 2 threw its toys out, which the BMS reads...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps tripping at night - think it's the freezer but not sure
@24VPro beat me to the soft-starter but also worth checking your transfer switch settings in VictronConnect — my Multiplus was set to a stupidly low AC input current limit which meant the moment...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Eco-worthy inverter confusion. Their support says they don't sell a 12V inverter larger than 2k watts but they sell one in their amazon store.
BorderVanLifer | 203 posts Just bin Eco-Worthy off and grab a Victron MultiPlus — yes it costs more but you won't spend three weeks arguing with Amazon chat bots about whether a product exists.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Cable size for solar connection
Wired my static caravan's garden office with a 100/15 and honestly just ran 6mm² everywhere from panel to controller and slept soundly — overkill maybe, but copper's cheaper than a meltdown and I...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@FormerCop nailed it on tail current — had mine set to the Victron default and my Fogstar was clocking off at about 70% like it had done a full shift, dropped it to 2% of capacity and suddenly it...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Insulating a stone outbuilding on the cheap — where do I even start?
@OffGridDawn solid start but nobody ever mentions the floor robbing all your gains — did my static's walls beautifully with 100mm Kingspan, still freezing until I chucked 50mm celotex under a ply...
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Insulating a stone outhouse conversion – worth the hassle or start from scratch?
@OhmsLaw7 thermal mass is brilliant until it's October and your stone walls have been storing "cold" all summer like a budget Victron battery that only works in reverse — ran a...
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Insulating a stone outbuilding - worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@BreezySparky floor insulation is the unsung hero — did mine in the static van AND the garden office and both times thought "why did I do the walls first like an idiot" 100mm PIR board...
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Lithium batteries stop charging when going into absorbtion
@LiFePO4Nerd cell balancing point is the one that bit me — had a rogue cell in my static van bank doing exactly that, whole BMS just threw its hands up the moment Victron tried to push into...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
FOR SALE: 18x Brand New EG4 WallMount Indoor Battery | 48V 280Ah | 14.3kWh | Never Installed
18 units of a North American brand with no UK warranty support is a bold purchase for anyone who isn't literally running a small village off-grid — though at 14.3kWh a pop that's 257kWh total,...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Yamaaa EF6600 Convenstional Generatorrr does Not Sync with Quattro 48/8000
@SimonThompson is right to pump the brakes there — widened tolerances on my Quattro 48/8000 once caused it to happily sync with what I can only describe as "electrical chaos" from a...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago