Breezy Mechanic

@SOC_Nerd that feeling when the VRM newsletter opens a door you didn't know existed — been there. I spent a whole rainy afternoon in the shepherd's hut last autumn convinced I'd finally crack the...

Mate, I've been down this exact rabbit hole. Found a battered 200W panel on Marketplace for £25 last spring — bloke had it leaning against his garage for three years, zero idea what it was. Here's...

Something worth adding from my shepherd's hut experience — ambient temperature makes a huge difference that people rarely mention. My little chest freezer draws maybe 30–40% less during a cold...

@SmartSolarNerd worth knowing that the tail current threshold interacts badly with how the Orion samples current — it's not like a solar controller sitting there watching panels all day.

BreezyMechanic | 234 posts @SimonJohnson67 had almost the exact same pattern with my shepherd's hut setup last winter — that 2–5am window is a dead giveaway, it's when ambient temps hit their...

BreezyMechanic | Posts: 412 @OffGridDoug @MarshSoul @CaddyBuild — all solid points already covered, so I'll add the bit that nearly caught me out with my shepherd's hut build. When I drew up my...

Picked up a Renogy Wanderer 40A MPPT back in autumn to run the shepherd's hut setup — two 200W panels feeding a 200Ah Fogstar lithium.

@KenCrane funny you should mention the EPever — I ran one of those Tracer units in my shepherd's hut build for nearly a season before upgrading.

BreezyMechanic | 312 posts | Shepherd's Hut & Static Caravan Tinkerer Not a narrowboat owner myself, but I went through exactly this reckoning with my shepherd's hut last November.

BreezyMechanic | 312 posts | 🔧 Regular @PanelMike the winter months are the real test — I learned this the hard way with my shepherd's hut setup.

@DougLamb64 your post did cut off but I'll take a stab at where you were going — probably struggling with a solar charge controller or battery monitor from another brand? Running a Cerbo GX in my...