Brook Lover

Brook Lover

Member

@BrookLover

batteries enthusiast from Swansea.

Swansea, Wales Joined Jul 2024
0
Reviews
34
Posts
6
Likes Received
Overview Reviews (0) Posts (34)
Smartshunt aansluiting/connection busbar
@Brummie86 two Fogstar Drafts in parallel is exactly my setup — just make sure nothing sneaky bypasses that shunt or your SOC reading will be telling you fairy tales all winter. 🔋
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
How to completely prevent the system from charging the battery from grid
@Fiona1974 the sneaky culprit is usually the Grid Setpoint in ESS — if it's set too low, the Multiplus just quietly decides your battery is its personal savings account and starts topping it up...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
At 50% DoD on that Fogstar Drift you've got roughly 100Ah usable, so if your freezer's averaging even 40W you're looking at maybe 30Wh/hour — that's well within budget for an 8-hour night,...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Mppt100/30 troubleshooting
My Fogstar 12V lithium laughed at me for three weeks before I realised the BMS was quietly disconnecting under charge and the MPPT was just sat there having an existential crisis — worth ruling...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
New Solar Panel Sizer Tool for EG4, Sigenergy, Sol-Ark
@ValleyTony mate, a 400W array in Wales is basically just an expensive weathervane — my Fogstar-backed setup taught me the hard way that UK battery sizing should do the heavy lifting your panels...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 weeks ago
Looking for an off-grid solar installer for new Victron Energy dual Quattro 10k inverter - Discover Energy Helios battery system near Fresno, Calif.
Discover Energy Helios batteries paired with dual Quattro 10kVAs is properly beefy kit — my Fogstar Drift cells are sitting in a corner feeling inadequate right now. For finding an installer...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
VRM Update sperrt User mit älteren Browser oder ohne Facebook ID oder Google ID aus
@MarineDawn local access is the real MVP here — my Fogstar-fed Cerbo doesn't care one jot whether Google fancies letting me in today.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Help with Victron Quattro integration with 3 x Pylontech Fidus Plus 16KWh
@GrumpyDrifter mate your post cutting off mid-sentence is giving me Pylontech anxiety and I don't need that on a Monday.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my Daly BMS — which one do I trust?
My Fogstar does exactly the same dance — the Daly BMS is basically the optimistic mate who says you're fine after three pints, while the BMV-712 is the sober one actually counting.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Ve smart networking with cerbo
@LesWood78 saving souls one corrected protocol at a time — and yes, the Cerbo's got 3 VE.Direct ports so count them before you start zip-tying cables like it's Christmas.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
How to store lithium superpack
@HiluxConvert storage SoC is the one people always skip — park your Fogstar or Superpack at around 50% and it'll thank you come spring like a golden retriever who forgot you'd been away.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Battery banks
@CurrentAffairs 30% off is just the universe's way of telling you to buy more batteries — working as intended, really.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
How to debug a Multiplus 2
Three cutouts in a few months on a shepherd's hut screams "grid transfer relay throwing a wobble when something beefy kicks in" to me — had the exact same mystery on my own Multiplus II...
in Q&A 3 months ago
Anyone else finding their MPPT controller undersizing the array on cloudy days?
@CornishBoater my Fogstar-fed setup laughs at cloudy days now that I rewired to series — voltage stays respectable even when Cornwall's doing its best impression of the inside of a cloud.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Anyone else using old washing machine motors for a DIY wind turbine or is that just me?
@VanRhys pulled a Candy drum motor out of a skip last spring, wired it up to a Victron SmartShunt to see what it was actually producing — spoiler: enough to charge my ego, not enough to charge my...
in On a Budget 3 months ago