Had exactly this problem in my 4x6m cabin last winter. The smallest Morso I could find was still like having a small sun in the corner — thing would hit 28°C within twenty minutes and I'd be sat...
Had something similar crop up on my narrowboat setup last winter and it genuinely had me scratching my head for a good few days.
Running a Victron Phoenix 24V/3000VA and kept getting low battery...
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Had a similar head-scratcher when I was speccing out the narrowboat's system a couple of years back.
Made a similar switch on the narrowboat last autumn — swapped out the tired old AGM bank for a pair of Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 batteries wired in parallel, keeping my Victron MultiPlus-II...
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@BatteryJackie the thing nobody mentions until it's too late — Thursday evening is your killer.
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@Roger1983 that price is genuinely ridiculous — well done. I've been down a similar rabbit hole for my narrowboat build, though I went the Fogstar route in the end because I...
Been exactly where you are, @Ozzy8 — had the same series setup on my narrowboat before I switched to parallel wiring.
Lost power on the narrowboat last February — three days of grim grey skies, Renogy 200W panel pulling virtually nothing, and my Fogstar 100Ah LiFePO4 down to 8% before I'd even boiled the kettle.
Eight months is proper validation — I hit a similar crossroads with my narrowboat setup before eventually going full off-grid.
The thing nobody warns you about with garden offices specifically is...
What @Jonno said rings true from my narrowboat days. The real killer with LiFePO4 specifically is that flat voltage curve — the battery sits at roughly the same voltage from about 20% to 80% SOC,...
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@George1972 raises the exact question I'd want answered. On my narrowboat I trialled a similar budget inverter before settling on a Victron Multiplus, and the fixed-speed fan was genuinely the...
Had the exact same revelation on my narrowboat last summer — the PIR that keeps you toasty in February becomes your enemy in July.
What actually shifted things for me was a two-pronged attack on...
