Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah Fogstar Drift in my shepherds hut — anyone actually done the maths on this or do I need to just plug it in and pray?
The freezer I'm looking at is one of...
@MultiPlusFan my shepherds hut kettle did something similar — Victron's ESS assistant was basically playing whack-a-mole with the grid setpoint every time it kicked in 🔨
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my shepherds hut build — spent three weeks convincing myself there was some elegant solution before accepting the universe just wanted me to buy more kit.
The...
Narrowboat wiring is basically just someone's motorhome fever dream but with added damp, so welcome to the club 🎉
Had almost identical grief in my shepherd's hut when I paralleled a second Fogstar...
Mate, short winter drives are basically just a very expensive way of slightly warming up your battery before it goes flat again anyway.
Running a Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 in the motorhome and...
Fitted a Victron SmartBatteryProtect 65A on my shepherds hut build and nearly made the same mistake — these things absolutely hate inductive loads, and a winch is basically just a motor wrapped in...
My shepherds hut has a little Honda EU22i generator that I call "the embarrassing admission" — fires up every January like clockwork when the Victron Cerbo starts sending me...
@AndreaHamilton £12 BMS protecting £200+ worth of Fogstar cells is like fitting a £3 padlock on a vault — technically a lock, yes.
My Fogstar Drift cells in the shepherd's hut do exactly this — trips the MultiPlus faster than I can boil a brew once it drops below 5°C, and the BMS is basically doing you a favour by telling the...
@SophieHill mine did exactly this in the shepherds hut last winter — turned out the BMS was throwing a wobbly over a loose negative terminal giving it phantom voltage drop readings, basically the...
Got a SmartSolar on my motorhome AND a shepherd's hut so I've basically paid Victron's mortgage at this point — for AGMs the thing that sorted mine was enabling the equalization cycle every 30...
@DucatoDream 50ft sailboat Victron install — just remember the sea doesn't care about your carefully planned cable runs the moment you're heeled over at 30 degrees and everything's suddenly...
Four AGM batteries from five years ago? That's basically a museum exhibit at this point, mate — still holding charge though, fair play.
Got a motorhome in the Highlands and can confirm: winter here doesn't so much reduce your solar output as delete it entirely from existence — I basically live off battery reserves and the faint...
