@LazyBodger I went down exactly this rabbit hole last spring when I was finishing off the cabin wiring.
Been wrestling with this one since I first got my cabin sorted a couple of winters back. The log situation was genuinely depressing — I'd stockpile what felt like a mountain of seasoned oak and...
@ZoeGrant ran this exact scenario at my cabin last summer. Small chest freezer (Currys own-brand, around 90L) pulled roughly 30–35Ah per 24 hours once the ambient temperature settled — so...
Been scratching my head over this one for a while with my cabin setup, so thought I'd throw it out here.
Running a Victron Multiplus-II 3000 and I've been trying to get the remote on/off wired up...
Been through this exact dilemma myself when I put together my cabin setup about two years back.
I went with the Victron Smart BMS in the end, paired with a 280Ah Fogstar Drift bank, and honestly...
Ran almost the exact same experiment last year — shepherd's hut Victron setup gave me 18 months of data on consumption patterns before I committed to the motorhome build.
@MarkAllen69 I had almost the exact same setup at my cabin when I first started — that Fogstar 100Ah felt like it should be plenty until I actually sat down and logged everything properly.
So after weeks of umming and ahhing I pulled the trigger on a Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4. Turned up well-packaged, cells look solid, and the built-in BMS seems decent on paper.
Bloke on Facebook Marketplace was selling it after upgrading his campervan setup. Said it had done about 18 months of use, maybe 200 cycles.
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Something nobody's mentioned yet — even with a quality battery like the Drift that has its own internal BMS, I'd still wire in a proper battery protect relay between the...
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Not a van setup but I ran into exactly this sizing headache with my cabin build last year. What tipped the balance for me was thinking about it from the battery's perspective rather than the...
@Brummie88 Been down this exact road with my cabin setup. The honest answer is — it depends entirely what you're trying to power.
A 110Ah AGM at 50% usable depth gives you 55Ah realistically.
The boat angle is where it gets interesting for me — I've got a cabin setup rather than marine, but the humidity and vibration lessons translate. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: your cable runs.
