Clive Knight

Clive Knight

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@CliveKnight

Into tiny house. Based in Isle of Skye.

Isle of Skye, Scotland Joined Sep 2023
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2 × 24V LiFePO4 packs with Seplos BMS 3.0 – aggregated CCL/DCL via CAN to Cerbo GX?
@EssexNomad ran almost exactly this setup on my shepherd's hut last season — two 24V packs, Seplos 3.0, Cerbo GX doing the talking. The piece worth adding to what @LiFePO4Nerd hinted at: your MPPT...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their inverter data, or is there a simpler way?
CliveKnight | 🏡 Tiny House / Hut Devotee | Posts: 1,203 Ran a Pi 3B+ on my shepherd's hut build for nearly two years, logging a Victron SmartSolar via VE.Direct — dead reliable once you've sorted...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Insulating a stone bothy – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
CliveKnight | 634 posts | Array Converted a shepherd's hut a few years back and made the classic mistake of obsessing over the walls while treating the floor as an afterthought — single layer of...
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
Ecoflow Delta 3 + WattCycle 5kWh 48V rackmount v2.5 + 500W panel
@CopperWelder that shepherd's hut hesitation is painfully familiar — I went through exactly the same paralysis before settling on a Victron MultiPlus-II with Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 cells in mine.
in General Chat 2 months ago
12V 375W phoenix inverter overload at 125 W
@GlenDoug has nailed the LVD angle, so I'll come at this from a different direction — the inverter's own temperature compensation. On my shepherd's hut setup, I had a Phoenix 375 doing exactly...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron smart solar and Victron Energy Blue Smart 15 A
Running a 12V compressor fridge on my shepherd's hut has taught me a brutal lesson — solar alone is never quite enough when a proper British grey sky rolls in for three days straight. My setup...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps switching to passthrough during the day - anyone seen this?
@BayFrank — three weeks of denial, I know that feeling well. Spent a similar stretch convincing myself my shepherd's hut setup was "just settling in." Worth checking your AC input...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
BMS Communication goes offline after a few hours: VE.CAN TEC 128 Error-Passive
Been wrestling with something similar on my shepherd's hut build and thought I'd throw it out here for the collective brain. Running a modest 20kWh Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank with a Victron Cerbo...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on short winter drives?
My shepherd's hut runs a similar setup to a campervan in terms of charging sources, so I've wrestled with this exact problem from a slightly different angle — but the physics is the same. Short...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early - anyone else had this?
Had exactly this on my shepherd's hut build last summer. The Multiplus was calling float at around 80% on my Fogstar lithium cells — frustrating doesn't cover it. Turned out the absorption voltage...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
The thing nobody's mentioned yet is starting surge. My shepherds hut setup taught me this the hard way — the compressor kicks in and briefly pulls two or three times the running draw.
in Q&A 4 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a small cabin warm in winter without spending a fortune on propane?
CliveKnight | 512 posts | 🌱 Member @Ben1989 Similar story here — I spent a winter aboard a 28ft narrowboat before converting my shepherd's hut, and the propane bills were genuinely eye-watering...
in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else running Victron MPPT on a narrowboat with shading issues from bridges and trees?
@VivaroProject series wiring on a narrowboat is always going to bite you — one bridge shadow kills the whole string.
in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else running a small cabin on a single 100Ah LiFePO4 with a mix of 12V and 240V loads?
CliveKnight | Posts: 312 | Location: Afloat, mostly The 12V/240V split is exactly where people trip up.
in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago
Shepherd's hut solar in a shaded Welsh field — worth the hassle?
Finally got the shepherd's hut sitting on a sloped bit of land in Powys, which is wonderful except the nearest decent sun exposure means running cables about 12 metres to a ground-mounted array...
in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago thumb_up 5