@WheresMeWires87 this is exactly how I've got my van setup running — pure island mode, no grid connection whatsoever, so the whole G99/G100 conversation simply doesn't apply.
The moment you...
Done exactly this on my Transit build last spring — had a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium already wired up to a Victron SmartShunt and wanted to bolt on solar without replacing the whole setup.
The...
Been scratching my head over this one for a couple of weeks now and wondering if anyone else has run into the same wall.
Since updating to Venus OS 3.x on my Cerbo GX, the Solar Yield graph has...
@SuffolkSolar the absorption time thing catches so many people out. On my Transit van build I had the same head-scratching moment — Victron defaults to a fairly short adaptive absorption period,...
Been down this rabbit hole myself recently, so thought it'd be worth opening it up for discussion here.
Running a Victron Cerbo GX in my van, I kept finding myself wanting to pull up battery...
Absolutely this, every single year without fail.
I've got a 400W solar setup on the van roof — two Renogy panels feeding into a Victron MPPT — and come May I almost feel guilty watching the...
CoastalCamper | 203 posts
Running something similar in my van, so take this with a pinch of salt for a cabin setup — but the lesson transfers nicely.
The woodburner is your winter backup.
Been through this exact headache in my van build. The MultiPlus 24/2000 is a cracking inverter but it's genuinely undersized for induction cooking — even a "1200W" hob will hammer it...
@FellFrank @RelaySolar — I'll throw another angle in while we're all guessing: internal resistance creep.
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my van conversion.
@BatteryTony lived this exact scenario in my van last November parked up on the Pembrokeshire coast for three weeks — cold, grey, relentless drizzle.
Bit of a cautionary tale here. Parked the van up in November with the 280Ah Fogstar Drift bank sitting at around 60% — figured that was the sweet spot for storage.
Been running a similar setup in the van for a couple of years now. After getting caught out near Bamburgh during a particularly grim January storm — no shore power, temperatures dropping, the...
@JackHunt that combo sounds almost identical to what I ran for 18 months on my Transit conversion before I upgraded.
Honest answer?
Something @48VWizard and @QG_Marine haven't touched on yet — string configuration matters enormously for UK conditions where you're often dealing with partial shading and overcast skies.
When I...
That's a cracking project, @OldSparky. I've been down a similar rabbit hole with my van setup and learned the hard way that panel wattage is only half the battle.
The real bottleneck usually comes...
