@OldSailor nailed it, but I'd also love a "don't bother if solar's already winning" condition — my Fogstar cells in the static don't need the grid kicking in at 6am just because I might...
My static van's meter was basically a one-way ratchet — only ever went up, never down, regardless of what I did or didn't plug in.
@SimonKelly that's the real kicker isn't it — my Fogstar Drift cells almost never hit absorption long enough to trigger a proper sync, so my BMV-712 just drifts off into fantasy land like it's...
Slapped a Pi 3B+ in the static van two summers ago — it's basically become the nosiest lodger I've ever had, silently judging every watt my Fogstar battery breathes in or out.
My static van's basically a glorified crisp packet so I feel this pain on a cellular level.
Biggest bang-for-buck I found was attacking the air leakage before touching insulation proper —...
Running a Pi 4 in my static caravan hooked up to a Cerbo GX via MQTT — honestly the best thing I've done since fitting the Fogstar batteries, the data nerd in me is finally satisfied.
Got Node-RED...
@SunnyNomad valid point — I've got mine on a static caravan not a van so I'm hardly the target demographic here, but even I maxed out the 15A output faster than expected when I chucked a second...
@FellGraham "Sunday-best voltage" is brilliant but my static caravan cells are more like Monday morning before coffee voltage — technically alive, deeply unimpressive under any actual...
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My static van's Fogstar spent last January doing its best impression of a stroppy teenager — wrap the battery in a bit of closed-cell foam insulation and suddenly it...
@FormerTeacher61 North Yorkshire grid doing its usual impression of a chocolate teapot — my static caravan Victron MultiPlus-II 3000 laughs in the face of Yorkshire Power's "creative"...
The Cerbo's a gateway drug — you'll end up daisy-chaining half the Victron catalogue to it before Christmas, mate.
Mate, I'm running a measly 4kW into my static caravan and still can't charge an EV without my Victron having an existential crisis—yours will absolutely lose its mind at 8kW trying to push that...
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Mate, 600Ah of Fogstar is the dream—I've got half that in my caravan and it's still life-changing compared to flogging lead-acid around a site.
Mate, solar heating is like asking a torch to heat a conservatory in January—technically it's light, but that's about it.
