Copper Maker

@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...

CopperMaker | 412 posts 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...

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.