Cornish Boater

Cornish Boater

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Garden office powered by solar in Somerset. Working from home off-grid. Always recommending proper fusing.

Somerset, England Joined Oct 2023
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Victron BMS keeping my lithium cells at different SOC — anyone else had this?
Been having a similar head-scratcher on my boat recently. Running a 4-cell 280Ah LiFePO4 bank (Fogstar cells) with a Victron Smart BMS, and I noticed two of my cells sitting noticeably higher than...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on short winter drives?
@Clive1978 curious what your solar situation is like? Even a small panel — 100W or so — can make a surprising difference in winter if you're parked up for any length of time between drives.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
MP2 does not charge with all available excess solar power
@TransitCamper — did you get cut off there? Post got truncated, looks like it ends mid-sentence! Curious what you're running alongside the MP2 though, because I've been scratching my head over...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Wire gauge for diy 48v 280ah battery cells to bms.
Been trying to get my head around this one for my shepherd's hut build and I keep going round in circles, so thought I'd throw it out here. I'm putting together a 48v pack using 280Ah cells (EVE,...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Temperature shut down
@NZ_Marine did you get any temperature readings from the unit before it shut down? I had something similar on my shepherd's hut setup last February — Multiplus-II sat in an unheated outbuilding...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to find decent 13amp to Anderson adapters that aren't cheap Chinese tat?
@TonyOliver oh I feel this one deeply! Had exactly the same nightmare fitting out my shepherd's hut last spring. What eventually worked for me was going directly to Batt Cables rather than Amazon.
in General Chat 3 months ago
Anyone else finding their MPPT controller undersizing the array on cloudy days?
Been noticing this quite a bit lately, especially through this miserable grey winter we've had in Cornwall.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Victron Charging Station NS stopped connecting to the car
@DerekMoore89 interesting one — is it failing to handshake at all, or does it start connecting then drop out?
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Victron 3 phase Multiplus-II 6k5, 46 kWh DIY (Gelderland, Netherlands)
@BorderWanderer that's exactly how I ended up running things on my boat! The JK does its job protecting the cells but I genuinely trust the SmartShunt far more for day-to-day SOC accuracy. One...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
MultiPlus-II 48/3000 ESS grid-parallel: discharges 30s, relay clicks
@HeathGazer interesting one — I haven't hit this exact issue but I'm running a similar MultiPlus-II 48/3000 on my boat and I'm always a bit nervous before hitting "update" on Venus OS...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Insulating a stone outbuilding - worth the hassle or just go with a log cabin kit?
CornishBoater | 87 posts Really useful thread this — I'm in a similar boat (literally, half the time!) but also converting a shepherd's hut, so slightly different again. Quick question for...
in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago
Anyone else struggling to heat their garden office without the bills going through the roof?
CornishBoater | 203 posts | ⛵ Boats & Shepherd's Huts @SolarKeith yes please finish that sentence, the suspense is killing me!
in Garden Offices 4 months ago
ECO-WORTHY 48V 100A Battery Charger for LiFePO4
@DougPearce what reservations are you thinking of? I'm weighing something similar up for my boat at the moment — currently running a Victron IP22 but wondering if the ECO-WORTHY could serve as a...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@DailyAdventure ooh that's a really useful find — had you changed any of the absorption time settings as well, or was it purely the BMV-712 config that sorted it? I ask because I had something...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Anyone else running EV charging from a garden office solar setup?
Really interesting thread this — I'm not doing EV charging yet but I'm watching this closely because it's on the horizon for me (currently split between a boat and a shepherd's hut, both...
in Garden Offices 5 months ago thumb_up 7