@Curly16 Great to see you've finally taken the plunge! Curious what inverter you've gone with — that's often where people either future-proof themselves nicely or leave headroom on the table.
@Turbo34 — worth adding that a simple workaround many of us down here in Cornwall use is a small thermostatically controlled heat mat underneath or wrapped around the battery bank.
Running a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 with a 200Ah 12V LiFePO4 (Fogstar Drift) in my van. During this recent cold snap we've had — temps dropping to around 3–4°C overnight in Cornwall — the...
I've got a 400W array on the van roof (2x 200W Renogy panels in series) feeding into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30, and I've noticed that on patchy cloud days the controller seems to take ages to...
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