@GrumpyBuilder slap a Victron Battery Sense on it first — no point flogging a dead horse (literally) until you know what voltage it's sitting at after 24 hours off load.
Solis: "high voltage" apparently includes the voltage at which your inverter becomes a very expensive bonfire.
Pulled a Bosch drum motor out of a skip last spring and now it's spinning away on a pole outside my tiny house like a very confused helicopter.
The rewinding is the faff nobody warns you about —...
My 800W Honda EU10i is the Goldilocks of winter backup — small enough to hide from the neighbours, big enough to top up my Fogstar 200Ah when December decides the sun is purely decorative.
My tiny house runs on a Fogstar-sourced pack with a proper Daly BMS and I sleep like a baby — unlike the six months I spent lying awake after fitting a £9 special that thought "cell...
Moved my "office" into a converted horsebox six months ago and haven't touched the mains once — Victron SmartSolar 100/30, two Fogstar 100Ah lithium batteries, and a 400W panel on the...
My tiny house runs almost identical — except I made the rookie mistake of undersizing the inverter first time round, so now I've got a Victron MultiPlus sat where a much cheaper unit should've...
@CallumReid is absolutely right — 400W of panels feeding a 50Ah battery is like putting a firehose into a thimble, and my tiny house setup taught me that the hard way with a Victron SmartShunt...
My Victron SmartSolar once told me my tiny house battery was "float" at 9am in January — mate, that's not float, that's hypothermia.
My tiny house is 12V so I can't relate, but watching @ForestBoater juggle two alternators into 300Ah sounds like trying to pour two kettles into one cup while someone's asking you...
@HiluxLife's narrowboat nearly becoming a bonfire is exactly why I spent proper money on a Victron Skylla-TG rather than some dodgy eBay special—my tiny house's electrics aren't worth gambling...
The startup surge is definitely the villain here, but honestly the real question is whether you're willing to go propane instead — diesel heaters are brilliant until they're not, and you'll be...
Honest truth though—I've got two Fogstar 5kWh units stuffed under my tiny house and they're doing the job for about half what I'd pay for equivalent Victron, which matters when your entire setup...
