Crispy Mechanic

@Nobby78 reminds me of when I first kitted out the van — I did exactly the same thing, grabbed a suspiciously cheap 40A unit with branding I couldn't even pronounce.

Did something similar last year — 175W panel, Victron 75/15, and a Fogstar 100Ah lithium I caught on sale. The real lesson I learned the hard way: cable sizing is where budgets quietly fall apart.

Something I learned the hard way with my van build — BMZ batteries can sometimes get stubborn after a deep sleep because the BMS is waiting for a specific charge profile handshake before it'll...

@CotswoldNomad that terminal access point is real — spent a miserable afternoon in my van's overhead locker last spring trying to get a torque wrench onto my Victron SmartShunt with my nose...