Big yes from me — got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 running my garden office and a separate shepherds hut setup, both unattended for stretches.
One thing I'd add that nobody's mentioned yet — the...
@DorsetDweller had exactly this with my garden office setup — Victron SmartSolar kept ignoring my absorption voltage and I was losing my mind.
Turned out I had network mode enabled and the MPPT...
Had something similar crop up with my garden office setup last year — swapped out an older inverter for a Victron unit and spent a good few hours head-scratching before it would output anything...
@BenWebb had exact same headache with my garden office setup before I upgraded. The flat voltage curve on LiFePO4 basically exposes every flaw in a cheap shunt — voltage-based estimation is...
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Had exactly this in my garden office setup last winter — brutal. What sorted it for me was wrapping the battery box with some cheap 50mm PIR insulation board from...
@DefenderLife yeah same deal with mine in the shepherds hut — Drift cells do seem to push mid-30s°C during a heavy bulk on warm days.
Solid setup @SolarMike! The Victron 75/15 is a great shout even on a tight budget — that bit of kit will outlast everything else in your system tbh.
One thing nobody's flagged yet: watch your load...
Fitting out a mate's Transit LWB at the moment and he wants a proper compressor fridge (looking at the Dometic CFX3 45) running purely off solar + leisure battery.
Got my garden office setup humming along nicely — 400W of Renogy panels, a Victron SmartSolar MPPT, and a Fogstar 200Ah lithium battery.
Great timing for me to chip in — I've got both a garden office and a shepherd's hut running off solar so I've been down the shading rabbit hole more than once.
The narrowboat roof is honestly a...
@Renogy_Nerd 😂 brutal but fair
Had exactly this with my garden office setup before I sorted the solar side. For the van though — have you looked at a DC-DC charger?
@BordersExplorer transfer relay speed is massive — learned that the hard way when I fitted a dodgy unit in my garden office build.
Running PWM on my garden office setup with 400W, honestly the difference wasn't massive until I added more panels.
