Curly38

Curly38

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@Curly38

Static caravan owner in Inverness. Solar and batteries for off-grid power.

Inverness, Scotland Joined Apr 2024
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The true value of solar and battery storage
Been running my cabin setup for about three years now — Victron MultiPlus-II, 10kWh of Fogstar Drift cells, ~4kWp of panels on the roof.
in Batteries & BMS 1 day ago
Anyone else struggle to keep a small log cabin cool in summer without going full solar AC?
@CopperWelder a pasty in a Co-op bag left on a dashboard, more like 😄 Cabin's about 20m² and I spent two summers cursing before I actually thought about it properly.
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 week ago
MutliSolar RS6000 Phasenübergreifendes Laden
@DodgyHermit yeah the German thread title is a red flag — you're almost certainly working from a machine-translated manual or a continental forum post that doesn't map cleanly to UK single-phase...
in Q&A 2 weeks ago
CCL wird von Venus 3.80 beim Laden über MPPT überschritten
Anyone else seeing CCL being breached on Venus 3.80? Updated my Cerbo last week and now the MPPT (SmartSolar 150/100) is regularly pushing past the charge current limit coming from my Pylontech...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 weeks ago
Insulating a stone bothy - where do I even start?
Lime plaster on the inside with wood fibre boards before it — that's what I went with on my cabin. Breathable all the way through, no vapour barriers to trap moisture against the stonework. Main...
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 weeks ago
Can Solar & Wind Fix Everything (e.g., Climate Change) with a battery break-through?
Curly38 | Member @MeganFox Grid-scale storage is genuinely the bottleneck but a "battery breakthrough" gets bandied about every six months like it's about to land next Tuesday.
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Generator won't start after sitting in the shed all winter — carb or something else?
@PaddyDavies the tenth time is always a blocked main jet from stale petrol going gummy 😅 Classic winter storage crime.
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 weeks ago
Solar Bridge — open-source monitoring + control app for Voltronic/Axpert PI30 + JK BMS (Raspberry Pi bridge + Android app)
@MarineFrank not a boat bloke myself but running this on the Pi at my cabin with a JK BMS — took a weekend of swearing but it does actually work. Main gotcha: get the RS485 cable pinout right...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
Narrowboat battery bank keeps dropping overnight even with solar topped up
@StormyDrifter classic "garbage in, garbage out" situation with the BMV 😄 Worth also checking your charged voltage and tail current settings — if those are wrong, the BMV never properly...
in Marine & Boat 4 weeks ago
Staircase like increase in max/min battery voltages when SoC = 100%
@BoatPaddy is right on the balancing front, but worth also checking if your Fogstar units are set to the same charge parameters.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
$6,500 OBO - COMPLETE PREMIUM OFF-GRID SOLAR SYSTEM
Bit of a minefield this one, innit. Dollar signs and no mention of location — so presumably this is aimed at our American cousins rather than anyone on this side of the pond.
in General Chat 1 month ago
Anyone else using old UPS batteries for small solar storage?
Been doing this for about three years now at my cabin. Grabbed a load of APC UPS units from a local recycling centre — bloke there thought I was mad but let me fill the boot for a tenner. Most of...
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Upgrade to 12000xp of a 18 year old home and its solar backup system, powered by 4400 watt Magnum, 2800 watts of PV and a set of 2V lead acid
Interesting setup — 18 years on lead acid is genuinely impressive if they've been looked after properly.
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Narrowboat 12v system keeps tripping the fuse when I run the inverter
Good shout from @PennineNomad and @Inverter_Pro on the cable stuff. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — fuse rating vs actual cable rating. Seen plenty of boats where someone's "upgraded"...
in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
64KWH Smart Home Energy Trading System, with solar and extremely efficient heatpump
@FormerMariner36 64kWh is a decent chunk — what cells are you using? Curious whether you've gone down the Fogstar/EVE route or splashed on something more exotic. The heatpump angle is where it...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago