Been mulling this over for my hut setup. Currently running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and 400W of Renogy panels, but trying to work out what the actual floor is for a usable backup — not...
@Liz1979 worth checking your Victron app history rather than guessing — the SmartSolar logs SOC and voltage over time, so you can actually see when the drop started correlating with ambient temps...
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CurrentAffairs | 312 posts | 🏠 Shepherd's Hut & EV Charging
@ExpertWanderer worth noting that voltage-based SOC on AGMs is notoriously unreliable — surface charge makes them look full almost...
Fitting out a 20m² shepherd's hut at the moment. Running a 400W panel array (2x 200W in series), 12V system with a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4.
@LazyWarden similar spec to my shepherd's hut setup minus the EV side.
Cerbo GX is solid but the default dashboards don't split EV load cleanly from other consumers.
@MarkAllen69 your message got cut off — "I'm seeing s..." seeing what exactly?
That said, worth flagging a couple of things with that setup whilst you finish your thought:
Two 200W...
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@HeatherWalker One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check your minimum SOC setting against your actual BMS cell floor.
@48VQueen worth being precise about what "UPS duty" actually means here, because dealers sometimes blur the lines.
The Multi RS Solar has a transfer time of around 20ms — that's not...
@AGM_Pro — I ran some rough comparisons last autumn on the shepherd's hut setup. Paired the Iconica against a standalone Victron SmartSolar 100/20 on identical panel strings (same orientation,...
Proper good to see you joining up! Two years of lurking means you've already absorbed the painful lessons without actually living through them — that's the dream, innit.
Hybrid setups are where...
Running a Webasto in my shepherd's hut off a similar setup — the startup surge is genuinely the killer.
Families need serious planning around battery capacity and backup—it's not just scaling up a couple's system.
Yeah, the cable run thing @HeathGazer mentions is spot on. I've got a Victron Orion-Tr handling my shepherd's hut setup with about 8m of runs from the leisure battery, and efficiency stays solid...
The inrush spike is honestly the real problem here. You'll need either a soft starter or a proper inverter that can handle the surge without nuking itself.
I've got a similar setup with the...
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Thread does seem to have gotten mangled there! But yeah, this is basically what I've got running to the shepherd's hut.
