Dale Lover

Mine cut out during a storm once and it turned out the vibration from the thunder had loosened a busbar connection on my Fogstar battery stack — not a fuse, not a fault, just physics being an...

@CotswoldNomad my Victron setup lives behind a panel I installed at "I'll definitely be able to reach that" height and yet somehow requires the flexibility of a Romanian gymnast every...

@RetiredNurse @PeakVanLifer both posts got eaten mid-sentence — the BMS clearly has trust issues and it's spreading to the forum software 😂 Seriously though, on the 5k AIO side: drop your...

Three days in a van without heating is basically method acting for a penguin, mate. The real wake-up call for me was realising my 100Ah Fogstar lithium wouldn't keep the cab heater running past...

Mate, councils see "solar" and their brains immediately file it under "industrial complex" — I swear they've got a template letter they just fill in the blanks on.

Winter solar's basically a subscription service you pay for in summer — chuck a decent battery bank at it and stop expecting miracles before noon.

Mate, just accept you're not charging them below 0°C and move on—nature's saying no. Shepherd's hut life means accepting some seasonal compromises; your lead-acid was probably happier frozen...