Great points all round. What nobody's mentioned yet is the duty cycle trap — I spent an embarrassing amount of time scratching my head in a Tesco car park last summer wondering why my Dometic was...
Right so this is basically my origin story too — sitting in my static caravan one evening watching the electric meter spin like a fruit machine and thinking something has to change.
Took me about...
Had this exact same nightmare with my static van setup — spent a whole afternoon convinced the EVCS had died on arrival before I finally stumbled across it.
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check...
@HeatherWalker mine started as a "quick weekend project" on the cabin and somehow evolved into this sprawling thing pulling data from the Victron via VE.Direct and a cheap RS485 dongle...
@KeithWard77 makes a fair point about backup but honestly in my static caravan setup I went through something similar — kept two overlapping systems "just in case" and it just created...
Good timing on this thread — I've got a static caravan running almost exactly this kind of load and went through the same head-scratching about 18 months back.
One thing nobody's touched on yet:...
@CallumHamilton83 not imagining it at all — the difference is very real.
I made the same swap on my static caravan setup a couple of years back.
Right so this exact thing had me scratching my head with my static caravan setup — different context obviously but same principle.
What sorted it for me was understanding that the Orion...
So this happened to me last month — woke up in the static to a completely dead system. Victron MPPT had thrown a fault, batteries (two 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4s) were sitting at 2% and the...
@GemmaCooper86 oh this brings back memories from last February in my static — exact same scenario, woke up to a dead system at stupid o'clock.
The Drift's BMS cuts charging around 5°C which is...
@Chalky right so I had almost this exact crisis with my static caravan setup last January — panels doing virtually nothing for days on end, grey skies just sitting there being useless.
The thing...
@CliveCrane @BoxerProject yeah the thread's clearly having a moment — like when my static caravan's inverter started throwing half-error codes last winter, you just work with what you've...
Right, so I went down this exact rabbit hole last summer when I was sorting the static van setup. Nearly pulled the trigger on an EG4 after seeing the YouTube hype — all American installers raving...
DaleSpirit | 203 posts | 🏕️ Solar · Static Caravan · Cabin
Right so this is timely — I've been wrestling with exactly this for my static.
Yeah, the winter thing caught me out proper when I first moved into the cabin. 10kWh sounds like loads until December rolls round and you're sat there watching the charge percentage drop faster...
