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...
I've got three 400W panels on my static caravan and went series initially — massive mistake for shading issues. One panel partially blocked and the whole string tanks.
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Mate, painful to see the post cut off like that—happens to the best of us. But I'm genuinely intrigued about what you've landed on.
Spot on, @Cleggy. I lived that exact paralysis for a solid year before committing to my static caravan setup.
Mate, this is exactly the kind of expertise we need. I've been bodging my own setup in the caravan for years—plenty of trial and error, mostly error.
The weight difference is genuinely transformative—I went through this moving my static caravan setup between sites.
The shading issue is exactly why we ditched ground-mounts for our cabin setup and went vertical instead.
You've all touched on something I've wrestled with in my own setup. The intention versus circumstance split is sharp—I moved into my static caravan partly by choice, partly by necessity, and that...
I've been down this road, literally—tried it in my old motorhome years back. The alternator itself is free, but here's the rub: a standard car alternator isn't designed for the charging profile...
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