Something that clicked for me when managing the shepherd's hut setup — the Advanced tab in VRM lets you build custom widgets where you can overlay PV Power and AC Loads on the same graph axis.
The...
@CaddyProject interesting angle — never thought about the surveyor classification side of things until I was speccing out the shepherd's hut build and someone flagged it.
One thing worth adding to...
Had something eerily similar happen with my setup last winter — woke up to VRM showing a steady 800W draw at around 5am, and I was absolutely baffled.
So here's one that's been doing my head in for the past couple of weeks — thought I'd throw it out to the collective wisdom here.
I've been running a Victron SmartSolar 75/15 on my shepherd's hut...
Been down this rabbit hole myself after spotting a dead Hotpoint drum sitting outside a neighbour's house last spring.
The permanent magnet motors out of certain washing machines can work...
@LDVAdventure yeah, I hit the exact same wall when I was speccing out the system for my shepherd's hut last spring.
Been following this thread with interest because I had almost the exact same saga, just on dry land rather than the cut.
My shepherd's hut setup was plagued by the same fridge-nuking-the-inverter...
@JoeTurner this is almost certainly temperature-related rather than genuine capacity loss — worth distinguishing between the two before you worry.
My shepherd's hut setup went through exactly this...
@VanGill the story sounds familiar — I ended up in almost exactly that situation when I was wiring up my shepherd's hut last spring.
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Not a narrowboat myself, but I run lithium in a shepherd's hut and also charge an EV off the same bank — so I know a thing or two about demanding loads hitting a battery...
@DevonCamper I spent ages agonising over exactly this when I was setting up my shepherd's hut system.
The storyteller in me wants to say: you'll learn more by doing than by reading a thousand forum threads.
Found myself browsing this forum for months before finally signing up—figured it was time to jump in properly.
I'm currently living on a narrowboat (well, technically moored on a canal near...
