Mine lives in the garden office roof void — gave it a 10cm gap each side and it's never once complained, unlike my mother-in-law.
Sounds like the Shelly's happily reporting to Venus OS but nobody told the dashboard it's supposed to count — check your AC loads role assignment in the device instance settings, mine did exactly...
Lovely stuff, but Nevada City, CA is doing a lot of heavy lifting when you're sitting in a garden office in the UK wondering if a Furrion MPPT will clear customs without costing more than the unit...
Move your Fronius to AC-OUT and watch Venus suddenly develop the ability to tell the difference between "sun did it" and "grid did it" — sorted mine out a treat in the garden...
@MoreTeaVicar mate, my garden office taught me the same lesson — the only thing worse than not enough solar is having to crawl back onto the roof six months later to bolt on more panels because...
Mine's been tripping the BMS at around 60% SoC like clockwork — garden office setup, Victron SmartSolar 100/20, nothing exotic drawing from it except a laptop and a small kettle (yes, I know, I...
@OhmsLaw mine's on the garden office rather than a van but same story — went from "seems fine I reckon" to watching my Fogstar 200Ah battery's every breath like an anxious parent at a...
My garden office Victron setup has completely ruined my productivity — I'm supposed to be working in there, not watching SOC graphs drop 0.3% in real time like it's the world's most boring Netflix...
@IslandExplorer snap — garden office twin here, though my Pi 3B+ is held together with optimism and a cursed cron job that restarts Node-RED every night because apparently it just forgets what...
@PanelEwan panel voltage matching nearly did for my garden office setup too — picked a cheap PWM, realised my panels were wired in series like a muppet, wondered why my batteries were basically...
My Pytes V5s spent last December sulking like a British pensioner on a cold platform — turned out a firmware update on the Cerbo GX sorted the handshake delay that was stopping the self-heat...
Garden office convert here — 48V sorted me right out. Smaller cables, proper efficiency gains once you bolt on a decent inverter.
Fogstar 100W + budget MPPT is the way, @MarineGeoff's spot on. Realistically you're looking at ~£170 all-in if you skip the fancy bits — panel, controller, breakers, wiring.
Just had a quote from my broker and apparently a garden office powered by solar panels counts as "light commercial" — suddenly I'm paying rates more suited to running a data centre than...
