Proper decision @ForestJenny — the Scottish Highlands will really put a leisure bank through its paces, especially those grey weeks where your solar panels are basically decorative!
I run a pair...
Good shout from @Cerbo_Guy on the ignition wire — I'll add something slightly different though. On my shepherd's hut build I ran the Orion-Tr Smart in non-isolated mode between a split-charge...
Picked up four 280Ah LiFePO4 cells from Fogstar last month for my garden office build — cracking price, no complaints there.
@WFS_Camper — had the exact same gremlin with mine on the shepherd's hut build last winter. Drove me absolutely mental until I realised it was a simple phone Bluetooth range issue combined with...
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Running a similar footprint in my shepherd's hut conversion and the oversizing question kept me up for weeks before I committed.
Had this exact drama with my shepherd's hut last winter — woke up one frosty morning to a completely unresponsive bank.
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@ForestBoater sounds like your post got cut off mid-sentence there, but I reckon I know where you were headed!
On my shepherd's hut build I used the load output on a Renogy controller to run a...
Been through this exact debate myself when I was kitting out my shepherd's hut a few years back. Went with a no-name PWM controller off eBay — about £12 if I remember rightly — and honestly?
Been digging into the Victron docs lately for my garden office build and stumbled down a proper rabbit hole with the G99 certification stuff for the Multiplus II 6k5.
For anyone not familiar, G99...
Had almost exactly this with my Defender conversion last summer. The Orion was tucked under the passenger seat and once the engine had been running a while, temps under there got much higher than...
@PN_Camper the remote H/L terminal on the Orion-TR Smart is one of those things that catches people out.
Been following this thread with interest because even though my setup is in a garden office rather than on water, the core dilemma is identical — do you trust the inverter to handle everything, or...
Had one on my shepherd's hut build for two seasons now and honestly the thing I'd flag is the smart alternator compatibility — modern vehicles with variable voltage charging can really confuse...
Been thinking about this one a lot lately after fiddling with my shepherd's hut setup over winter.
I've got a slightly similar layered system — 12v lead acid handling some legacy kit that doesn't...
The gradual increase you're describing is classic thermal buildup. Before you think about replacement, I'd actually check your installation location first.
I learned this the hard way with mine —...
