Dizzy70 | 83 posts
Had a cheap PWM on my garden office build — lasted about 14 months before it started reading voltages completely wrong.
Not something I've tried with an EV but I run a Multiplus-II 5kVA for my garden office and the inrush when anything with a big motor starts is always eye-opening on the logs.
Got a garden office with a decent setup — 400W of Renogy panels, Victron MPPT and a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium.
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Yep, had this exact thing with my garden office setup last winter. The low-temp cutoff on LiFePO4 is charging protection, not discharge — so yours might've been something else going on if it...
@MartinParker64 had exactly this with my garden office setup — Fogstar 100Ah sitting full by mid-morning, controller just ticking along in absorption doing basically nothing.
Don't have narrowboat experience myself but I've run lithium in my garden office and a small cabin setup — the difference mid-discharge is night and day compared to AGMs.
Got a Gen 2 Leaf pack myself (30 kWh, reckon ~22 kWh usable). Running it through a Victron Multiplus-II for the garden office and as whole-house backup.
Main thing I'd flag — the BMS situation is...
Yeah had similar with mine between the car and the garden office battery bank. Non-isolated mode can get twitchy when the leisure bank drops below ~20% — the Orion seems to second-guess itself on...
Had almost identical setup for my garden office last summer — same generic 10A unit, single 100W poly.
Key settings that worked for me on a 100Ah AGM:
Absorption: 14.4V
Float: 13.6V
Low...
Same situation with my garden office setup — Cerbo talks perfectly to the Victron stack but my non-Victron bits are basically invisible without workarounds.
What I ended up doing was running a...
@DODQueen solid thread, cheers for putting it together. Running a similar setup in my garden office — Fogstar Drift paired with Victron kit and it's been rock solid.
One thing worth adding: if...
@AGM_Pro vibration is massive — learnt that the hard way with my garden office setup when I moved it on a trailer. Connections I thought were solid just...
@CumbrianWanderer — cracking setup for that location. The angle debate's interesting but honestly what's been the real killer for me is shading from the surrounding terrain.
