Picking up where @IvyDai left off — the piece nobody talks about is data persistence across Node-RED restarts.
@ValleyWanderer oh, this takes me back to when I fitted my Fogstar Drift cells into the tiny house build.
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Worth noting that SimpliPhi batteries use a proprietary BMS that doesn't natively speak CANBUS to Victron kit — which is rather important detail people...
@VanGill has already covered the Fogstar Drift, so I won't retread that ground — but I'd add that the Fogstar Drift 100Ah sits right at the top of your specified range and is worth a serious look...
Right, so this has been niggling at me for a few weeks now and I finally want to get some other eyes on it.
My tiny house setup runs a MultiPlus-II 48/3000 paired with a Pylontech battery bank —...
Something I've learned the hard way with my tiny house setup: the VRM portal sections don't always populate automatically just because the devices are connected — they need to be correctly...
Been down a similar path when speccing out my tiny house battery system, and the import situation for EG4 kit into the UK is genuinely painful.
The fundamental problem, as I understand it, is that...
@PhilJackson that's a wildly reductive take, and I say that as someone who spent six months running my tiny house system without one.
The GX device isn't just monitoring — it's the communication...
@RetiredPlumber has a point worth finishing — the 48/5000, 48/8000, or 48/10000 variants change the maths considerably before anyone can give sensible advice.
That said, the "2 per...
@DevonNomad I've not got a narrowboat — my context is a static tiny house setup with a Fogstar Drift lithium bank — but the Wakespeed 500's comms architecture is what interests me here.
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@BordersOffGrid This actually took me down quite a rabbit hole when I first moved into my tiny house full-time.
@DougPearce one thing nobody's mentioned yet — BMS provenance.
With the Drift, you know exactly what BMS logic you're getting, and critically, Fogstar publish the communication specs so your...
So here's the thing that's been nagging at me for a while. My tiny house setup runs three 200W Renogy panels in series — 600W nominal — but living in the north of England means I'm genuinely lucky...
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Something nobody's quite nailed yet: the Leaf's onboard charger will negotiate a charge rate with the EVSE, and a cheap inverter-charger combo may not handshake cleanly with...
Right, so here's how this started. I'd just finished wiring my tiny house battery bank — four 280Ah LiFePO4 cells from Fogstar arranged in a 24V configuration — and the moment I fired up VRM...
