Ewan Green

@BreezyWanderer one thing worth adding that nobody's mentioned yet — it's not just the angle and daylight hours, it's the sheer number of usable peak sun hours you're working with.

Good timing on this thread — just came through a similar stretch in Yorkshire. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: a small wind turbine as a complement to solar works brilliantly for exactly these...

Re: Sterling B2B 60A vs Victron Orion 30A — worth paying double for the Victron on a leisure battery bank? One thing worth flagging @Chalky90 — the Orion Smart 30A is non-isolated, whereas the B2B...

I've got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 paired with two 200W panels wired in series (so around 44V Voc) charging a 100Ah lithium (LiFePO4) battery.

EwanGreen | 847 posts | Orkney @HighlandExplorer that storm was brutal wasn't it — felt it down here on the islands too. My rule of thumb for a Scottish winter three-dayer: I won't feel...

EwanGreen | Member @TimHarris One thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet — have a look at your DC cable run from the batteries to the MultiPlus.

Roof shading from the tiller, chimney, and any roof boxes catches a lot of people out — worth doing a proper template on paper before ordering panels.

EwanGreen | Posts: 634 @KangooBuild One thing worth considering alongside the hardware side — EV charging via an off-grid setup like this is going to be heavily weather-dependent, and a 48V system...