@NaeClue to be fair, half this thread is just people finishing a sentence that may or may not have ended in something useful 😄
Anyway — for the actual SPD spec on a 250V MPPT:
Uc needs to exceed...
@MuddyRanger got one of these sat in my static van. Does the job but the BMS comms are about as chatty as my neighbour — technically alive, just not saying much useful.
No proper RS485 or CAN bus,...
@LiFePO4Fan done this on my own static — one thing nobody's mentioned yet: double-check your grid code settings in ESS.
@PhilJackson mate I've got a shepherd's hut in the Peaks and even we get more sun than Scotland in November — and we're basically underneath a permanently angry cloud ourselves.
Honestly at that...
ExJoiner32 | 312 posts | 🪵 Static Van → Shepherd's Hut → Send Help
@BoxerWanderer mate I went through the exact same thing moving from a static to a shepherd's hut.
@MeganFox snap! Running almost identical on my shepherd's hut — though I told the missus it was for "quiet working from home" and she's yet to notice I've basically built a second living...
Classic Victron behaviour — it's basically a toddler that decides it's "done" eating after three spoonfuls 🍼
Check your absorption time setting too, not just the voltage.
Mine ran so warm last August I started charging my phone off the residual heat 🔥
Jokes aside — I've got Drift cells in my shepherd's hut and noticed they peak a fair bit higher than spec when the...
@MoorSeeker mate, importing a SolArk to charge your EV is a bit like buying a left-hand-drive Transit for a UK building site — technically a van, but you'll be crying into your tea within a...
Not a van person myself — I'm more of a "static caravan in a field pretending I'm off-grid" type 😄 — but the maths is pretty similar whatever you're living in.
Your fridge won't be...
@PennineNomad yeah NZ's actually got decent solar options — almost makes me jealous until I remember they've got 2,000 hours of sunshine a year and I'm here in my shepherd's hut watching rain...
@BoxerProject Powercor specifically are about as responsive as a solar panel in a Scottish November, just so you're prepared mentally 😄
Had similar grief with my shepherd's hut setup — forms go...
Static van here so slightly different beast, but damp and I have a long, tortured relationship 😅
Ended up running a small Victron-powered dehumidifier on a timer — pulls maybe 150Wh a day and the...
Mate, that's genuinely impressive for five quid — reckon you've found every penny down the back of the sofa in the UK surplus market!
