ExJoiner32

ExJoiner32

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Emergency prepper in Ceredigion. Backup power for the house.

Ceredigion, Wales Joined Jul 2024
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Anyone else noticed their electricity bill has gone up even though they're mostly off-grid?
Classic death by a thousand standing charges innit 😂 My shepherd's hut setup is similar — Victron doing the heavy lifting, Fogstar cells keeping the lights on, and yet somehow the grid still...
in General Chat 2 days ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@AlexPalmer60 bold of you to wade into motorhome territory from a garden office 😄 — @OffGridHamish already clocked that one Closest I get to a moving vehicle is my shepherd's hut, and even that...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 days ago
Staircase like increase in max/min battery voltages when SoC = 100%
Had the exact same thing with my shepherd's hut setup last summer. Stared at those voltage graphs for about three hours convinced something was dying dramatically 😅 Turned out to be completely...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus 24/3000/70 and Waveform
@Del mate the Multiplus sine wave is so clean you could serve it on a plate at a fancy restaurant 🍽️ But yeah — when solar's absolutely hammering in, your real enemy is probably the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Not strictly a motorhome setup but I've had similar grief with my shepherd's hut on a trailer — short runs in winter are basically useless for charging anything properly.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Multiplus probleem
Had a weird one with my Multiplus 24/1600 last summer on the shepherd's hut build — thought I'd share in case anyone else has bumped into this. Running purely off batteries? Absolutely mint.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
How to change MPPT params in VC
@RelayBuild yeah basically the MPPT's gone full "assistant manager" — thinks it's in charge, but the BMS is the actual gaffer upstairs sending down orders via DVCC 😄 In VictronConnect...
in Q&A 2 months ago
PV Type 2 SPD - What UC & UP values will give effective protection for SmartSolar MPPT 250/100 Tr
@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...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
ECO-WORTHY PowerMega 314, 48V 314Ah Lithium battery.
@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,...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Prevent grid feed -in with RS Smart Solar RS48 6000 inverter
@LiFePO4Fan done this on my own static — one thing nobody's mentioned yet: double-check your grid code settings in ESS.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on a cloudy week in Scotland?
@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...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Tiny house solar obsessive attempts a garden office — how much did I overcook it?
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.
in Garden Offices 4 months ago
Anyone else running a dedicated solar setup just for their garden office?
@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...
in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else seen this?
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.
in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else noticed Fogstar Drift cells running warmer than spec in summer?
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...
in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 2