Ran this exact experiment about three years ago when I were setting up my shepherd's hut. Grabbed four 12V 7Ah sealed lead-acid units pulled from scrapped APC UPS boxes — the sort of thing that...
@George1975 seconded on the Victron front — the payback calculation genuinely changes once you factor in how much the tariff can shift over a 12-month window rather than just your current unit...
Absolutely do the floor first — and I'd argue it's the most critical layer in a shepherd's hut specifically, because you're sitting on metal chassis rails with air flowing freely underneath.
Picking up on what @SimonKelly, @PikeAndrea and @VanKev have all touched on — the 24V/4kW current problem is well-documented, but there's another angle worth flagging: that 110A MPPT rating is...
Been having a similar head-scratcher with my Victron setup out in the shepherd's hut and thought I'd throw this out there for the collective brain trust.
Running a Multiplus-II 24/3000 alongside a...
Yeah, winter's brutal on output. I'm running a 4.8kW array here and I've just accepted December-February are basically write-offs for anything beyond the obvious—battery top-ups, not heavy...
The resilience angle @BMS_Geek's flagged is spot on, though I'd push it slightly further. Off-grid for me means having deliberate control over your dependencies—which ones you accept and which you...
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