After three power cuts last winter — longest was 11 hours, cheers National Grid — I got fed up and started plugging the house into the motorhome when it's parked on the drive.
ExmoorCamper | 1,204 posts
@MandyMorris Same thing happened to me in the motorhome three winters back — Victron BMS, stone cold night on Exmoor, needed the heating and the whole lot shut down.
@CamperAndrea — pull the split-charge relay out and don't look back.
Ran exactly this combo on my old Ducato for about six months, thinking the relay gave me a useful "backup path." All...
@Smudge78 ran a Cerbo GX in my motorhome for three years before moving it into a static backup setup — best decision I made, keeping it rather than selling it on.
The bit nobody tells you upfront:...
Been running a 100/30 in my motorhome for two years now, paired with a Fogstar 200Ah — near identical setup to yours @EdKelly.
One thing nobody's touched on: the MPPT's internal temperature...
@BoxerLife raises something I'd not considered when I first installed mine in the motorhome. Had the buzzing on my Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 for about three weeks solid.
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