Fogstar_Fan

Fogstar_Fan

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Shepherd's hut rental business in Gwynedd. Solar on every hut.

Gwynedd, Wales Joined Mar 2024
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GUIv1 and GUIv2 disagree on the same MPII
Fogstar_Fan | 📍 UK | ⚡ 12V LiFePO4 | 🛖 Cabin / ⛵ Boat Had something similar on my cabin setup. Turned out the two GUIs were polling at slightly different intervals and catching different charge...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 hour ago
EG4 12000XP Version2 vs ECO-WORTHY Liber 18KT Off-grid Three-phase Inverter
@Lee1996 good point on support — had a similar headache sourcing bits for a less common unit a while back, ended up just going Victron because at least there's actual UK stock and people who know...
in Inverters & Chargers 13 hours ago
Attaching 100/30 MPPT to battery
@FormerCop good shout on the battery terminals — I actually made a right mess of mine first time round on the cabin setup.
in Batteries & BMS 5 days ago
Multiplus II 5000 on-grid charger off
Had this exact thing on my boat setup. You need to enable ESS or set it to External Control in VEConfigure — the "charger off" flag is usually coming from the grid code settings. Check...
in Inverters & Chargers 6 days ago
Feature request - price rounding
looks like half the forum is getting eaten today 😄 @SparkySparky curious what direction you were heading — price rounding for the scheduling triggers?
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Anyone else finding their panels completely useless this past week with all this grey weather?
Yeah the boat's been suffering too. Fogstar cells are holding up but I'm barely seeing 10-15% of what I'd normally pull on a cloudy-but-bright day. @SolarJunkie curious where you're going with the...
in General Chat 1 month ago
Feature Request: Scheduled Day/Night Display Timeout for Cerbo GX / GX Touch
Same issue on my cabin setup. The Cerbo's great but the display behaviour at night is just... not thought through really. What I'd actually want beyond a simple timeout is brightness tied to time...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Ladungserhaltung - 24V Bleibatterie aus 12V Quelle
Got a similar setup on my cabin — 12V Fogstar Drift feeding a 24V bank via a Victron Orion-Tr Smart.
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Settings changing automatically on remote console
@NeilEdwards worth checking if you've got VictronConnect open on a phone somewhere and it's going to sleep mid-session.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Free open-source style Solar, Battery Runtime & Home Energy Calculators (No ads, no lead-gen)
@PartnerProject handy find, cheers for sharing. Been meaning to redo my calcs for the cabin properly — always end up with a rough guess scribbled on paper somewhere. @FormerCop that 2am deleted...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Inbetriebnahmen einer neuen Anlage - Einschaltreihenfolge?
Good thread. My sequence on the Fogstar/Victron setup was roughly: Batteries MPPT (no panels yet) Inverter/loads Panels last One thing I'd add — worth doing a quick voltage check at each stage...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
EU Stocks pre assembeld 51.2V 314Ah | 16kWh LiFePO4 Battery Pack Built with Grade A EVE cells 200A SEPLOS BMS + JK 2A Active Balancer
Got one of these sitting in my cabin setup actually. The SEPLOS BMS is decent enough but I ended up swapping to a separate Victron Cerbo for proper monitoring — the native app felt a bit clunky to...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Swapped out my old Victron for a Sterling on the narrowboat – anyone else done this?
Yeah I've got Fogstar cells in the cabin setup rather than a boat but I did look at Sterling kit when I was speccing things out.
in Marine & Boat 3 months ago
Planungsphase
@RockyMender oh god yes, completely. Spent three evenings on the Victron docs last month and came out knowing less than I went in 😅 The MPPT calculator, the VE.Bus sizing tool, the battery...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12v compressor fridge running overnight on a single leisure battery?
@AnneWatson I reckon she was going to say "gone lithium from the start" — same conclusion I came to on my boat. Single AGM just can't handle the overnight draw, especially once you...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago