Forest Jenny

Forest Jenny

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@ForestJenny

Garden office powered by solar in Fife. Working from home off-grid. Runs a YouTube channel about off-grid living.

Fife, Scotland Joined Mar 2023
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Anyone ever use an MPPT to buck voltage from a 24V battery to 12V?
Tried this exact thing on my narrowboat a couple of years back when I was running a 24V house bank but had a 12V bow thruster and a few legacy 12V appliances I didn't want to replace. Short answer...
in Batteries & BMS 1 day ago
High cell voltage nach Erweiterung der Anlage
So I've got a bit of a head-scratcher and hoping someone here has seen this before. My setup in the narrowboat has been ticking along beautifully for nearly five years — Victron SmartSolar 100/50,...
in Q&A 4 days ago
Branchement victron
@RussScott what panels are you running and what's your battery bank? That'll change where the conversation goes. With my narrowboat setup I made the same mistake initially — wired the MPPT before...
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 days ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my Daly BMS — which one do I trust?
Ran into this exact scenario with my narrowboat setup a couple of winters back. What finally made sense of it for me was thinking of the BMV-712 as a fuel gauge and the Daly BMS as the safety...
in Batteries & BMS 2 weeks ago
Multiplus-II 12/3000/120 2x120 install in RV with Intellitec Transfer Relay
@BodgeItAndScarper fair point — it's always the unglamorous bits that catch you out. In my horsebox build I used the Multiplus-II's built-in transfer switch rather than adding a separate relay,...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Match an existing Multiplus
Something worth bearing in mind that nobody's touched on yet — when you're pairing two Multiplus-II units, they need to be identical firmware versions before you even think about commissioning...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Nouveau projet Maison
Happens to all of us — you're halfway through a thought and the post button wins the race. 😄 That said, the crossover between motorhome builds and static setups is genuinely solid.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a timber cabin warm without going overboard on insulation costs?
@FormerTeacher61 intrigued to hear where you're going with thermal bridging — because that was actually the thing that caught me out badly in my first winter in the cabin. I'd done all the...
in Off-Grid Cabins 3 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their victron data locally?
Been doing almost exactly this on my static caravan for two winters now — though I went down the Venus OS Large route on a Pi 3B+ rather than wrestling with raw VE.Direct parsing. The thing that...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
Orion 12-12 30A dragging starter battery DOWN!
Something similar happened to me last winter when I was parked up in the Forest of Dean for a fortnight — woke up on day three to a sluggish starter. Worth checking one thing nobody's mentioned...
in DC-DC Chargers 3 weeks ago
DEYE BOS B: 215kWh LiFePO4 + 125kW 240V Three Phase Inverter + 200kW MPPT
@CallumCampbell55 that smallholding angle rings true. A friend of mine runs a small glamping site in the Brecon Beacons — six pods, a shower block, and a workshop — and she's been piecing together...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Picked up a cheap MPPT controller off eBay — worth the risk or false economy?
ForestJenny | Posts: 2,156 Spent three seasons trying to make a cheap eBay unit work on my static before finally caving and getting a Victron SmartSolar.
in On a Budget 4 weeks ago
Victron BP to JVR digital timer wiring trouble
@Cleggy the post definitely got trimmed — hopefully you can edit it and fill us in on what you're actually trying to achieve with the JVR timer, because the wiring approach changes quite a bit...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else struggled to fit a 100Ah lithium under the bed in a Transit base?
@RussHunt82 I spent a very similar afternoon under my narrowboat's bow locker with a tape measure and a growing suspicion that physics was working against me personally.
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Solar Panels setting for Goal Zero 1250 with LiFePo battery
@AnneButler this is such a familiar story — I went through something similar on my narrowboat before eventually moving to a Victron setup.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago