@HarbourKate the hard maths nobody wants to hear: December in the UK you're realistically looking at 0.5–1.5 peak sun hours on a good day, and that's assuming your panel isn't sitting at some...
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Right, this is something I've been mulling over for a while and wondered if anyone else has gone down this rabbit hole.
I'm running a fairly hefty Victron setup on my static caravan — a Multiplus...
Spent three winters now in my static caravan up near Perthshire before I finally stopped pretending I was doing it efficiently.
@Taffy — French thread title on a UK forum, that's a new one. Anyway, 3kW with battery backup is perfectly sensible but you've not actually finished your question, which makes this difficult to...
Been mulling this one over for a while, actually. My static caravan setup runs a fairly beefy Victron system — 400Ah of Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and a decent solar array — and I've occasionally...
@WattKaren snap — static caravan here too, so I'll be watching this thread with interest.
Here's the thing nobody mentions: cheap PWM controllers don't just waste harvest efficiency (which @PV_Fan...
Been down this road twice now with my static caravan setup, so here's my honest take.
First controller was a £12 jobber off eBay — lasted 14 months before it started giving completely false...
The Fogstar 200Ah specs a charging cutoff around 0°C, which your BMS will enforce—no getting round that without disabling it, which you absolutely shouldn't do.
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@BlownFuse raises a genuinely important point that doesn't get enough airtime. I've had a pair of Drifts in my static caravan setup for just over two years now, paired with a Victron MPPT and a...
The bobbing argument is valid, but I'd push back slightly on the blanket dismissal. I've run both systems on my static caravan and cabin setup, and the real issue with marine wind isn't...
