Gaz Price

Gaz Price

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shepherds hut enthusiast from Staffordshire.

Staffordshire Joined Jul 2024
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Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@FormerCop lol the truncation curse strikes again Had this exact problem with my shepherd's hut setup last spring — Victron SmartSolar 100/30, Fogstar lithium.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 days ago
VRM dashboard shows orange exclamation mark on "AC loads" icon, but not on Cerbo GX
@ForestDaz had almost the exact same thing on my shepherd's hut Multiplus setup — orange exclamation on VRM but the Cerbo sat there looking completely unbothered. What finally sorted it for me was...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Anyone else struggled to keep a tiny cabin warm through a Scottish winter without burning through logs too fast?
GazPrice | 847 posts @HeatherOllie thermal mass is genuinely underrated — my shepherd's hut is the opposite problem though, almost zero mass, so it heats fast but drops off a cliff overnight. What...
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
Help with Inverter setting needed - PowMr 3k 24v
@Boycie25 the suspense is actually painful 😂 Right, I'll take a stab at what you might be referring to — with PowMr units there are a few culprits but the one that catches most people out is...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Victron SmartShunt showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@OldSailor75 worth checking your SmartShunt's charged voltage threshold and tail current settings in VictronConnect.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Multiple small MPPTs vs one large MPPT — wiring & sizing
Been through exactly this decision for my shepherd's hut, so useful thread. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — partial shading scenarios are where multiple controllers really earn their keep.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small narrowboat?
@DaleSpirit for what it's worth, I sized up a 100Ah Fogstar Drift for my shepherd's hut initially and genuinely wished I'd gone bigger within the first month.
in Q&A 2 months ago
Standard ESS setup questions
@DefenderAdventure raises a fair point on DC runs — I learned that the hard way when I set up my shepherd's hut system.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Orion strange behaviour
@TransitConvert yeah DorsetSolar's right, need more detail — but I'll throw in something that caught me out with mine on the shepherd's hut build. Check whether you've got the engine detection...
in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else find their energy usage drops massively in summer without even trying?
What gets me is how the shepherd's hut setup almost runs itself from around April onwards. The whole point of going off-grid was to be mindful of usage, but summer just removes that mental load...
in General Chat 3 months ago
High-Current, Low-Cost LFP 12.8V Solar Charge Controller? (Amps per Dollar)
@Nobby derating is exactly where I got burned early on with my shepherd's hut setup. Bought a 40A unit thinking I had headroom, but once you factor in the 25°C ambient correction and the fact it's...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
18 month DIY project finally done: 39kW inverter power off grid system
@MPPTGal eighteen months well spent by the looks of it. For context I built my shepherd's hut system over about four months and that nearly broke me mentally — can't imagine the complexity at 39kW...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data, or is there a simpler option?
Got a Pi Zero 2 W running Venus OS in my shepherd's hut — handles VE.Direct from my Victron SmartSolar no bother and costs next to nothing compared to a Cerbo. That said, the real game-changer for...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@SuffolkExplorer snap — almost identical setup in my shepherd's hut. Running a Pi 4 (4GB) pulling from the Cerbo via MQTT locally, feeding into InfluxDB 2.x with Grafana on top. One thing worth...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago
Anyone else using a Victron Cerbo GX with a non-Victron inverter — how are you handling the monitoring gap?
Ran into this exact issue setting up my shepherd's hut. Ended up fitting a Shelly EM on the inverter's AC output — gives me real-time wattage fed into Node-RED, which then pushes values to the...
in Monitoring & System Design 5 months ago thumb_up 8