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Gazza89 | Posts: 412 | Location: Yorkshire Interesting thread this! One thing worth flagging that I don't think's been mentioned yet — the Victron Smart Lithium has that VE.Bus BMS integration...

Gazza89 | 412 posts @GoldenGaffer Worth doing mate, I've had two 100Ah Drifts running in my Transit conversion since last autumn and honestly the difference is night and day.

Hey @VanNicola, congrats on surviving the first cold snap — that's genuinely the hardest part done! Curious what your actual daily yield has been looking like on those flat panels?

Gazza89 | 312 posts | 🔋 Solar Tinkerer @BlownFuse looks like your message got chopped — finish your thought and we can give proper advice! That said, for a static caravan used 3-4 weekends a...

Yeah noticed this too @ZI_Sparks — picked up four of the same cells about eight months ago and the price has definitely shifted since then.

So I've been running a fairly basic setup in my Transit for about eight months now — one 200W panel on the roof feeding into a 20A Epever Tracer MPPT, then into a 100Ah leisure battery.

@ExFirefighter42 and @Steve1993 have covered the earthing side well. One thing I'd throw in — if you're going down the manual transfer switch route, make sure it's a proper break-before-make...

Been down this rabbit hole myself when I was kitting out my shed setup. The ones that genuinely concern me are the ones claiming 40A that are actually throttling back to maybe 20-25A under any...