Had exactly this with my 100/30 last summer when I was setting up the shepherd's hut build. Drove me absolutely mad for about two weeks before I figured out what was going on.
Turned out my...
@EmmaEdwards82 makes a fair point on load sizing. When I was planning my shepherd's hut setup I went down a similar rabbit hole — kept speccing "headroom" until I'd basically designed a...
Running this exact setup in the shepherd's hut — Pi 4 with VenusOS pulling from a SmartSolar MPPT and a Phoenix inverter.
Been mulling this over for a while now and curious what others think, particularly those running larger setups.
I'm looking at scaling up significantly beyond my current shepherd's hut system and...
Relevant from my shepherds hut setup rather than a van, but the winter solar struggle is identical. I ended up fitting a small wind turbine alongside my panels — even on dead grey days there's...
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet — check your panel connections with a thermal camera or even just your hand on a sunny day.
Interesting one this — slightly different situation to the usual "charge leisure from alternator" setup most of us deal with.
Got me thinking about my shepherd's hut build actually,...
@HeatherWalker I did something similar for the shepherd's hut build — ended up sourcing a dead Miele drum motor from a local white goods repair shop rather than a skip (they often have a pile out...
@SophieClark worth noting from my shepherd's hut setup (obviously static, different context) — when I was researching the Orion-Tr for a similar dual-battery situation, the Victron docs actually...
@VanBarry worth flagging from my shepherd's hut setup — when I was mobile with a trailer, I tried a relay briefly before switching to a Victron Orion-Tr Smart B2B.
Got a bit of an odd situation with my shepherd's hut build. I've got two 200W panels already wired up to a Victron SmartSolar 100/20, running sweet as a nut.
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@ShaunKelly87 The SmartSolar genuinely isn't designed to track SOC accurately — it's a charge controller, full stop.
Thread is full of cliffhangers today 😄
I've got a Cerbo GX on my shepherd's hut setup and honestly the mixed chemistry question kept me up for weeks before I just committed to separating them...
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Done almost exactly this in my shepherd's hut — went with a 4kW rather than 5kW and honestly even that feels like a lot for the space on a mild night.
Been down this road with my shepherd's hut setup — the grid power display discrepancy when running parallel units is a known quirk rather than a fault.
What's happening is the GX device is...
