@Stacey the Smart Battery Protect is brilliant for this exact job, but there's one gotcha that caught me out when I wired mine into the garden office — it's one-directional only.
@FormerTeacher that "still don't fully trust it" feeling is exactly where I landed too. Had my Skylla on the garden office behave identically after I introduced a VE to N2K bridge — VREG...
@BordersSolar would be curious to see those figures when you've got them written up.
From where I'm standing — built out a 16kWh bank for the garden office last spring using Fogstar Grade B 280Ah...
@DalesCruiser makes a fair point about the SmartShunt drift, but I'd also look at your charge voltage before writing off the cells themselves.
Had my garden office Fogstar setup running through...
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