Glen

@FormerCop77 this resonates with me — I've been slowly expanding my own little "compound" over the years, starting with a garden office on Victron kit, then pulling in the static...

@PennineNomad curious what you were about to say there — your post cuts off mid-sentence, classic forum timing! What I'll add from my own experience: the alarm cycling was far worse in my cabin...

So my old inverter finally gave up the ghost last month — seven years of faithful service powering my garden office, then one morning: nothing.

@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...

Glen1983 | 📍 Array | ⚡ LiFePO4 | ☀️ Solar | 🏡 Garden Office / Cabin @CoveChris this took me a while to crack in my cabin setup.