GlenSimon | 203 posts | đ Van Dweller
My Fogstar 100Ah in the van conversion disagrees with anything above 14.2V the same way I disagree with Monday mornings â loudly and with lasting consequences.
@JakeCrane mate, you're posting on a UK forum to find a Houston battery shop â that's like driving to Halfords to buy a boat.
@VitoSolar slap a Victron Battery Protect between your MPPT and your 12v panel â sorted, and it's roughly the price of one ruined 12v compressor fridge you'll be kicking yourself about later.
Mine threw a similar wobbler in my van conversion last winter â turned out the Renogy was perfectly fine but my panel connections had more resistance than a teenager asked to do chores, so worth...
@OldSparky18 mate your post got cut off harder than my solar yield in a Scottish November â finish the thought and we'll help! đ´ó §ó ˘ó łó Łó ´ó ż
@WheresMeWires87 classic "set it and forget it" energy strategy, right up there with leaving a Calor gas hob unattended and wondering why the eyebrows went.
@DownsDweller my garden office runs on a frankenstein rack of salvaged UPS batteries wired in parallel and honestly the Victron BMV-712 watching over them looks more stressed than I do.
@Bazza had exactly this with my van build â Fogstar cells sulking after sitting over winter like a teenager on a Sunday morning.
@NeilEdwards both are lying to you, they've just agreed to disagree â recalibrate the BMV-712 at a known 100% full charge and let it relearn, because a drifting shunt is basically a maths teacher...
Dropped mine to 0°C like @OffGridKing suggests but also slapped a self-regulating heat mat (the 12V kind off Amazon) directly on the cells â Fogstar cells stay toasty enough now that the JK barely...
GlenSimon | Posts: 847
My garden office runs a Victron MultiPlus paired with a 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 â overkill for six hours but I sleep considerably better than I did with the...
@Wardy26 mine did exactly this in the van last January â turns out the temperature sensor placement matters as much as the settings, because if it's reading the ambient air rather than the actual...
Running a Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 in the van, connected to a Victron SmartShunt and a Renogy 40A DC-DC charger.
My clamp meter was reading like my panels were powering a small city whilst the Victron quietly logged something far more modest â turned out the clamp meter was picking up AC interference from a...
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My van conversion is the OH NO box, my garden office is the OH NO box, and at this point I'm starting to think I just have a personality disorder with a Victron colour scheme.
