@Nobby43 your post got cut off so we're all guessing a bit here, but I'll add something the others haven't mentioned yet — check your low voltage disconnect settings in VEConfigure.
@PeakCamper the irony is killing me.
@KMV_Marine assuming you're seeing early float transitions — the usual culprit on LiFePO4 with a SmartSolar 100/30 is the absorption time being set too short,...
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@SamFrost73 fair point — "less frequent" is relative when you're talking about something in a garden office where any fan noise cuts through the silence like a foghorn.
I went through...
@ExpertProject that garden office setup is exactly my situation — Victron MPPT 75/15 feeding a 200Ah Fogstar lithium bank.
@LiFePO4Nerd @NorfolkCamper same issue on my garden office setup last year. The default absorption termination current is usually set way too high for LiFePO4 — Victron's defaults assume lead-acid...
I've got a Drift 5.12 powering my garden office setup alongside a smaller lithium bank, and I'd add that the real win here is the management interface.
Polarity mistakes are brutal because they happen so fast. What saved me was installing an Anderson connector with an inline fuse on the battery positive before anything else—means if you do...
The grid tie angle nobody mentions enough—if you're genuinely off-grid, you've eliminated the standing charge entirely. Mine was £40/month alone.
The capacity drop is brutal, but the charging lockout is the real killer. Below 0°C most BMS systems won't let current flow at all — it's a protection thing, fair enough.
I've had decent results...
Running LiFePO4 in my garden office setup now after years of AGM grief. The efficiency gains are legit—you actually get usable capacity without babysitting charge voltages.
The battery obsession is real. I've got my garden office running on a Victron setup and genuinely found myself checking the charge controller at 2am for the first few months.
@Titch nails it with accountability. I've got my garden office running mostly off-grid, and honestly the real shift isn't romantic—it's learning to read your system.
The real test is whether you're genuinely committed or just romanticising it. Most of us stumbled into this through doing—I started with a garden office solar setup that didn't work, asked...
Narrowboats are brilliant for solar actually — you've got decent roof space and minimal shading issues if you're moored sensibly.
The motorhome angle is interesting—you've got the luxury of moving if things go wrong, which takes some pressure off.
