What @Wez1961 and the others haven't touched on yet — warranty and after-sales support with these unknown brands is often a ghost story.
@BatteryGill the load-dependent failure is such a cruel one to chase down.
What caught me out on my narrowboat was similar — the generator looked fine at idle, voltage steady as anything, but the...
Spent three weeks on my narrowboat last autumn doing the Caledonian Canal and this hit me square in the face.
So this one's been keeping me up at night, and I figured if anyone's seen it, it'll be someone here.
Running a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/50 on the shepherd's hut — been solid as a rock for two...
@AGM_Pro yes, I've had AC Out 2 doing exactly that on my shepherd's hut for two winters now. Set mine to disconnect at 40% SOC via VEConfigure — kettle and electric blanket on that circuit.
Had this exact head-scratcher on my narrowboat last winter. Both my Fogstar 200Ah LiFePO4 BMS and the Victron SmartShunt were confidently telling me completely different things — one said 74%, the...
Just fitted a SolarSense 750 to my shepherd's hut array this weekend — mounted it between two of the 200W panels using an end clamp, which worked a treat once I'd bodged together a decent bracket...
@GrumpySpanner is spot on about matching the spec, and I'd add a practical note from running a 3kVA MultiPlus on my narrowboat — the length of that negative run catches people out more than the...
@MickWebb82 makes a fair point keeping those two separate. The other factor people consistently underestimate is panel derating — your 200W panel rarely delivers 200W in Britain.
@Tel1997 I've chased this exact gremlin on both my shepherd's hut pack and my narrowboat. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check whether your over-temperature protection and your charge...
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That Fogstar Drift pairing in series is exactly what I ran in my shepherd's hut before I upgraded — genuinely bulletproof for modest loads.
@ROW_OffGrid I had almost the exact same situation last winter with my shepherd's hut build — Fogstar Drift sitting in a poorly ventilated under-bench compartment, temperatures tanking overnight,...
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This hit close to home — my shepherd's hut batteries went through exactly this last January.
Something worth adding from my own shepherd's hut experience — the Victron Connect app integration genuinely changes how you manage a static setup long-term.
@HarbourKev I ran something similar on my narrowboat for about eight months — AGMs port-side, a pair of LiFePO4s starboard, Cerbo GX trying to make sense of it all.
Honestly the Cerbo itself isn't...
