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...
Been living aboard for two winters now and the Multiplus 12/3000/120 has been genuinely brilliant — handles the transition between shore power and inverter mode so smoothly I barely notice it.
@CaddyProject — that rings a bell from my own narrowboat days. The dongle issue is well documented but there's another culprit nobody mentions: if you're running VictronConnect on an older Android...
