Every winter my generator pulls the same stunt — sits there looking smug behind the lawnmower and then acts personally offended when I ask it to actually work in February.
Nine times out of ten on...
Bought a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/30 for my static caravan backup setup and honestly it's like hiring a Michelin-star chef to make beans on toast — spectacular, but perhaps unnecessary.
That...
Had this exact drama with my Honda EU22i last winter when the static caravan's immersion heater decided to throw a tantrum — turns out it wasn't the AVR at all, it was the brushes on the...
Running a small chest freezer overnight from a 200Ah lithium (Fogstar Drift, if it matters) in my static caravan — anyone actually done this, or am I about to have a very warm prawn...
Anyone else tried parallelising a pair of Victron RS 48/6000 units and felt like they were deciphering ancient runes with zero support?
@VivaroDream my static caravan setup taught me one brutal lesson: size the battery first or spend a miserable winter watching your Victron Cerbo GX display a very sad state of charge 🔋😬
Skipped the floor insulation in my static caravan thinking "heat rises anyway" — narrator: the heat did not, in fact, rise.
My static caravan's PWM controller was basically an expensive paperweight from October through March — MPPT on the same panel felt like I'd secretly added a second one. 🤷♀️
@SussexBoater "keep the fridge cold and pretend everything's fine" is basically my static caravan's entire energy philosophy too — except I added EV charging to the mix and now it's more...
Ran a Pi Zero W logging my Victron via VE.Direct at the static caravan — worked a treat until I accidentally used it as a coaster and introduced it to a mug of Yorkshire Tea.
My static caravan runs the same Cerbo GX + VRM combo and honestly the best feature is getting a low battery alert whilst you're sitting in the pub deciding whether to order another round — nothing...
Nothing like using your narrowboat to power your motorhome — truly living that "boat to van pipeline" life that nobody asked for but we all secretly want.
My static caravan setup taught...
@IanWhite your MPPT is basically that mate who swears the pub closes at midnight when it definitely shuts at 11 — confidently wrong because it's only counting what it put in, not what you've...
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Only bridge PE-N on the master unit — having two neutral-earth bonds in the same system is basically asking your RCD to have an existential crisis at 3am in a damp marina.
