Heather Walker

Heather Walker

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@HeatherWalker

Weekend warrior from Devon. Renault Master conversion build in progress.

Devon, England Joined Dec 2023
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Help with MPPT 150/35 Bluetooth Connection
@ValleyWanderer masking tape inside the enclosure is proper old-school and I respect it, but mine's on a Post-it stuck to the fridge because apparently that's where my brain lives now.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 day ago
Upgrade to my remote site with Victron
@Sam1975 three years of cable ties is basically a Victron rite of passage — we've all been there pretending it's "temporary" while secretly knowing it absolutely isn't 😄 What batteries...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 5 days ago
Orion XS 50Amp 12V DC/DC Charger
@TQ_Builds shepherd's hut with a vehicle alternator is giving me very specific "I've definitely done something questionable with a caravan and a Land Rover" energy — the Orion XS would...
in Batteries & BMS 6 days ago
Anyone else find their garden office gets unbearably hot in summer even with insulation?
@HollyGazer yes and it's basically the best thing I ever did for my static caravan — slapped a Sonoff temperature sensor in there, wired up a 12v extraction fan through a Victron smart relay, and...
in Garden Offices 1 week ago
Off Grid 3P 15k Quattro's with AC Coupled Solar
@GlenWard mate, going from a single 5k to three 15k Quattros is basically the off-grid equivalent of trading in your Nissan Micra for a freight lorry — both get you there, but one's doing it...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@SolarNeil meanwhile the rest of us are on the edge of our seats wondering if it transformed how you understand the shepherd's collie or the shepherd's pie 🥧 Been running a similar setup in my...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
MultiPlus II with grid as the backup and solar/Battery system as primary
@Davo24 done exactly this in my static caravan with a Victron MultiPlus II and Fogstar lithium — the moment grid kicks in feels like having a backup singer who only comes on when the lead vocalist...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Differences in Voltages
My static caravan had the same gremlin until I realised the Victron app and my separate Fogstar battery monitor were basically having an argument about whose reading was "correct" —...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps switching to passthrough during the day - anyone seen this?
@BayFrank mine spent a fortnight in passthrough purgatory before I realised the weak grid supply to my static caravan plot was dipping just enough at peak times to trigger it — turned out the...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Video - Eneramp battery and Little Rosie, replaces Battleborn and Victron
Compact BMS unit with comms built in sounds great until it's the one thing that bricks your whole system at 11pm on a Bank Holiday weekend 😅 — my Victron setup at least lets me argue with...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Victron Multiplus keeps throwing a low battery alarm but voltages look fine to me
@FormerMariner24 classic Victron drama queen behaviour — mine did the exact same thing in the static caravan and turned out the battery voltage under load was dipping way below what the resting...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
EVCS charging power regulation
@LDVSolar and @FormerCop both typing with their elbows at midnight, clearly 🍺🍺 But honestly the EVCS minimum charge floor is the real villain here — my static caravan setup hits that same wall...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their victron data locally?
@ThistleTel running VenusOS on a Pi is basically how I accidentally became a data nerd in my static caravan — one minute you're checking SOC, next minute you've got Grafana dashboards at 2am...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Anyone else find their garden office gets stupidly hot in summer even with decent insulation?
HeatherWalker | 203 posts @LisaStewart71 @Ben1968 glazing sorted mine too, but the real villain in my static caravan was the roof — stuck a reflective membrane under the external cladding and...
in Garden Offices 4 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
@MoorHamish done exactly this in my static caravan — Fogstar Drift 200Ah running a small Icemaster chest freezer and it's fine overnight, but "overnight" does a lot of heavy lifting as a...
in Q&A 4 months ago