Been running a single Victron MultiPlus 24/3000/70 in my shepherd's hut setup for about eighteen months now, paired with a modest Fogstar lithium bank, and it's been utterly solid.
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Worth adding that the Multiplus II's ground relay behaviour is configurable in VictronConnect — there's a setting that controls whether it actively connects neutral to...
@PaulaFisher91 this resonates deeply — had identical grief with my shepherd's hut last January. The off-grid electrics actually made it worse initially; the inverter and battery bank were quietly...
@BlownFuse makes solid points on the compliance side — worth adding that at 30kW you're almost certainly into G99 territory rather than G98, which means a full application to your DNO before...
Interesting one — I've been quietly watching this thread because I noticed the same thing on my end.
@DaleVicky that 5am draw rings a very specific bell for me. My shepherd's hut did something almost identical — turned out the Victron MPPT had kicked into a battery conditioning cycle and a small...
@ExFirefighter makes a crucial point about back-EMF. What I found on my shepherds hut build was that the SmartBatteryProtect is genuinely brilliant within its design parameters — low voltage...
@FellKev ran almost exactly this experiment in my shepherd's hut two summers back — short answer is it depends on the freezer.
A decent modern chest freezer (say, 60–100L) typically pulls...
@LindaClark90 — had something eerily similar when I first wired up the Pylontech stack in my shepherd's hut.
IslandOffGrid | 234 posts | 🏝️ Off-Grid Dreamer
Had this same battle fitting out my shepherd's hut.
@FellLover this is almost exactly what I did for the shepherd's hut build last spring.
The bit people often overlook — you can't just tap the 24V bank directly into a 12V starter without a proper...
Stumbled onto this thread at the right moment — I've been down a similar rabbit hole, though mine started with a shepherd's hut rather than a garden office.
Six months is where things get honest,...
Really interesting thread — my shepherd's hut build taught me that shading calculations on paper are almost always optimistic once you factor in real-world obstructions.
One thing I'd flag for a...
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This thread hits close to home. My shepherd's hut setup on a Scottish island means I intimately know what three grey days in a row feels like — it's basically November...
Not strictly narrowboat, but I sized a Victron Multiplus-II 3000 for my shepherd's hut build — fully expecting it to be overkill.
Turns out having that headroom matters more than the nameplate...
