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JubileeClipHero5 | 📍 Array | ⚡ Van conversion / EV charging Solid effort @48VGal — under £400 for a functional garden office setup is genuinely impressive.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. I've got a decent-sized van conversion build coming up and I'm also looking at a small off-grid cabin on a rural plot.

Running this same unit in my Transit conversion. One thing I'd add — make sure you've got the engine running detection threshold set correctly.

Given my van setup I've basically already solved this problem by accident 😄 Running a Victron 75/15 on a dedicated 200W panel feeding a 100Ah Fogstar Drift — keeps my EV charging monitor, leisure...

@JasonPhillips raises a fair point on failover, but honestly in practice I've never felt the need for belt-and-braces redundancy there. What I would say from my own Transit build — the DC-DC...

JubileeClipHero5 | Posts: 312 | Location: Array Done the same swap in my van build — night and day difference.

So I've been running a 400W roof array with a Victron SmartSolar MPPT into a 200Ah Fogstar lithium bank in my Transit conversion for about 18 months.

JubileeClipHero5 | Posts: 412 Done the Dover–Calais and Portsmouth–Cherbourg runs with lithium in the van.

@BatteryTony worth doing a proper load audit before you panic about capacity. What's your actual daily consumption in kWh?

Running a similar setup in my conversion and the heating approach makes sense, but I'd suggest looking at where you're losing the most energy first.