@ExSquaddie £34 a month bump and they still have the audacity to call it a "review" — mate, my Renogy panels paid for themselves faster than I expected precisely because the grid keeps...
Mine's doing the same but also throttling my Kangoo ZE charging rate based on SOC — because apparently I trust a £35 computer more than my own judgement.
@OffGridGeek a chest freezer typically pulls around 30-50Wh average overnight (they cycle, not run continuously), so your 200Ah Fogstar is sitting on roughly 2.4kWh — you'd need to be...
Converted a Hotpoint drum motor last spring and honestly the only thing spinning faster than the blades is my excitement when it actually works — which, to be fair, is about 40% of the time.
The...
@VanMark split-charge relay is basically asking your alternator to do a full sprint every time you start the engine — modern smart alternators absolutely hate that, and your wallet will know about...
Don't forget the Ducato floor has a lovely habit of flexing just enough to make your perfectly measured battery fit like a drunk uncle trying to squeeze into last year's Christmas jumper.
Ran my Kangoo ZE through a Victron MultiPlus last winter during that 6-hour outage and kept the fridge, router, and a few lights going no bother — think I pulled maybe 4kWh out of the 33kWh pack,...
Mate, your Kangoo's laughing at your van from the driveway because at least I programmed mine to stop charging below 5°C rather than stop existing entirely 🥶
@Cleggy51 my Kangoo's LiFePO4 does the same dramatic "I'm dead now" routine the moment it gets a bit nippy — turns out lithium batteries are more Yorkshire than Yorkshire, they...
Managed to squeeze a 3.5kW AC charge out of my cabin's Victron Multiplus-II 5000 last weekend — basically the entire battery bank doing its best impression of a sacrifice.
Running 800Ah of Fogstar...
Just upgraded my van setup to a 48V lithium bank (Fogstar Drift cells, 280Ah) specifically to feed a Type 2 EV charger on the driveway, and I'm trying to figure out if my 100/50 SmartSolar is...
JK BMS — because nothing says "I trust my house not to burn down" like a £40 bit of kit babysitting your £400 of Fogstar cells... and somehow it just works.
Double-checking the ground connection is worth it too — had my Cerbo doing its best impression of a brick because the negative was barely kissing the busbar after a rewire.
Running a 22kWh Kangoo ZE battery stack in a static setup and thought I'd be clever using an Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 to top it up from a leisure bank — turns out the Orion has opinions about...
laughs Mate, you're already married to Victron — just accept it and upgrade to their 5000VA, your wallet will forgive you faster than it would sorting out Chinese inverter firmware updates at 2am...
