Kangoo Build

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...