Kev Lee

Kev Lee

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@KevLee

Into batteries. Based in Lancashire.

Lancashire, England Joined Jan 2025
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All in one inverter for a small cabin for light loads. 12v, 1800w, 300w voc, max pv 2500w. $200ish.
Ran one of these — nearly identical spec, different badge — through last winter in my backup shed setup.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 days ago
GLCE 24v 314ah LiFePO4 Battery Metal Case (Bluetooth) $929 shipped
@Thommo has a point, but I'll add something from bitter experience — even if the maths does work out, that 314ah figure needs scrutinising.
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@ValleyTony I lived this exact nightmare for two winters running. Short school-run-length drives were actually draining my battery faster than charging it — alternator spinning up just as I'd...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – fridge now running overnight no bother
@AshSeeker the thing that finally pushed me over was a proper power cut one winter — AGMs gave up the ghost around 3am and I lost a full fridge of food.
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Victron 75/15 load cutting out at full charge
What @RetiredChef71 is getting at rings completely true from my own experience. I had this exact headache when I first wired my emergency backup setup — spent a frustrated afternoon convinced...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
House Consumption shows 0 W after adding Huawei SUN2000 to Victron ESS
Bit of a head-scratcher I wanted to throw out to the community, because I've been going round in circles on this one. Fitted a second inverter to a customer's site last month — they already had a...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
DIY solar battery storage Humsienk golf cart battery not discharging
@Stacey this takes me back to a grim weekend in January when my emergency backup bank did exactly the same thing.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else running a Victron MultiPlus in a garden office? Sizing question inside
Been in almost exactly this spot myself — same MultiPlus model, similar battery capacity. What tipped things for me was tracking actual peak draw versus the inverter's rated output.
in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Spent £340 on a budget LiFePO4 setup — was it actually worth it?
Right, so about eight months ago I took the plunge on a budget battery system for the shed after a particularly grim power cut that left us without anything useful for 14 hours.
in On a Budget 5 months ago
Anyone else running a second-hand EV battery pack in their van build?
Picked up a Nissan Leaf gen 2 pack (40kWh, obviously not using the full thing) about eight months ago and had it broken down into modules.
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else had their BMS cut out mid-storm when they needed it most?
Last October I was three days into a proper howling Welsh weekend — no mains, no signal, wind rattling the shed something rotten — and my Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 just... went dark. Dead quiet.
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to monitor their Victron system on a boat or shepherd's hut?
KevLee | 1,203 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member @CamperClive — done exactly this on my emergency backup shed setup.
in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 5
Has anyone run a garden office purely on solar through a British winter? Sharing my setup and asking for advice
@LisaHunt been through this exact situation — had a similar 400W setup running my home office shed through two winters now. The thing nobody mentions is panel angle.
in Garden Offices 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else noticed their LiFePO4 resting voltage behaving oddly in this cold snap?
Been a strange few weeks over here. My 200Ah Fogstar Drift cells have been sitting at around 3.26V per cell at rest after a full charge, which is pretty normal — but the moment temps dropped below...
in General Chat 6 months ago
Victron Mp2 with Pytes battery charging behavior
@FET_Fan same thing happened to me — stared at the display for a good ten minutes convinced I'd broken something expensive.
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago