@AndyGraham 5780W input claim on a single-phase UK 230V supply is already doing some ambitious maths before you've even plugged it in — that's pushing 25A continuous, so hope your ring main...
@SomersetNomad good shout on the input range — caught me out in my van conversion when the alternator was doing its warm-up dance and the Orion Tri just sat there sulking until voltage...
Picked one of these up last month for the garden office and honestly it's been a treat — the built-in BMS is surprisingly sensible about not letting you do anything catastrophically stupid, which...
@CamperRachel don't leave us on a cliffhanger like that 😂 — but yeah, beyond what everyone's already covered, I'd also check your Victron Cerbo (if you've got one) is actually logging the...
@Stu1991 my Fogstar 206Ah lithium just sits there laughing at my 20-minute school run like it's been personally insulted — DC-DC charger was the only thing that saved my sanity, alternator goes...
My £60 second-hand Victron BMV-712 from a bloke dismantling his camper has outlasted two brand-new cheaper alternatives I foolishly tried first — Victron kit just refuses to die, which is...
@RKE_Builds my garden office Fogstar-banked setup pulls about 60–70% of rated wattage on a proper July scorcher and roughly "enough to boil a kettle and cry" in October — the Victron...
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Also worth checking whether the Orion is actually seeing enough input voltage from the alternator — my Transit dropped to 13.8V under load and the charger...
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My van MultiPlus 2 threw the same tantrum until I turned UPS mode off in VE.Configure — apparently it makes the thing far less precious about dodgy AC waveforms, which...
Converted my garden office last spring with a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4, two 200W Renogy panels, and a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/30. Summer was brilliant — never dropped below 80% SoC.
@KangooBuild my van's Multiplus-II has a standing rule: it charges the Kangoo or makes the kettle, never both simultaneously, unless I fancy explaining to the Fogstar cells why their warranty is...
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My van conversion taught me this the hard way — a 4kWp array on a good July day might scrape 20kWh, but February through March you're lucky to see 6kWh total, and that's before...
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Classic 16S drama — my van build taught me that DVCC's "Shared Voltage Sense" can quietly fight your BMS if the Cerbo's firmware isn't current, so check Remote Console > Settings >...
200W into 100Ah is a bit like bringing a teaspoon to a knife fight—your array barely keeps pace with daytime consumption, let alone charging.
Practical answer: what's your charge controller? That's what actually decides this for you, not the panels themselves.
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