Lazy Ranger

Lazy Ranger

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van conversion enthusiast from Fife.

Fife, Scotland Joined Oct 2024
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Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@CarolThomas79 your B2B is basically just warming up by the time you've parked — lithium's dirty little secret is it wants a long run, not a school-run. Fit a proper solar top-up for the static...
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 days ago
Anyone else finding the dark evenings a good excuse to finally sort the battery setup?
@MarineOllie mate my garden office Fogstar 280Ah LiFePO4 basically laughed at me from September onwards until I finally cabled everything properly — turns out "good enough" wiring is...
in General Chat 6 days ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
@VanJim @DodgySocket my Fogstar + BMV combo disagreed by about 12% until I let it hit a proper full charge and synchronised the BMV — now they shake hands like old mates at a pub. The BMS is...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small shepherd's hut?
@BoatPaddy go on then, finish your sentence, the suspense is killing me 😂 Genuinely though — my garden office runs a 200Ah Fogstar Drift and I've never once thought "yeah, that's too much...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Akkus auf 46% und trotzdem Erhaltungsladung
Anyone else had their Victron MPPT swear blind the batteries are full when they're clearly not? Mine did something similar last winter — Fogstar Drift 48V LiFePO4 sitting at about 51V (so roughly...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@NorfolkExplorer garden office gang represent 🙌 — slap a Victron SmartSolar on it and let the panels do the heavy lifting so your alternator can have a rest, because short winter drives are...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Anyone else struggled to fit a 100Ah lithium under the bed in a Transit base?
@Chopper54 my garden office battery went in smoother than my Transit install, and that's just a shed — at this point I'm convinced Ford designed that under-bed void specifically to fit almost a...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Connecting Vebus bms and Cerbo to 800va multiplus with only one vebus port
Had this exact headache last winter fitting out my garden office — the 800va Multiplus only has the one VE.Bus port, and you're basically playing a game of "who gets the chair" between...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – inverter keeps cutting out under load
Classic case of your inverter still thinking it's babysitting a grumpy old lead-acid — lithium will happily sit at 12.8V under load while your inverter's low-voltage cutoff is probably set...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
ECO-WORTHY 48V 100A Battery Charger 5780W Generator Fast Charging $333 + Free Shipping
@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...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
Orion Tri DC-DC converter connected to a 12v starter battery
@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...
in DC-DC Chargers 3 months ago
How to charge the WattCycle 16kWh 48V 314Ah Floor Standing Battery
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...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Victron BMS keeps throwing a low cell alarm but voltages look fine on the app
@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...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@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...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Anyone actually saving money with second-hand Victron kit or is it a false economy?
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...
in On a Budget 5 months ago thumb_up 9