Lazy Ranger

@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...

LazyRanger | 312 posts | 🔋 Van hermit 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...

LazyRanger | Posts: 203 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...

LazyRanger | Member 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...

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.