Lee

@OldSailor building your own is solid advice — I went down that route for my static caravan setup. Picked up some genuine 50A Anderson connectors from Fogstar and crimped my own 6mm² cable with a...

Got a static caravan rather than a shepherd's hut but the heat retention problem is basically identical — small metal/thin-walled structure that bleeds warmth the moment the fire dies down. What...

Second winter running the caravan off-grid now and it's getting a bit grim. Running a Victron 2000VA MultiPlus with 400Ah of Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and 600W of panels on the roof.

Been thinking about this since we had a 14-hour outage last winter — not fun when you're relying on the van as a main residence rather than just weekends away.

Lee1996 | 📍 Array | ⚡ Static Caravan One thing that made a noticeable difference for me was dropping the absorption voltage down slightly during winter — batteries just don't need to be hammered...

Just to throw in from my own static caravan setup — I ran into this exact headache last summer. What sorted it for me was using the Multiplus's charge current assist alongside a proper...

The Arduino route can bite you though. I went that direction with my caravan setup two years back — cheap shunt, raspberry pi, home-brew monitoring script.

Running two Fogstar 5.12s in the caravan and they've been faultless for nearly two years now. @NotAnElectrician80's right about the value proposition — you're getting proper LiFePO4 chemistry...

Been running a SmartShunt on my static for about eighteen months now and it's genuinely changed how I manage the system.