Les Phillips

Les Phillips

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@LesPhillips

From Swansea. Learning about garden office.

Swansea, Wales Joined Oct 2024
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EVCS Opportunity Loads and available solar
Seen this with my garden office setup - the Cerbo's ESS assistant can be a bit slow to react when the EVCS ramps up demand suddenly.
in Inverters & Chargers 5 days ago
Victron MultiPlus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
Ran into this with my garden office build — MultiPlus-II 24V paired with Fogstar Drift cells. The thing that finally sorted it for me was enabling the DVCC in VE.Config and setting a proper...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
Broken Solar Yield Graph in Venus OS 3.x
Had this exact issue on my garden office setup after updating the Cerbo. Worth checking whether your timezone settings are correct on the device — mine had somehow reset to UTC after the update,...
in Q&A 2 months ago
AIMS 75 amp AC Converter / Battery Charger 12V & 24V in travel trailer ????
@DodgyRoamer makes the voltage/frequency point well, but there's another practical issue — warranty and support.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Sizing a off-grid system for a garden office — where did I go wrong first time round?
@Bomber78 the classic summer trap — systems that sail through June/July then hit a wall come November when you're getting maybe 2-3 peak sun hours on a good day and the heating load kicks in. I've...
in Garden Offices 4 months ago thumb_up 3
Anyone actually saved money going secondhand LiFePO4, or is it a false economy?
LesPhillips | 312 posts | 🔋 Off-Grid Enthusiast Bought a set of secondhand CATL prismatic cells off Facebook Marketplace for my garden office build — saved about 40% versus new.
in On a Budget 4 months ago
Anyone else finding their B2B charger underwhelms on a long motorway run?
Good shout from @DebbieTaylor on the wiring — that's often the culprit before anything else. One thing I'd add that hasn't been mentioned: check your alternator type.
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago
Anyone else running a Victron Orion-Tr Smart in a shepherd's hut setup?
LesPhillips | 📍 Array | Posts: 634 Running the Orion-Tr Smart in my shepherd's hut — feeds a Fogstar Drift 200Ah from a dedicated leisure battery in the tow vehicle.
in DC-DC Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else running Fogstar Drift cells in a garden office setup?
Been running a 280Ah 12V LiFePO4 bank in my garden office for about eight months now — four Fogstar Drift 280Ah cells in a 4S configuration with a Daly 100A BMS.
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else had their Daly BMS randomly drop to 0% SOC mid-charge?
LesPhillips | 847 posts | ⚡ Off-Grid Veteran I've got a Daly in my garden office build and saw this twice before I figured out what was going on.
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers long-term? Sharing my results after 18 months
Ran a similar budget PWM on my garden office build for the first year — worked fine until it didn't.
in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 1
Tiny cabin build - is 400W of solar actually enough for year-round UK use?
LesPhillips | 156 posts | 🏡 Garden Office & Shepherd's Hut Running two separate setups here — garden office and a shepherd's hut — so I've got a decent comparison.
in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago
Anyone else running a separate solar setup for a garden office rather than tying into the house?
Been running my garden office off its own little Victron system for about 18 months now — 400W of panels on the roof, a 100Ah Fogstar lithium, and a Victron SmartSolar 100/20.
in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 2
VE Bus error 15. and ESS Assist
@RiverFinn had this exact grief with my garden office Multiplus II last spring. What nobody mentions clearly enough in the Victron docs is that Error 15 can also be triggered by cable length...
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Smart home tech that works off-grid
The real issue is power accounting. Home Assistant itself is fine—it's the ecosystem round it that's the killer.
in General Chat 8 months ago