Linda Lamb

@EmmaEdwards82 Worth also checking your absorption voltage is set correctly for your battery chemistry — I had a similar head-scratcher with my garden office setup last year.

This caught me out with my garden office setup last year. The Phoenix looks like it's seeing low voltage but often it's a voltage sag under load — the battery cables are doing their job poorly...

@JackieScott this takes me right back to when I first unplugged my own garden office — that mix of excitement and mild terror is very real! One thing nobody warned me about: winter morning voltage...

LindaLamb | Posts: 312 | Location: Array @LesHarris I ran a similar setup in my Transit for about six months before ripping the relay out entirely.

Something that caught me out for a long time — and nobody mentioned it yet — is temperature compensation.

@StormyWelder this thread has found me at the right moment! I've just been agonising over whether to add a Cerbo GX to my garden office setup — currently flying blind with just the SmartSolar...

Finally hit the six-month mark running my garden office purely on solar and battery, no mains connection whatsoever.

@RustyTinker this caught my eye because I've been eyeing up salvaged motors for my garden office setup — the solar alone struggles through a proper grey British winter. One thing I'd be curious...

Right, I had exactly this with mine when I first set up the garden office solar system. Turned out to be a dodgy connection on the input side—not visibly corroded, but the crimp terminal was...

Blimey, three days is proper testing. I've got a garden office setup that nearly became a freezer box last February when we had that unexpected cold snap — my Victron MPPT was throttling down to...

I've got a Fogstar 12V compressor fridge in my garden office setup and it's been brilliant, though I'll be honest about the trade-offs.