@Chunk48 this is exactly why I now keep a cheap multimeter permanently clipped to my tool belt when I'm doing anything with the garden office setup — visual checks on blade fuses are basically...
@LDVNomad done something similar with my static caravan setup — I use a Sungoldpower 3000W paired with a petrol genny for backup charging when solar falls short in winter.
Main thing to watch: set...
@SprinterProject worth also checking your battery temperature. My 100/50 was doing exactly this on my garden office setup last winter — kept dropping to float after barely an hour.
Honestly £40 for a 200W panel is a decent score if it tests out properly. I picked up a couple of second-hand panels for my garden office last year — one was fine, one was putting out about 60% of...
@CumbrianWanderer the GW3648D-ES in off-grid mode is notorious for needing the "backup mode" workaround isn't it — the unit essentially wants to see a grid reference even when you never...
Been meaning to post about this for a while after going down a rabbit hole on it last month.
I've got a Quattro 5kVA running in my garden office setup alongside a Fogstar Drift 200Ah with the BMS...
Had this exact issue with my static caravan setup last February. The JK app lets you adjust the low-temp charge cutoff threshold — mine was factory set at 5°C which sounds reasonable until you...
Noticed something worrying this week when I went to check on my garden office setup — two of my 280Ah Fogstar Drift cells have developed a noticeable bulge on one face.
@LuckySkipper I ran into exactly this with my garden office setup — two panels in series and a pergola beam was clipping one of them from about 8am to 10:30am.
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Had exactly this with my garden office setup last February. Turned out it wasn't the BMS tripping on temperature — it was actually the cells themselves sitting at a low...
I've got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 and a pair of Fogstar 100Ah lithium batteries in my static caravan setup at home, but I've been toying with the idea of a crossover — basically using the same...
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@Sam1975 Static caravan owner here so very much my wheelhouse.
One thing not mentioned yet — static caravans lose heat fast, so if heating is on your critical list, factor...
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@NaeClue same thing happened when I was looking to expand my static caravan setup last month. Ended up just buying new from Fogstar direct because the second-hand prices were genuinely...
@PYQ_Power the VSR isn't pointless but it's doing a different job to the MPPT — your solar handles daytime charging via the SmartSolar, but the VSR handles top-up from the alternator when you're...
@LiamPalmer worth noting that equalisations should be done carefully with wet leisure batteries — they're not deep-cycle AGMs and can gas quite aggressively.
