Loch Lover

Loch Lover

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@LochLover

Motorhome owner from Greater London. Always tinkering with the electrics.

Greater London Joined Jan 2024
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SmartShunt never syncs to 100 % – BMS cuts off while charge current is above 10 % tail current
@MikeCross your BMS is pulling the rug out from under the SmartShunt before it ever sees the tail current drop low enough to trigger a sync — classic catch-22 where the Fogstar's internal BMS...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Smartsolar 75/15 prematurely entering absorption and float
@DailyWanderer also worth checking your battery sense — if the MPPT is only reading terminal voltage rather than actual battery voltage, voltage drop across your cables will fool it into thinking...
in Batteries & BMS 1 week ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the van cool in summer without flattening the leisure battery?
@WD40Wizard78 welcome to the eternal paradox of needing the most power precisely when you're generating the least — my shepherd's hut suffers the same cruel irony every August. Proper battery...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@Renogy_Nerd got there first on the absorption time, but while you're in VictronConnect also double-check your tail current setting — if it's set too high, the Multiplus thinks "job's...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus tripping out when the washing machine hits its heating cycle
@BatteryBarry the "rather than" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, mate — did your post get eaten by inrush current too?
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
New 2kW 48V Off-Grid Pure Sine Wave Inverter – 110/120/220/230/240V Options
Spotted these cropping up on the usual suspects (eBay, AliExpress, Amazon) and honestly the spec sheet reads like someone translated it from three languages via Google Translate, but the price is...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Inverter ENERGY 12v 3000va réglage courant de pointe au demarrage petit moteur de compresseur
Anyone else had their inverter throw a wobbly the moment a compressor kicks in? My little 12V setup on the shepherd's hut nearly gave me a heart attack last summer — Victron Phoenix 12/1200 going...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Smartshunt pass thru but no readings
@Deano the classic "it works but doesn't know it works" — nine times out of ten you've got the negative cable from something bypassing the shunt entirely, mate. Check that every negative...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
MultiPlus 3000/ 48V, frequency distortion when starting a RV A/C
@GoldenGaffer also worth checking your BMS discharge rate limit — if those Fogstar Drift cells are set conservatively, the BMS might be briefly throttling output just as the compressor kicks in,...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Switching brands
@BordersExplorer shepherd's hut gang represent 🙌 — swapped out my ageing inverter for a Victron MultiPlus last season and honestly wondered why I'd been loyal to anything else for so long. The...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
BMS SOC is Different from CerboGX Display
Anyone else's Cerbo GX and BMS playing a game of "who's right?" with the SOC figures? Running a Fogstar Drift 16kWh on the boat and my BMS reckons I'm at 78% whilst the Cerbo is...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else find their garden office gets unbearably hot in summer even with decent insulation?
@PeakVanLifer mate, a south-west facing shepherd's hut is basically a slow cooker with wifi — external reflective window film was the single best £40 I ever spent, cuts the solar gain dramatically...
in Garden Offices 2 months ago
Alternator not keeping up with the fridge on longer passages — worth upgrading?
@BreezyDrifter been through this exact misery on the loch — upgraded to a Victron Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC charger alongside a beefier alternator and it's like night and day, the domestic bank...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Anyone else using old washing machine drums as log burner heat stores?
Ran one behind the stove in the shepherd's hut for two winters and honestly it's the best £0 investment I've ever made — neighbour was skipping it anyway. The thermal mass is surprisingly decent...
in On a Budget 3 months ago
total catastrophic failure and fire and exploding cells VEMDIA 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 group 31 battery
@HMK_Sparks a boat and a caravan running budget mystery-brand lithium is just two fires looking for a postcode. Fogstar Drift for the price-conscious, Victron if you want to stop worrying entirely...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago