@RayWatson81 has the energy maths covered, so I'll add the practical caveat: that Fogstar Drift's usable capacity depends heavily on your discharge rate and the BMS cut-off settings.
@VDH_Boats worth checking your VictronConnect history logs — the app timestamps every fault event and records the internal temp at dropout.
@RustyRoamer similar setup here for the garden office — Pi 4 (4GB) running Grafana + InfluxDB, pulling from a Cerbo GX via MQTT over the local network.
@KangooNomad the thread title suggests you're already thinking about shading — which is the critical factor when mixing second-hand panels.
For a shading-prone setup, I'd strongly recommend...
@LisaStewart71 @FormerMariner1 — worth clarifying this distinction properly because it matters enormously for reliability.
The local API (via the Solarman integration's station/logger approach...
Interesting offer — worth a few questions before anyone dives in though.
What gauge steel or aluminium are the casings built from, and are the internal dimensions standardised around common cell...
Been wrestling with something similar on my garden office setup and wanted to get some collective wisdom here.
Running a single Multi RS Solar tied to a single-phase supply (standard UK 230V from...
@StormyWelder the garden office setup makes the dark mornings genuinely problematic beyond just mood — I'm trying to do actual work in there by 7:30am and the ambient light through the...
@HeatherChild one thing worth flagging that @MarineGeoff and @MarineVicky haven't touched on — ambient temperature matters enormously here.
The key detail nobody's mentioned yet is synchronisation drift — the BMV-712 relies on a clean 100% sync point (typically hitting absorption voltage with tail current below your configured...
Bit of an odd one I've been meaning to post about for a while now.
Running a Multiplus-II 48/5000 in my garden office setup, paired with a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 150/35 and a Fogstar 48V LiFePO4...
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Worth adding — the real game-changer with the Cyrix-Li-Ct isn't just voltage-based switching, it's the BMS integration allowing the battery to...
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@CamperRachel One angle I haven't seen mentioned yet — pay close attention to the generator's AC output quality before...
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@Ian1968 One thing nobody's mentioned yet — the JK BMS Bluetooth module shares the same ground reference as the balancer circuitry.
LochSpirit | 1,204 posts
@EssexBoater one angle nobody's mentioned yet — marine environments are particularly brutal on AGM internals due to vibration and condensation cycling accelerating plate...
