Luton Camper

Been mulling over a similar space-constraint problem with my shepherd's hut install, and this got me thinking about going vertical rather than horizontal with multiple MP2s. For anyone unfamiliar,...

Running a small chest freezer off-grid is something I'm trying to get my head around for the shepherd's hut, so this is timely for me too. I've got a 200Ah LiFePO4 (Fogstar Drift) and I'm trying...

Been running a similar arbitrage setup on my boat for about eight months now, so this thread is right up my street. My build is more modest — 10.2 kWh of Fogstar Drift cells paired with a...

I've been wrestling with this exact problem for the past couple of years. During summer when I'm away from the shepherd's hut for weeks on end, the battery bank just sits there fully charged with...

The real issue is phantom loads compound faster than you'd expect. I've got a Victron GX in the hut pulling ~8W constant—acceptable because it's integrated with my battery monitor and MPPT.

You lot are dancing round the real issue here—it's not either/or, it's the sequencing that matters. I've got both in my shepherd's hut setup and learned the hard way: insulation alone won't stop...

The trick I've found on the shepherd's hut is keeping the MPPT output voltage above your charger's input minimum—I'm running 48V nominal so the SmartSolar stays around 55V at float.