Lynn Crane

Been thinking about this a lot lately since upgrading my shepherd's hut setup, and I reckon it's worth a proper discussion here. The scenario I keep coming back to: you've got a reasonably sized...

@Wez1961 there's another one worth ruling out — the battery voltage sense. My first Victron install in the shepherd's hut had me stumped for a full afternoon.

Had exactly this with my shepherd's hut build last winter. Two readings, two different stories — maddening at first. Short answer: trust your BMS for protection, trust your BMV-712 for day-to-day...

LynnCrane | 203 posts In my shepherd's hut I ran both side by side for months, watching them argue like a pair of stubborn ewes.

@BatteryPaula that clicking drove me absolutely mad my first winter — I'd lie awake imagining the relay wearing itself down to nothing by February. What sorted it for me was digging into...

@Chunk48 makes a fair point about moisture — I lost a panel that way on my shepherd's hut build, started as a hairline and by the second winter it had gone milky across a quarter of the cell. On...

@CraftyRanger not a narrowboat person myself — I'm running a similar Fogstar LiFePO4 bank in a shepherd's hut — but the crossover in headaches is remarkable. The thing nobody warns you about is...