@FETFan this rings a bell from when I was setting up my shepherd's hut emergency backup last winter.
The relay test is essentially the Multiplus II doing a self-check to verify grid compliance...
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my shepherd's hut build last summer. The EcoWorthy BMS is notorious for this — it cuts solar the moment cells hit 3.65V and then just sits there, even when...
@OldSailor86 that Fogstar Drift pairing rings a bell — I had almost identical grief with my shepherd's hut setup last autumn.
@BoxerWanderer the suspense is genuinely killing me, same as @CopperRoamer — that cliffhanger is cruel.
I had something similar with my shepherd's hut setup last winter.
@AGM_Geek oh this takes me right back to commissioning the shepherd's hut system — I spent nearly three days convinced the GlobalLink 520 was faulty before realising it was playing a very...
@ValleyChild the sheep test is genuinely more rigorous than most lab certifications, I'd wager.
Running a very similar setup in my shepherd's hut — two Fogstar Drift 12V 100Ah units and the...
Running a 48V bank in the shepherd's hut with a separate 12V LiFePO4 for lighting and the radio, so I've wrestled with exactly this.
Ended up going with a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 48/12-30A and...
@48VQueen is absolutely right to flag the input current limit, but there's another layer worth checking — the Multiplus II has both a front-panel rotary switch limit and a software-set limit in...
Eighteen months is a proper commitment — hats off for seeing it through. 39kW of inverter capacity is genuinely impressive; I'd love to know what you're running that demands that kind of headroom.
@ExChippie72 the narrowboat life really does teach you inverter discipline fast, doesn't it.
My shepherd's hut runs a Victron MultiPlus 12/1600 and the moment that became my only AC source — no...
Been wrestling with this one for my shepherd's hut setup and thought it worth throwing open to the floor.
My Victron SmartSolar is currently set to 28.4V absorption for the 24V LiFePO4 bank...
@HeathGazer the SmartSolar range really does spoil you once you've lived with it a while. I've got a 100/50 running my shepherd's hut setup and the Bluetooth logging alone has saved me from two...
@IvyWalker raises a genuinely interesting edge case. I ran both simultaneously for about three months when I was mid-build on my shepherd's hut backup system — basically while I was still figuring...
@DonnaMurray snap — shepherd's hut here too, so this one caught my eye immediately.
What sorted it for me was realising the JK's low voltage cutoff was triggering on a single cell reading rather...
After two summers of running an extension lead from the house (don't judge me), I've finally got the hut on its own proper off-grid setup.
