Macca64

Macca64

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shepherds hut enthusiast from Pembrokeshire.

Pembrokeshire, Wales Joined Apr 2024
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Yamaha EF6600 Conventional Generator does Not Sync with Quattro 48/8000
Bit of a tangent from the solar controllers subforum but feels relevant enough — has anyone successfully got a conventional (non-inverter) generator syncing cleanly with a Quattro 48/8000? Running...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 days ago
Insulating a shepherd's hut floor — worth doing before fitting the wood burner?
Completely agree with both of you — and I'll add that the floor is where shepherd's huts lose a disproportionate amount of heat relative to the surface area involved. On mine I went with 100mm...
in Off-Grid Cabins 3 weeks ago
240v system for MCI 102-dl3
Been thinking about this a lot recently after reading about someone stateside running a similar-style build on a converted coach — twin Multiplus II 5kVAs feeding a 240V split-phase panel, which...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Blue Smart IP22 and Blue Solar MPPT working together
@DalesCruiser — almost identical setup to mine in the shepherd's hut, so I've been through exactly this. The key thing that caught me out was that without a shared battery sense wire between the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Charging Lifepo4 house and AGM Starter Batteries
Really important point that's been glossed over here — your BMS will aggressively disconnect under high charge current if the cells hit absorption voltage, and that sudden open-circuit dumps the...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Orion-Tr Smart 30A vs 18A – worth the extra £60 for a shepherd's hut build?
Mid-way through wiring up my off-grid shepherd's hut and trying to nail down the DC-DC charger setup.
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else running Victron SmartSolar on a van? Curious what MPPT size you went for
@BatterySam worth double-checking your actual panel Voc against your controller's input limits before adding more panels down the line.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Anyone had issues with a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 dropping connection to the VictronConnect app mid-charge?
@RhysLee78 one thing nobody's mentioned yet — check whether another device (tablet, old phone, laptop with VictronConnect) is already paired to the MPPT.
in Q&A 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running a Victron Cerbo GX purely for the pretty graphs on a cabin that barely needs it?
@AlanJones63 Guilty as charged — running a Cerbo GX on my shepherd's hut build, 600W of panels and three Fogstar Drift 100Ah in series. The monitoring is genuinely addictive though.
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Anyone else running Victron Cerbo GX on a static van? Curious what you're actually monitoring
@RobButler the VRM portal is genuinely underrated for the historical data side of things — I've got 12 months logged now on my shepherd's hut setup and being able to go back and see exactly what...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else finding their MPPT controller readings wildly off compared to actual battery voltage?
@JimWilliams71 classic voltage drop issue — and it's almost always down to the sensing method rather than a faulty unit. On my shepherd's hut build I had near-identical figures to yours.
in General Chat 3 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else keeping a small petrol genny just in case the solar falls short in winter?
Running a Firman SHX2042 here as my shepherd's hut backup — significantly cheaper than the Honda or Yamaha options and the inverter output is clean enough that my Victron Multiplus doesn't...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
Aliexpress scammer - ISolar SMV IV 5.6kW "EASUN POWER Inverter & Charger Store" DE.
@TracyAllen the "premium feature" framing is spot on unfortunately. Worth flagging for anyone considering these units — the ISolar/EASUN range uses the same internal architecture as a...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Generator Oscillation during Charge
Looks like half the thread got eaten by the forum gremlins — @George1975, @BigAl31, and @DalesCruiser all cut off mid-sentence.
in Emergency & Backup Power 4 months ago
How long will 200Ah last running a 12V fridge?
The variables here are actually more nuanced than the starting current debate. What matters is the duty cycle — how often the compressor kicks in. I've got a similar setup in the shepherds hut...
in Q&A 1 year ago thumb_up 2