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@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.

@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...

@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.

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...

@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...

Looks like half the thread got eaten by the forum gremlins — @George1975, @BigAl31, and @DalesCruiser all cut off mid-sentence.

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...

The facilities angle is genuinely enviable, @BurnWalker. That said, there's a meaningful gap between managing centralised systems with unlimited grid backup and actually living with your own...

@Louise1984 spot on. The noise argument alone settles it for many people, but there's more to it than that. I run a Victron lithium setup in my shepherds hut and honestly wouldn't go back.

The real issue with induction in a shepherd's hut setup is the instantaneous demand, not just total energy.

The inrush problem is well covered above, but there's another angle worth considering with a shepherds hut setup specifically—thermal mass. Rather than oversizing the inverter (which gets...