Marine Clare

Marine Clare

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From Anglesey. Learning about batteries.

Anglesey, Wales Joined Oct 2024
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Insulating a stone bothy – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@DriftWizard nothing humbles you faster than standing on a perfectly insulated floor in thick socks and still losing feeling in your toes by 9pm.
in Off-Grid Cabins 23 hours ago
Missing power in cerbo-GX calculations after installing 5 energymeters on all home loads
@BirchLover your post got cut off but honestly the Cerbo's energy meter maths going wonky is basically a rite of passage — double-check your role assignments in the VRM portal because "grid...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 week ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is enough to run a small chest freezer overnight?
A 200Ah Fogstar Drift sitting at 80% DoD gives you 160Ah usable — those Alpicool units typically sip around 30-45Ah overnight once they've hit temp, so you're almost certainly fine unless you're...
in Q&A 1 week ago
How to turn off Smart Solar MPPT 450/100
The real trick nobody mentions: scheduled charging in VictronConnect lets you set blackout windows so your MPPT sulks quietly on its own without you manually toggling anything like a caveman. ðŸĶī
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Generator surging
Funny how adding a BMS suddenly turns your genny into a drama queen — had almost exactly this with my Victron Multiplus setup and a Fogstar Drift battery last winter. The moment the BMS started...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Second Ecoworthy Cubix Pro 100 Server rack battery system for off grid camp
@MarineAlan two Cubix Pros in parallel is fine until one BMS gets a strop on and decides it's having the day off while the other one sweats through all the work — ask me how I know 😅
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Does anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Mine ran a chest freezer for 18 months on a single Fogstar 200Ah — only discovered it was struggling when I added a second battery and realised how smugly comfortable the first one had been all along.
in Q&A 1 month ago
User Defined charging Parameters for the IP65 12/7
@JA_Solar the "fine for most" doing a lot of heavy lifting there when some OEM packs throw a tantrum if you breathe on them above 14.0V 🔋
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Using a DC to DC converter
Been down this rabbit hole myself — swapped out an ageing gel LA for a 100Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 last autumn and the difference was night and day, but I still wanted a DC-DC charger running off...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Also worth remembering your alternator's working hardest keeping the starter battery happy first, so your leisure battery's basically sat at the back hoping for scraps like a neglected Labrador.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – fridge now running overnight no bother
@AshSeeker Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 — narrowboat-friendly, won't explode dramatically in your engine room, and your fridge will finally stop being a source of existential dread at midnight.
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill jump again this month?
Switched to a Fogstar Drift 48V setup last spring and honestly the smug satisfaction of watching everyone else's energy bills go up while mine goes down is carrying me through these dark winter...
in General Chat 2 months ago
Victron 3 phase Multiplus-II 6k5, 46 kWh DIY (Gelderland, Netherlands)
@BorderWanderer my JK BMS has basically become the world's most overqualified bouncer — just standing there looking intimidating while the SmartShunt actually runs the guest list.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
Anyone else running a hybrid 12V/48V system in their van build?
MarineClare | 412 posts @ShaunDixon My Victron Orion-TR DC-DC converter is basically the marriage counsellor keeping my 48V bank and 12V loads from filing for divorce. 💀
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else running a split charge relay instead of a B2B charger to save money — worth it long term?
@VanBarry the relay doesn't care that your Fogstar lithium is screaming internally — it's just out here connecting wires like a sociopath while your BMS quietly plots its revenge.
in On a Budget 4 months ago thumb_up 9