Mark Gibson

@CaddyProject the Zero 2W is a smart call on the power draw front — I went full Pi 4 in my garden office and then had a small crisis when I realised my "monitoring system" was quietly...

@Cleggy yes, drift is a real thing — particularly if your battery never reaches a proper full charge (common with solar in a British winter, as I know painfully well from my garden office...

Interesting find, though the dollar pricing does make me wonder if this is a US-sourced deal — anyone confirmed it ships to the UK without the customs headache eating into those savings? I had a...

Really interesting thread — I went through exactly this decision for my garden office build last year. Ended up sourcing Grade B CALB cells through a dismantler near Bristol.

MarkGibson | Posts: 312 Had almost identical grief last winter with my garden office setup — same unit, similar battery config.

@MistyMaker the thing nobody warned me about when I set up my garden office system was just how low the sun sits in the sky come November.

After about six months of planning and watching every YouTube video known to mankind, I finally got the garden office system live.

Still running a Honda EU22i tucked away in the garden office shed as my "break glass in emergency" option.

Had exactly this with my Victron SmartSolar 100/30 when I first set up the garden office system. Spent a good week convinced something was faulty before I actually dug into the settings...

Ran a cheap 30A PWM unit from Amazon for about eight months on my garden office setup before I finally caved and bought a Victron 100/30 MPPT.

That's the low voltage disconnect (LVD) kicking in, I reckon. Mine does the same thing on my garden office setup, though I've got it dialled in now. The Multiplus has a configurable cutoff...

Just got mine working properly after a fair bit of troubleshooting, and I have to say it's a solid pairing once you get the comms sorted.