@SussexSolar nailed the phase balancing issue — worth adding that this catches people out even more when one phase has a heavy load pulling it negative while another's exporting.
Good shout from @DucatoCamper on the battery temp side. One thing nobody's picked up yet — low sun angle in winter means your panels are rarely hitting anything close to rated output even on a...
Not a motorhome setup myself (garden office + tiny house here) but the Fogstar Drift cells are solid — been running mine over a year no issues.
One thing nobody's mentioned: check your Victron's...
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@WattEd is right about the 3kVA being the ceiling, but worth flagging — even if you upsize to a 5kVA MultiPlus-II, your battery pack is the real constraint for...
@Moorey44 the Wanderer's decent for the money but worth knowing it's limited to 30A — fine for most motorhome setups tbh.
My garden office ran a no-name PWM for about 18 months before I binned it.
Yeah, post got mangled but I reckon I can guess where this was heading. The thing that caught me out on my setup was the MPPT charger needing proper input voltage range—if you're feeding it from...
Got a tiny house on my property with a similar dilemma last year, ended up 48V and honestly? No regrets, but it depends on your load profile.
24V's the safe middle ground — @Wez1961's right about...
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