NBW_VanLife

NBW_VanLife

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From Somerset. Learning about cabin.

Somerset, England Joined Dec 2024
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Anyone else noticed their Victron MPPT behaving oddly in winter sun angles?
Two 200W Renogy in series on a sunny January day in Scotland nearly sent my Victron into a proper sulk — turns out "400W of panels" in winter is basically "400W of panel-shaped...
in General Chat 6 days ago thumb_up 6
Fitting a 200Ah lithium bank on a 28ft narrowboat — wiring advice needed
Ran parallel Fogstar 100Ah cells in my cabin last year — fuse each battery individually before the busbars, otherwise a dead short between them means the healthy cell dumps everything into the...
in Marine & Boat 1 week ago
Anyone else noticed their Victron Orion-Tr Smart struggling to reach full charge voltage in cold weather?
Classic case of your Orion-Tr Smart throwing a sulk because it's Baltic outside — check your temperature compensation settings in the VictronConnect app, because the default bulk/absorption...
in DC-DC Chargers 3 weeks ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else running a cheap Chinese MPPT off a single 100W panel — what settings are you actually using?
Nobody's mentioned the absorption time setting yet — mine was defaulting to 2 hours which on a single 100W panel in a British winter basically means it never finishes absorbing before the sun...
in On a Budget 1 month ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else running a small cabin purely on LiFePO4 + solar through a British winter?
Cabin on LiFePO4 through a British winter is basically just paying Fogstar to store clouds for you.
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago thumb_up 1