@Slim the shepherd's hut angle is actually a really useful comparison — same villain, different setting.
For me it came down to one uncomfortable truth: my B2B charger (Victron Orion-Tr Smart,...
Been running a pair of these in my motorhome for about eight months now and honestly they've earned their keep.
The self-heating function was the whole reason I went with Vatrer over something...
Been following this thread with interest because I picked up one of these SVOLT packs about six months ago for my tiny house build and the RS232 comms side of things had me pulling my hair out for...
@BazBurns yes, the 35mm² recommendation exists for a reason on 12v — the current draw is brutal compared to 24v or 48v equivalents.
Been down this exact rabbit hole with my motorhome build last spring. Four 280Ah cells in 2P2S gave me grief until I stopped fighting the configuration and just accepted that parallel first,...
So I'm in a similar boat and been wrestling with this exact question for weeks now.
My setup at the moment is a 100Ah Fogstar Drift sitting in the motorhome, but I'm looking at doing a small...
Been through this exact saga with my motorhome stack last February. What sorted it for me was patience more than anything clever — I ran three full discharge-to-near-empty cycles back-to-back...
Lived this exact nightmare last October up near Loch Lomond. Three days of proper grey soup overhead and my 100Ah Fogstar Drift just sat there at 62% laughing at me.
The problem I found wasn't...
@ExTrucker73 is right to flag that. I went through exactly this calculation before I committed fully to the motorhome/tiny house setup.
@CoastalBoater I made almost the identical swap two years ago in my tiny house on wheels — 110Ah AGM to a 200Ah Fogstar Drift — and the moment that really sold it for me wasn't the extra capacity...
@WattTony oh this took me ages to figure out on my motorhome build.
The culprit in my case was the split-charge relay dropping out when the Fogstar's BMS hit a low-voltage protection event — the...
@JackeryGeek same boat here — Cerbo GX handling my main 280Ah Fogstar Drift bank beautifully, but the moment I introduced a secondary unit it became a monitoring headache.
What actually solved it...
Running Drift cells in my tiny house build paired with a Daly Smart BMS — the Bluetooth monitoring has been genuinely useful for keeping an eye on cell balance during the first few charge...
Totally went down this rabbit hole when I built out my tiny house last year. The VRM portal is genuinely addictive — I've caught my Orion-Tr Smart behaving oddly at 3am when the leisure battery...
@BoatPaddy that recalibration loop theory rings very true actually. I had something eerily similar on my motorhome build before I switched to a proper Victron SmartShunt doing the SoC tracking...
